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Knuts 4 Knots by Lisa Davidson Wissink

On a recent stroll through the Mission, we caught Lisa Davidson Wissink's "Knuts 4 Knots" show (sadly, only through the window on the shop's closed day). Selected for display at the much-loved Curio...

Behind-the-Scenes Garden Photos by Scott McFarland
What Were the Skies Like

If you love gardens and you aren't yet a regular reader of Stephen Orr's blog, What Were the Skies Like, then we highly recommend you remedy that situation right away. A former editor of the late Hous...

Community-Supported Artwork: Art in a Box... the New CSA

Subscriptions aren't just for magazines and newspapers anymore. If you're a San Franciscan, chances are good that you subscribe to a CSA, Community-Supported Agriculture, which delivers a box of local...

Willow Branch Structures from Pescadero's Willow Farm

click thumbnails for larger picsOn a recent visit with our four-year-old nephews, we brought them to the Bay Area Discovery Museum and found ourselves enchanted by the giant maze and tunnel made from...

Etsy Find: Crafterall's Wall Topos

We came across these one-of-a-kind topographic pieces and were instantly drawn to them. Upon further inspection, these one-of-a-kind, hand-cut pieces are at once beautiful and inspired. The land and t...

Passe Partout Photo Frame Clock at Dutch By Design

Twelve frames of various depths, dimensions and thicknesses make up the "numbers" on this clock. Pictured as it is with graphic artwork instead of photos makes it a standout wall feature, but it's e...

Cheap Pete's

We get asked all the time about inexpensive ways to frame art. Our answers have run the gamut from super-cheap, cheap, inexpensive, and on and on. But, for some reason Cheap Pete's has never been pro...

Look! Coasters as Art

(Hello again to Jessica who is trying out for the SF team. Her first post is here.) Artist Tom Woodbridge does two-minute portraits of people on the backs of coasters at his local brewpub. He gave me...

Carmel Bay Company

Carmel Bay Company has been around for as long as we can remember -- and it's always been a go-to place for great home furnishings and gifts. Every single time we set foot in the door we leave with...

Wild about Marushka

We can't remember the first time we came across Marushka prints, but we do know that it was love at first sight. And we know we're not alone. In fact, two homes we've featured in recent AT House Tours...

Olio

It's not often that you come upon a shop that so boldly declares its raison d'etre over the door. And Olio is nothing if not fun. An old house full of "kitschy, eclectic, and cool stuff," stepping t...

FezQ

Tucked away in a little courtyard in downtown Carmel, Fez Q was like a little oasis when we stepped in out of the rain. We were greeted by bright colors, succulents and other plants, unusual floral a...

Janakos & Company

Yesterday we stopped in at one of our favorite Peninsula shops, Janakos & Company. The Burlingame store first drew our attention when ...

Bae

We admire the way Bae's co-owner, David Caler, describes himself: "a weird guy who likes weird things." One's own quirky taste is the most important guiding light you can have when taking on an aesthe...

Rare Device

Rare Device is one of our favorite stores. We were so excited when they opened last October. Rare Device carries beautiful and unique products, and the store is a wellspring of creative and inspirat...

Philippa Roberts

Philippa Roberts is our favorite home and gift store on Piedmont Ave. Philippa herself is a jewelry maker by trade, so you can also see her work at her shop. In addition to jewelry from both Philipp...

Egg & the Urban Mercantile

As egg & the Urban Mercantile say on their website, they are "one of San Francisco’s most unique purveyors of sublime and refined household goods." We couldn't have said it better ourselves. Every...

Lost Art Salon

Lost Art Salon owners Gaetan Caron and Rob Delamater Buying artwork, whether purely for aesthetics or as an investment, can be an intimidating process. Thankfully, those of us in the Bay Area who are...

Sarah Stocking Fine Vintage Posters

Excelsior & Eureka Cycles by Moore (1895) Sarah Stocking has thousands of high-quality original vintage posters from all over the world. Most of the posters date to the early 1900's, although there ...

La Petite Chaise

About a year ago, La Petite Chaise moved from Mountain View's Castro Street and set up shop in a funky little space right across Central Expressway. Until recently they held sales just one weekend a ...

Hayes Valley: Furniture and Design Shop Tour

San Francisco is completely saturated with furniture and design shops... and it can be a bit difficult to wade through it all. Because of this, we took the time to go to one of our favorite neighborh...

Room 4

We've been excited about Room 4 for some time now - each time we passed by it seemed there was something new in the window that we absolutely need to take home with us. Well it's now officially opened...

Rose and Radish

It's been over two years since we updated our Rose and Radish shop listing, so we took a trip there last week to give you the scoop on what's happening in one of our favorite Hayes Valley boutiques. ...

Modern Artifacts

Modern Artifacts is a postwar art & design shop located on Market Street in (or near) Hayes Valley. The store's owner has been collecting and refurbishing mostly mid-century modern vintage furniture,...

The Gallery: Deborah Cushman

When we first wrote about Sonoma-based painter Deborah Cushman, we didn't know that she'd worked as a textile designer in New York, or that she studied under Elmer Bischoff and Joan Brown (of the Bay ...

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