Oct 14, 2009 with Comments 0
The Luxury Marketing Council of San Francisco is honored to have as its members, the Bay Area’s most talented interior designers. May we present…
Pictured Left to Right: Nancy Zerella (Zerella Designs), Brian Dittmar (Brian Dittmar Design), Claudia Juestel (Adeeni Design Group), George Brazil (SagreraBrazil Design), Joel Robare (JR Studio), Candace Barnes (Candace Barnes Antiques), Cecilia Sagrera Hill (SagreraBrazil Design), Stephen Suzman (Suzman & Cole Design Associates) Not pictured: Ruth Livingston (Ruth Livingston Studio)
-Photographed in the Gaul Searson show room at the San Francisco Design Center by Jay Cellini
Claudia Juestel, founder and principal of Adeeni Design Group, creates lasting interiors that are inspired by their owners’ unique sensibilities. First and foremost an artist, she has a deep understanding of historic and modern architecture.
Her European upbringing amongst a family of artists, craftsmen and musicians, and her passion for art, fine living, and travel have given her a broad sensibility that is infused with exoticism and subtle eccentricities. She has designed projects all over the Bay Area, also in Carmel, Palms Springs, Portland, OR, London, England, New Delhi, India and on Guam, in styles ranging from the decidedly traditional to the definitely modern.
Adeeni is a Yoruba word meaning “royal people”, which seemed a fitting name for a company owned by someone who believes in making your home your castle, and that every client should be treated like royalty.
Adeeni Design Group is a full-service design firm specializing in residential and small commercial interiors. As part of the company’s guiding business principles, Adeeni Design Group continues to give back to the community, hosting yearly internships with rising interior design students, mentoring high school students, and playing an active role in fundraising events such as Elle Decor’s “Dining by Design,” a benefit for DIFFA. Claudia Juestel also sits on the board of CARE THROUGH ACTION.
BRIAN DITTMAR DESIGN is a creative studio providing services for interior and exterior spaces. For more than 15 years, Brian has strongly focused on creating well turned-out, timelessly livable environments which most importantly reflect each client’s life and style.
Brian’s design aesthetic and approach to the process are heavily influenced by his long-time passion for art and architecture. From a young age, he honed his interest in classical furniture and furnishings, specifically grandfather clocks, by exploring the world-renowned collections of the Wintherthur Museum, near his childhood home in Wilmington, Delaware. While still in high school, he apprenticed for a kitchen design firm where he managed his first kitchen renovation project.
Brian has appeared on HGTV and his work has been featured in San Francisco Chronicle, California Home + Design and Home. Also a graphic designer, he has worked for clients including Stanford University, Chronicle Books and Lincoln Center. Most recently he art directed the design blog The Style Saloniste. He lives in San Francisco with his partner, Paul, and their pug, Moe, whose constant fur-shedding has become Brian’s most challenging design-around.
Candace Barnes is a nationally recognized designer and antiquarian with a beautiful showroom in the design center of San Francisco, which showcases mostly 18th century through 21st century continental antiques, along with her own furniture line. The juxtaposition of these items creates a unique look and “signature style” which has been most recently recognized by receiving the award from California Home and Design magazine for the best showcase room in the San Francisco Decorator Showcase House of 2008.
Candace has a degree in Interior Design/Architecture from Syracuse University so is able to create interiors from structural renovations through to a fully realized beautiful customized interior. She has had many illustrious clients and worked with them to create individual expressions unique to them. Having been the designer for HGTV’s “Curb Appeal” where she was able to use her abilities with landscape design and exterior color, she brings a complete talent to any project.
http://candacebarnes.1stdibs.com/search.php
Joel Robare is the owner and Principal Designer of JR Studio Design, an interior architecture and design collaborative creating inspired environments for living and working. JR Studio Design employs a life+style driven approach to client projects, creating interiors that are both deeply personal and highly functional. Accordingly, Joel first takes the time to fully understand each client’s individual needs and style preferences through interviewing and coaching exercises. The results are then applied to develop interiors that are a true expression of each client’s unique point-of-view, even if their particular preference was unscripted at the start! Joel’s favorite quote is, “Truly successful design speaks to the soul through the eyes.” He has taken this to heart, expertly combining his client’s own furnishings with inspired new accompaniments. The results? Creative environments that are fresh yet familiar to the people they envelope and a pleasure to the senses! His interiors are described as inspired, sophisticated, eclectic and “comfortably artistic.”
