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SUMMARY:Dynamic Minds\, Brilliant Inspiration: Sausalito Design and Architecture Studio Study Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon immersed in the studios of two interior design firms and one architectural firm. Three of the most distinctive creative studios in the Bay Area — The Office of Charles de Lisle\, Studio Collins Weir\, and Luca Pignata Studio — open their doors in Sausalito for a directed studio study tour. Each visit is a private\, structured\, in-depth presentation by the firm’s principals\, with access to working studios and ongoing projects that reveal how exceptional design is made. \nBestselling author and design journalist Diane Dorrans Saeks leads the afternoon\, guiding conversation and drawing out the ideas\, processes\, and inspirations that define each practice. Attendees walk and carpool between studios along Sausalito’s celebrated waterfront — at the intersection of architecture\, craft\, and the luminous landscape that shapes it all. \nThe day concludes with a private reception hosted by Luca Pignata\, where participants meet the architects and designers\, enjoy refreshments\, and extend the afternoon’s inspirations into the early evening. \nThe Office of Charles de Lisle \nThe Office of Charles de Lisle is a highly admired multidisciplinary design firm based in Sausalito\, California. The international work encompasses interior design\, handcrafted custom furnishings\, product design\, and the decorative arts. Founded in 2008\, the studio operates on the conviction that great design\, paired with quality manufacturing\, produces environments that are lasting and truly singular. The firm brings a rare maker’s sensibility to every project: partners grounded in studio art\, art history\, architecture\, and industrial design collaborate closely with clients to craft spaces alive with beauty\, originality\, inspired color\, textiles\, art\, and bespoke custom work. Projects span California\, New York\, Hawaii\, Mexico City\, Montana\, Nova Scotia\, and beyond. \n“I’m inspired by my clients\, and the extraordinary artists and craftspeople we work with. When clients are involved and interested in the design and design process\, the interiors become more about story than about image.” — Charles de Lisle \n                 \n  \nStudio Collins Weir \nStudio Collins Weir is the collaborative practice of designers Susan Collins Weir and Chris Weir\, recognized for interiors that fuse a strong foundation in art history and architecture with an exacting attention to craft\, textiles\, and bespoke detail. The studio’s work reflects the belief that a home should come together as a holistic\, warmly individual environment — one that honors the specificity of each site\, client\, and collection. Studio Collins Weir creates masterful design with refinement and elegance. Custom furnishings\, professional craft\, and considered material choices are the hallmarks of every project. \n“The layering of epochs is quintessential San Francisco — a city racing towards the future while looking over its shoulder to the past.” — Susan Collins Weir \n“We design spaces to be minimal in form and materially rich. Our decor is quite modern and every detail is considered. We work to contrast the classical detailing of the space\, reinforcing the qualities of both. We further heighten this juxtaposition of classical and modern by lining the room with contemporary art and the clients’ collections.” — Chris Weir \n                      \n  \nLuca Pignata Studio \nOriginally from Northern Italy\, architect Luca Pignata came to Northern California three decades ago. Working at the studio of legendary Napa Valley architect Howard Backen\, Pignata developed a practice rooted in the conviction that architecture must carry meaning and purpose. His studio\, opened in Sausalito\, is guided by the principle that the buildings we admire are those that celebrate values we hold important. The architect’s essential tools are honesty\, curiosity\, passion\, and deep respect for culture\, nature\, and the environment. \n“I have always been inspired by the thinking of Vitruvius\, the great Roman architect\, who believed that architecture should be composed of the triple essence: strength\, utility\, and aesthetic effect. And there is a phrase from Stendhal that I love: ‘Beauty as promise to happiness.’ How else do you create happiness but through beauty and kindness?” — Luca Pignata \n                 \n  \n  \n\nAbout the Seminar Leader \nDiane Dorrans Saeks is a San Francisco-based design journalist\, editor\, and the author of twenty-six books on architecture\, design\, travel\, and style\, published by Rizzoli\, Chronicle Books\, and others. Her most recent Rizzoli titles include Jean-Louis Deniot Interiors and Parisian by Design. She is Design Editor of PaperCity magazine and a co-founding editor of Metropolitan Home and C Magazine California Style. Diane has traveled to more than 110 countries as a working journalist and has presented her Dynamic Minds\, Brilliant Inspiration design seminars — intimate\, behind-the-scenes studio visits with leading architects and designers — for more than fifteen years\, in affiliation with Design Bay Area and San Francisco Design Week. \n  \n\nAttendees walk and carpool between the three studios along the waterfront.\n\n\nADDITIONAL SEMINARS:\nLearn more about other events in the series – \nJune 6\, 1pm-5pm:  SoMa San Francisco\nStudio visits to Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects  and BAMO .Participants will converse\, meet\, discuss ideas\, and meet the designers and architects. \nJune 20\, 1pm too 5pm: San Francisco\nA studio visit is led by best-selling author Diane Dorrans Saeks at Kuth/Ranieri Architects  with guest architect Anne Fougeron\, FAIA  ·  Fougeron Architecture. The day closes with a convivial reception: bites\, sips.
