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Classic Blue: A Timeless Hue Heralds The New Year
What color will shape the design world in 2020? Pantone announces their Color of the Year Classic Blue. The decorative arts have favored this celestial and spiritual shade throughout the centuries.
Autumn Harvest: A Time for Reflection
Autumn is a season that provides an opportunity to pause and reflect on not only personal fruitfulness of the past months but professional as well. What does your marketing look like and what’s your plan for 2020?
Mediterranean-Style Oasis: San Francisco Decorator Showcase 2020
COUPAR is always excited to learn the location of the annual San Francisco Decorator Showcase. The 2020 venue will be at 22 · 22nd Avenue, situated in the city's West Clay Park neighborhood.
Take Ten With Isolina Mallon
Isolina Mallon, a Spanish native, is the principal of a full-service interior design studio based in the San Francisco Bay that specializes in high-end modern residential design.
Quality of Craft: Sister Parish Design’s Vreeland
Sister Parish Design prides itself on hand, silk-screening their textiles and wall coverings in the United States. The work of the hand and quality of craft is apparent in every yard produced.
Classic and Contemporary: Sister Parish Design
Sister Parish Design takes Albert Hadley and Sister Parish's favorite fabric and wall covering designs and translates them for today's interiors. Recolored and redesigned the patterns and colorways combine classic with contemporary.
The Disciplined Modernist: Albert Hadley
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.
Green Investments: Sustainable Design
The importance of understanding the value in sustainable, ethical design and why it’s not only recommended but, vital for improving the future state of our environment.
Chic as Sin: Designer Anthony Hail
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.
Designer Saturday Lunch & Lecture at the San Francisco Fall Show
Join ICAA Northern California Chapter Lunch & Lecture to honor interior designer Timothy Corrigan.
A Peek Behind the Curtain: QuarryHouse's Stone Shop
Do you ever wonder what happens in a Stone Shop? COUPAR, along with other design professionals, had the privilege to visit QuarryHouse’s Richmond, California workshop.
How to Get Your Projects Published
There are a lot of Do’s and Dont’s when it comes to pitching so we’re giving you a complete guide to editorial pitching for the design industry.
In Memoriam: Kirk Phillips
On May 22, the San Francisco Design Center honored the memory of Kirk Phillips with a celebration of his life in the atrium of the Galleria.
2019 San Francisco Decorator Showcase
This year's San Francisco Decorator Showcase is a classical Beaux-Arts mansion located in Presidio Terrace. Designed by architect Frank S. Van Trees in 1904 for wool merchant Marcus Koshland and his wife, Cora, the estate is a designated San Francisco and Nationally Registered Landmark.
The Art of Architecture
In March, COUPAR attended the opening soiree of “The Art of Architecture." Held at Jackson Square's Arader Galleries, the show featured architect Geddes Ulinskas' colorful watercolor renderings of his projects.
The Art of Architecture
In a world of computer-guided renditions, Coupar salutes "The Art of Architecture," at Arader Galleries in Jackson Square. The retrospective features the illustrations of three prominent San Francisco architects; Andrew Skurman, Ken Linsteadt, and Coupar client Geddes Ulinskas.
Design San Francisco Festivities
In February, we celebrated the San Francisco Design Center's premier event: Design San Francisco. The annual conference showcases the best in interior design talent from local to international.
Fog Design + Art or Paris Déco Off?
January has two dueling design events: San Francisco's Fog Design + Art and Paris Déco Off. The former runs from January 16th to the 20th, the later is January 17th to 21st.
The Sun, The Moon, & The Stars
Coupar visited this year's San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show celebrating Celestial Imagery in Art, Antiques & Design. Held at the Festival Pavilion in Fort Mason Center this October the show featured approximately 60 dealers from across North America and Europe, offering an extraordinary range of fine and decorative arts from around the world.
Fall Art & Antiques Show: Decorating with Art & Antiques
During the San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show, Coupar had the privilege to attend an incredible panel discussion, focused on Decorating with Art & Antiques.