Originally published on 7×7.com

Two years ago, with a winery to manage and a baby on the way, April Gargiulo didn’t have time to walk a designer through the reimagining of her high-rise apartment in SoMa.

In interiors darling Catherine Kwong, Gargiulo found someone who was able to intuit her needs. “It was as if she had stolen my file of tear sheets of vintage case goods and postmodern lamps,” Gargiulo says. Co-owner of Gargiulo Vineyards in Napa, she craved a refined urban feel in her city home: “I wanted a space where I could envision Yves Saint Laurent and Yoko Ono having a conversation.” One enlightening phone call and a quick visit to the space, and Kwong was off and running, vision boards inspired by Parisian salons and swanky ’70s lounges in tow.