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SUMMARY:Dynamic Minds\, Brilliant Inspiration: SoMa Architecture and Design Studio Study Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a rare afternoon inside two of San Francisco’s most accomplished and internationally admired studios — Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects and BAMO — in the city’s SoMa district. This studio visit is a private\, structured presentation by the firm’s principals and staff\, with full access to studios\, works in progress\, and the ideas and processes that define work of the highest caliber. \nLed by design author and journalist Diane Dorrans Saeks\, this seminar is designed for designers\, architects\, students\, and all those who are passionate about architecture and design at the top level. \nDynamic Minds\, Brilliant Inspiration is Diane Dorrans Saeks’s acclaimed series of structured design seminars\, presented in association with Design Bay Area and San Francisco Design Week. Each event offers an intimate\, directed afternoon of studio visits led personally by Diane — with structured presentations by principals and staff\, access to studios\, workshops\, and materials libraries\, and a private reception to close the day. \n  \nStanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects \nStanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects is one of San Francisco’s most original and internationally recognized architectural practices. Founded by  noted architect Stanley Saitowitz\, the firm is known for work of conceptual clarity\, structural precision\, and enduring formal intelligence. Projects range from significant cultural and civic buildings to inventive residential design\, each distinguished by a commitment to light\, materiality\, and the relationship between built form and human experience. The studio’s influence extends well beyond San Francisco: it is a practice that has shaped the conversation of contemporary architecture. \n.            .             \n  \nBAMO \nBAMO is one of the world’s preeminent interior architecture and design studios\, with a distinguished body of work spanning luxury hotels\, private residences\, and bespoke hospitality spaces across five continents. Founded in San Francisco in 1991\, the firm has built an international reputation for environments of exceptional refinement — spaces that respond with complete fidelity to their location\, their client\, and their purpose\, while achieving a level of craftsmanship and beauty that is unmistakably BAMO’s own. In residential work\, BAMO brings the same exacting attention to material\, light\, and detail that defines its hospitality interiors — creating private homes of enduring character and singular elegance. The firm’s principals command an unusually wide range of historical reference\, artisanal tradition\, and material culture\, qualities that have made BAMO the choice of the world’s most discerning private clients as well as its finest hotel brands. Among BAMO’s most celebrated projects is the Villa Feltrinelli on Lake Garda\, widely regarded as one of the great hotel interiors in Europe\, alongside Passalacqua\, most recently named the World’s Best Hotel\, and Capella Bangkok\, ranked among the top three hotels globally. Other major projects include the Peninsula Chicago and Four Seasons Hotels in Bora Bora\, Carmelo\, Houston\, and Milan\, as well as distinguished works in Florida\, South America\, and Thailand. \n              .             \n\nAbout the Seminar Leader \nDiane Dorrans Saeks is a San Francisco-based design journalist\, editor\, and the author of twenty-six books on architecture\, design\, travel\, and style\, published by Rizzoli\, Chronicle Books\, and others. Her most recent Rizzoli titles include Jean-Louis Deniot Interiors and Parisian by Design. She is Design Editor of PaperCity magazine and a co-founding editor of Metropolitan Home and C Magazine California Style. Diane has traveled to more than 110 countries as a working journalist and has presented her Dynamic Minds\, Brilliant Inspiration design seminars — intimate\, behind-the-scenes studio visits with leading architects and designers — for more than fifteen years\, in affiliation with Design Bay Area and San Francisco Design Week. \n  \n\nADDITIONAL SEMINARS:\nLearn more about other events in the series – \nJune 5\, 1pm-5pm:  Sausalito\nStudio visits to The Office of Charles de Lisle\, Studio Collins Weir\, and Luca Pignata Studio. Participants will converse\, meet\, discuss ideas\, and meet the designers and architects. \nJune 20\, 1pm too 5pm: San Francisco\nA studio visit is led by best-selling author Diane Dorrans Saeks at Kuth/Ranieri Architects  with guest architect Anne Fougeron\, FAIA  ·  Fougeron Architecture. The day closes with a convivial reception: bites\, sips.
