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SFLuxe: Ken Fulk’s Peep Show Revealed

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Peep Show Gallery

Ken Fulk recently opened his new retail shop with the usual pomp and circumstance we all have come to expect of him. Peep Show, a 3,000 sf concept store housed on the ground floor of his 7th Street warehouse, is stocked with unique furnishings, accessories, art and fashion, put together by the multi-talented designer in the same uncompromising, iconoclastic manner with which he approaches interior design.

The selection is full of contradictions, from the formal, such as bespoke menswear by Chado Ralph Rucci, bowties handmade from vintage Hermès scarves, and Wedgwood basaltware, to the attractively lascivious, expressed in monogrammed leather “love-slappers,” linen cocktail napkins embroidered with abbreviated classified ads, all paying homage to the building’s history as a former S & M leather factory, and the unapologetically bizarre, such as light fixtures made from taxidermy animals.

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SFLuxe: Jingle & Mingle 2010

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Detail of Wreath by Tish Key Interior Design (Photo: Michael Bello)

Children of Shelters, founded in 1995 to help children living in transition and in shelters, assists an estimated 4,000 homeless children.  Their two annual holiday events, Jingle & Mingle and Santa Fest are their major benefits to finance programs such as back-to-school clothing, one-on-one tutoring, college and secondary school tuition assistance and more.

This year the Board of Directors, Lois Pavlow, Serena Fairchild Sheldon, Summer Tompkins Walker, Sarah R. Moore, Heidi Castelein, Alison Kiley, and Kate Sheridan Chung, along with their board members, organized their tenth Jingle & Mingle event.  It brought together San Francisco’s society and design community to cheer the holidays and to raise money in them most creative of spirits.

Held at the historic Presidio Officers’ Club guests got to bid on some of the most creative and stunning holiday wreaths while enjoying wines and cocktails and tasting hors d’oeuvres from various San Francisco restaurants.

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SFLuxe: Old Is New Again: Restoration Hardware Now in San Francisco

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Gary Friedman, Douglas Durkin, Ed Hardy

Many months ago when Ed Hardy first told me over dinner at my home that he sold his iconic building to Restoration Hardware and that he would be somehow involved beyond the sale of the property. But he could not divulge anything more at that time.

Once the design community became abuzz with the news a few curious eyebrows were raised. One of San Francisco’s most prominent antique showrooms housed in one of the most beautiful buildings in the San Francisco Design Center would become the new home of Restoration Hardware? For many that was hard to imagine.  After all renowned antique dealer Ed Hardy has always been known for selling some of the most exquisite antiques.   At times the value of one single piece in his gallery may have bought a few rooms full of Restoration Hardware furniture. Would it be like Ford taking over Jaguar? How would such polar opposites avoid collision and instead inspire collaboration?

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