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San Francisco Event: Open Houzz at DWR
Architects, Designers, Builders and others in the Bay Area Design Community, You are invited to the OPEN HOUZZ event this September 1, at 2299 Alameda Street, San Francisco, CA.
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Short Takes: Taken for Granite – A Curbside Tale
For the past week, the San Francisco DPW has been tearing up the sidewalk outside of our office, with an ear-splitting racket – and wasting some of the greatest material around. Whatever happened to San Francisco’s “green” values? Aren’t reclaiming and reuse the bedrock, as it were, of sustainable principles?
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Short Takes: I’ll be speaking at the Wooden Window Showroom about Social Media.
The good folks at Wooden Window host a monthly Community Breakfast networking event for those of us in the Design and Construction professions.
Next week, Wednesday August 1, I will be giving a short presentation about how I use Social Media in my practice, and why.
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Modern on a shoestring: How to spend less than $75,000 and completely change your home.
Last summer, I purchased a home in Napa with my partner, Anne Fougeron. Most of the existing style choices were an abomination to our modernist sensibilities.
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Short Takes: San Francisco Moment #2- the Non-Bay Window
My favorite Bay Window in San Francisco….
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Short Takes: a Taliesin Pilgrimage
Last week I visited Taliesin for the first time and was surprised in ways that I would not have guessed. The place has a ramshackle, cocky attitude, sophisticated and homespun at the same time.
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Short Takes: San Francisco Moment: I’m Dying to be an Artist….
Today I accompanied some Real Estate friends to look at a building for a prospective client, to get a sense of the “lay of the land”.
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Short Takes: The Houzz phenomenon profiled in the WSJ.
“I like warm modern!” I’ve heard such pronouncements before from clients, only to find out weeks later that we were not communicating at all, and that my idea of “warm modern” is their idea of a sanitorium.
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Short Takes: Restaurant Purgatory in San Francisco.
Last tuesday I heard San Francisco Planning Director John Rahaim speak to the San Francisco AIA Chapter.