JR Studio handles comprehensive design services, short term consultations with trade-only pricing privileges, custom fabrications and interior remodeling in the Bay Area and Chicago. Joel’s has an academic background in business management, interior architecture and fine art and he personally enjoys adventure travel and culinary exploration.
Established in 1980, Ruth Livingston Interior Design is a full service residential and commercial design firm.
Ruth Livingston, an internationally award-winning designer, has been collaborating since 1980 with architects, fine artists and craftsmen to create complete concept luxury interiors, gracefully integrating the sensuous lines of natural forms with modern simplicity, resulting in exceptionally elegant organic interior spaces.
We offer our clients a wide range of exciting design approaches and innovative solutions, created to accommodate individual budgets and lifestyles.
Combining the diverse experience and design talents of our staff, we welcome the challenge of collaborating with architects, artists, and craftsmen in the creation of highly complex and unique design solutions utilizing sustainable materials and an environmental sensibility.
We provide drafting, space planning, construction support, project management, lighting design, custom furniture and cabinetry design, and professional assistance in the selection and purchase of works of art.
We offer complete staging and marketing assistance of high-end unique residential properties, including model home design services.
Ruth Livingston’s storefront gallery occupies an elegant space in downtown Tiburon, California. On display are items from the Ruth Livingston Studio Collection, gifts & accessories for the home in glass, ceramics, and wood, as well as unique objects handpicked on travels to Asia & Europe.
SagreraBrazil Design is a full-service residential and commercial design firm providing custom interior, furniture, and lighting designs for a diverse roster of clientele.
Being know for our versatility, and blending of multicultural influences to create innovative and approachable environments, we are continually inspired by our unique backgrounds, family experiences and life adventures.
We specialize in a unique design process that begins with a Master Plan, allowing each room its own integrity while enhancing the overall vision of the total space and living environment.
We take pride in our attention to detail, design aesthetic and impeccable service, which always results in a unique design reflective of our client’s personalities and lifestyles.
SagreraBrazil Design welcomes projects of all sizes, from small scale remodeling to large-scale renovations and new construction.
Our mission at Suzman & Cole Design Associates is to design places of great beauty that are stylistically diverse, functional and restorative, reflecting and preserving the unique historic, cultural and environmental characteristics of its’ settings. SCDA is deliberately non-iconic. We design site specific and architectural appropriate solutions, while paying careful attention to our clients’ program and taste.
What sets Suzman & Cole Design Associates apart is our commitment to excellence and service, exceptional craftsmanship, imaginative use of materials and our innovative horticultural palettes. Our understanding of design, the environment, art and economics allows us to regard constraints as exciting challenges that spark creativity and ensures that our designs will be responsive to the land as wells as for the current and future needs of its’ users.
Nancy Zerella is the Executive Producer of The Design Narrative™ – an extraordinary format for a worldwide, multi-media conversation about design. Currently in development, the interactive Web Property will allow users to become engaged in the world of design as never before; hear from a wide variety of national and international creators and innovators, and browse relevant material edited by leading journalists as they seek to highlight authenticity and excellence in design.
After almost three decades of being involved in design – first in fashion sales and marketing and then as an interior designer, Nancy is propelling the stories behind great design to the forefront. The discussion around the very best of American design and using the individual journeys of these creators inspires the continuation of excellence in design, synergies and collaborations which points to luxury – the best of the best.
American media is bringing consumable design home to a mass audience focused on the final product and how to acquire it. Through The Design Narrative™, users will finally have the chance to examine innovation and learn what makes creators tick. “I continue to marvel at the passion that comes from within every designer when they tap into their authentic talent. I am fascinated with this process and where it begins and I wanted to find a way to share this with the world. We can all relate to having an idea…”
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