The 47th annual San Francisco Decorator Showcase — a design event and home tour that invites several top Bay Area designers to transform an exceptional home in the city — will be open to the public from April 25 through May 25. Several Sonoma County design professionals participated in this year’s showcase, offering fine art inspiration and expert in-home design to thousands of visitors.
The site of this year’s home tour, which raises funds for the San Francisco University High School financial aid program, is an 1897 Queen Anne Victorian in Pacific Heights, designed by architect Moses J. Lyon.
San Francisco design firm Maker & Moss transformed a diminutive space into a study inspired by what a 19th-century traveler might collect. The A-frame room is covered in a rosy Oonsai wallpaper with vintage imagery; draped with gauzy, grid-pattern curtains; and lined with low-profile, built-in bookshelves. A cadmium-yellow chaise lounge provides a playful if not showstopping counterpoint to the scheme.
A modern painting by Petaluma abstract artist Lisa Lightman served as inspiration in the design. The yellow in Lightman’s piece “Highway 101 in The Morning” was a natural match for the punchy-colored chair, according to principal Maker & Moss designer Briana Tunison, who worked on the room with the firm’s founder, Matt Bissinger. Several of Lightman’s pieces are placed throughout the space.
A bathroom designed by San Francisco firm AubreyMaxwell, and built by Perez Construction, features linear ochre tiles — handmade by Healdsburg-based McIntyre Tile — in the shower and on the vanity surrounding the mirror, which is punctuated by lantern-like fabric sconces. The richly clean look is contrasted with smoky colored floor and trim terrazzo tiles by Sonoma Tilemakers.
Alexander Nikban of Studio Alexander handpicked a variety of McIntyre tiles to give dimension and color to a “moody” shower and bathroom that, he said, “overlooks the greatest view in the world.”
Cranes and willow branches on House of Hackney wallpaper inspired Sonoma Interiors’ “Birds of a Feather” bedroom and en suite bathroom. Principal designer Andrea Halkovich tapped Healdsburg-based Sandra Jordan Prima Alpaca for drapery with lines of feather-like fringe. The cream-colored curtains — hanging from Tuell & Reynolds bronze curtain rods — give a playful and airy quality to the weighty ornamentation of Victorian millwork and the carob-colored wallpaper.
The Cloverdale-based, fine art-furnishings firm Tuell & Reynolds also lent their modern fire grate and other fireplace accessories to the hearth, which Halkovich had refaced in a clean-lined Tadelakt, creating another light and modern counterpoint to the rich aesthetic.
Halkovich credits the team of generous and talented collaborators for the outcome of the room, including Aguilar Stone’s expert installation of an arched marble shower entrance; contractor Dominic Dotto’s dedication to the design; and Sonoma designer and Halkovich’s high school friend, Heather Kearsley Wolf, who provided a linen bedcover in a quiet beige. The experience wraps up with a Wine Country Chocolates truffle that Halkovich hands out to visitors — a sweet, sumptuous finish that recalls the richness of the room.
Fernando Castellanos of Castellanos Interiors designed the “Red Bedroom” and “Red Dressing Room.” Although boldly accented, the “Red Bedroom” is decidedly tranquil with cream-colored walls and grand-but-airy sculpted glass chandeliers by Berkeley artist Cliff Hersh. The design’s red palette is influenced by views of the Golden Gate Bridge through the room’s turret windows.
Red Sandra Jordan alpaca curtains, shimmery brick McIntryre tile on the dressing-room plinths, and high-gloss red paint in the entryway and cocktail room bring unabashed color that counterbalances the dramatic Rosso Venezia marble fireplace, sourced by showcase sponsor Da Vinci Marble. The look is complemented with artful greenery from House of Botanicals in Santa Rosa. Dramatically shaped trees and succulents sit in concrete hourglass and half-dome vessels, relics of 1960s Europe, that are the work of late Swiss furniture designer Willy Guhl.
47th Annual San Francisco Decorator Showcase, 2315 Broadway St., San Francisco. April 25 – May 25, Tuesday through Sunday; closed Monday, except for Memorial Day. $45-$55. For tickets and information, visit decoratorshowcase.org.