04/24/2026
San Francisco Decorator Showcase House, 1984
We’re revisiting San Francisco Decorator Showcase’s ongoing legacy and the 2026 class of designers who continue its tradition.
A large painting by Brian McPartlon (BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1973) imagines California as gestural abstraction…a deliberate contrast to the room’s classical architectural detailing.
The carved, gilded, and hand-painted frame is from a Russian Hill artisan.
The floor lamp by Phoenix Day, (a Jean-Michel Frank design for Templeton Crocker’s penthouse in San Francisco), acknowledges the room’s design inspiration.
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