I’m always amazed how many leading designers tell me they rely on Room & Board for their clients’ city apartments, country houses, mountain cabins, as well as new apartments, new guest quarters, as well as Hawaiian retreats and luxury penthouses. For a low-key company, they have a passionate following in the design trade’s top talent.
So I was honored to be invited recently to host a luncheon for a super-talented group of San Francisco’s leading designers, all Room & Board fans.
This week, I’m giving you a tour of my Room & Board favorites, and you’ll see who was at the lunch…along with the super-special cuisine served by Sylvan Mishima Brackett of Izakaya Rintaro and formerly with Chez Panisse.
It was a vivid and lively lunch, lots of fun, and a tasty one in every sense.
Come and join the fun—and see who was there and my favorite picks of new product.
Celebrating a New Collection, and Designers to Watch
I recently hosted a celebratory luncheon at Room & Board in San Francisco, with a dazzling group of interior designers and architects.Here’s the invitation:
Celebrating Designers To Watch
Please join Diane Dorrans Saeks, best-selling design author, and magazine editor, and founder of the influential blog The Style Saloniste, along with Jeffrey Houston, manager of Room & Board San Francisco, for a luncheon and presentation to view the new 2017 collection. Diane will share her favorites from new products, while Jeffrey will discuss the latest trends.
A custom-designed Bento box lunch and dessert will be created by esteemed chef Sylvan Mishima Brackett of Rintaro.
We gathered for a delicious lunch, and for vivid conversations and dazzling discussions. Several of the designers had just been selected to create rooms at the 2017 San Francisco Decorator Showcase (opening end of April).
I presented my picks from the newest Room & Board collections—and after lunch, everyone lingered on to chat, catch up, and to view the sunny showrooms, vignettes, and arrays of accessories and rugs.
Oh, and to touch and feel the new Indigo collections, and the hand-woven wool blankets that are all exclusive to Room & Board (a designers’ secret).
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| Brenda Mickel and Kathy Best |
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| Angela Free and Matthew Leverone |
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| Jean Larette, Martin Korbus and Beth Martin |
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| Diane Dorrans Saeks and Catherine Kwong |
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| Jonathan Rachman, PR Consultant Coralie Langston-Jones and Chris Eskra |
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| Martin Young and Catherine Kwong |
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| Ben Dhong |
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| Jamie Belew |
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| Julie Lloyd |
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| Room & Board San Francisco Manager Jeffrey Houston and PR Consultant Coralie Langston-Jones |
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| Martin Korbus, Susan Collins Weir and Chris Bergin |
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| Jonathan Rachman and Heather Hilliard |
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| Angela Free and Maria Tenaglia |
Designers We Celebrated
Barbara Chambers Sofia Shu Escribano
Carolyn Pfaff Chris Eskra
Ian Stallings Heather Hilliard
Kathy Best Carlo Ablaza (R&B)
Martin Korbus Martin Young
Angela Free Julie Lloyd
Coralie Langston-Jones Ben Dhong
Catherine Kwong Diane Dorrans Saeks / Host
Jeffrey Houston (R&B) Jean Larette
Jon De La Cruz Matthew Leverone
Beth Martin Brian Dittmar
Jonathan Rachman Susan Collins Weir
Heather Robertson (R&B) Maria Tenaglia
Kelly Hohla Chris Bergin
David Diaz Nick Larson
Brenda Mickel
For the Love of Indigo: Gouro Vintage African Textiles
Room & Board recently introduced a very compelling series of West African Indigo textiles are hand-loomed by artisan weavers in Burkina Faso and Mali, using traditional techniques. The newest products include pillows, throws, wraps, decorative yardage, and lengths of versatile dyed cotton fabrics.Thesel textiles are crafted from narrow strips of cotton fabric that are hand-woven on personal looms in the western countries of Africa.
The narrow strips are stitched together then dyed in indigo using a paste- or stitch-resist technique to create unique patterns. Originally used as clothing or blankets, these textiles can be used as throws, bed coverings or as striking wall hangings.
New Collections with Lasting Power
1. Patterns and textures
2. Leather collection—very fantastic
3. American craftsmanship
4. Rugs
5. Indigo—great for city, beach, country, mountains, desert
6. Handblown glass lighting
7. Pillows
About Room & Board
Founded in 1980, Room & Board’s philosophy is that good design should be: modern, beautiful, affordable and long-lasting.
Dedicated to sustainability, more than 90 percent of its collection is made from natural materials by American artisans.
With designs for furnishing a residence of any style or a business setting, the company offers a straightforward and uncomplicated shopping experience, expert design guidance. Room & Board has stores in Minneapolis, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Boston, and online at www.roomandboard.com.
Dedicated to sustainability, more than 90 percent of its collection is made from natural materials by American artisans.
With designs for furnishing a residence of any style or a business setting, the company offers a straightforward and uncomplicated shopping experience, expert design guidance. Room & Board has stores in Minneapolis, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Boston, and online at www.roomandboard.com.
685 Seventh Street
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415.252.9280Showroom manager: Jeffrey Houston
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Credits:
PHOTOGRAPHY:
All Room & Board products and showrooms images courtesy of Room & Board.
Luncheon and designers photographed by Brett Wickens.
Celebratory designer lunch images at Room & Board, San Francisco.
CUISINE AT LUNCHEON:
Sylvan Mishima Brackett, Izakaya Rintaro, San Francisco.
http://izakayarintaro.com
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