February is Black History Month, and COUPAR celebrates trailblazing African American architect Paul Revere Williams' prolific career. Nicknamed the "Architect to the Stars," Williams shaped the Hollywood landscape designing elegant, perfectly proportioned mansions for gilded celebrities like Tyrone Power, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, and Lucille Ball.

Do you remember going to parties? In the pre COVID world of Hollywood in the forties, fifties, and sixties, entertaining was gloriously hedonistic. The backdrop for many of these gatherings were homes designed by the architect to the stars John Elgin Woolf.

COUPAR's Galleria location affords us not only a catbird seat to everything happening in the design community but also a link to San Francisco's urban history. The San Francisco Design Center developed in the 1970s when the once industrial South of Market air smelled pungent with the acrid scent of commerce.

In contrast to his partner Sister Parish's love of chintz and needlepoint, Albert Hadley had a disciplined modernist eye. Hadley believed in "never less, never more," for his elite clientele at Parish-Hadley.

With the San Francisco Fall Show, the bay area's premier art and antique fair around the corner, (October 3rd to 6th), COUPAR wanted to acknowledge one of the city's great arbitrators of taste, Anthony Hail.