San Francisco Style: Design, Decor, and Architecture - Hardcover

Diane Dorrans Saeks is the California editor for Metropolitan Home, the interior design editor for PaperCity, the San Francisco correspondent for W and Women's Wear Daily, and a frequent contributor to national and international design publications. She

David Duncan Livingston has nearly twenty years of experience as a professional interior photographer. His photographs of interiors, garden designs, and food are featured in numerous books as well as in national and regional publications. He makes his home

Architecturally, San Francisco style encompasses elements ranging from Victorian to modernist. Aesthetically, it varies, yet some driving forces persist; namely, "personal style, individuality and dream-fulfillment." In this lush volume, Saeks, California editor of Metropolitan Home, explores some San Francisco homes that are perfect examples of that variety and sense of distinctiveness. She begins with a Pacific Heights residence that overflows with historic grandeur (think museum-worthy giltwood mantles and a sumptuous George II armchair) and then moves on to a South of Market loft that epitomizes the "polished ideal of city living": refined raw silk shades, a "chandelier" made of paper and wire, a bathroom floored in teak decking. There’s also a Nob Hill apartment, accented with a calm and subtle décor; a charming Sausalito cottage; and an Oakland Hills home stocked with furniture and decorative accessories created by its owners. The interiors Saeks chooses to highlight are overwhelmingly high-end yet, regardless of readers’ aspirations, the book will surely remind them of the rewards of taking an innovative approach to design.
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