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/dynamic-minds-brilliant-inspiration-soma-architecture-and-design-studio-study-tour/
LOCATION:1022 Natoma Street San Francisco.\, 1022 Natoma Street\, San Francisco.\, 94103\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Exceptional Studio Afternoon: Architecture\, Ideas\, and Inspiration with Kuth/Ranieri and Anne Fougeron\, FAIA
DESCRIPTION:The Afternoon \nThis is a rare afternoon — an immersive encounter with three of San Francisco’s most distinguished architects\, in an exceptional studio. From 1:00 pm\, participants gather at the North Beach studio of Kuth/Ranieri Architects for an exclusive illustrated presentation of the firm’s international body of work\, followed by an in-depth guided tour of the studio: models\, drawings\, materials\, current projects\, and the full arc of a remarkable thirty-five-year practice. \nMid-afternoon\, award-winning architect Anne Fougeron\, FAIA\, will deliver a vivid illustrated presentation of her career — her built work\, her award-winning residences\, her theoretical projects\, and the dramatically original unbuilt works that have shaped her thinking. \nThe day closes with a convivial reception: bites\, sips. There’s time to discuss ideas and inspirations from the afternoon\, explore career paths\, and speak directly with Anne Fougeron\, who has taught architectural design to graduate and undergraduate students at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where she served as a lecturer and visiting professor. \n\nThe Host Studios \nKuth/Ranieri Architects \nKuth/Ranieri Architects was co-founded by Elizabeth Ranieri\, FAIA\, and Byron Kuth\, FAIA\, in San Francisco in 1990. With studios in San Francisco and the Boston area\, the firm has earned a national reputation for works of architecture that integrate environmental stewardship\, craft\, and contemporary design thinking across a remarkable breadth of scale and program — from meticulously considered private residences to major civic and public infrastructure. \nThe firm’s portfolio spans single-family homes\, community buildings\, public park pavilions\, and international airport terminals. Kuth/Ranieri’s landmark projects include Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport — developed in distinguished collaboration with Gensler and a consortium of leading firms\, and recipient of the 2023 Summit Award from the IIDA Northern California Chapter — as well as significant contributions to Chase Center\, the Golden State Warriors’ arena in Mission Bay. The firm co-founded the Deep Green Design Alliance\, a cross-disciplinary collaborative focused on design solutions that address the environmental challenges shaping our global future. \nKuth/Ranieri Architects is a San Francisco certified woman-owned business enterprise. Their sustained commitment to sustainability\, community\, and architectural intelligence has made them one of the Bay Area’s most admired and enduring practices — one whose work speaks with equal authority across the intimate scale of a private home and the civic scale of a great public building. \n  \n“In a world obsessed with an international cast of ego-driven starchitects\, San Francisco architects Elizabeth Ranieri\, FAIA\, and Byron Kuth\, FAIA\, are the thoughtful\, versatile\, low-key\, detail-obsessed exceptions.” \n— Diane Dorrans Saeks  ·  Opening epigraph\, Kuth/Ranieri Architects monograph\, Princeton Architectural Press \n“We seek to enrich the human experience by crafting engaging spaces that are timeless and of our time.” \n— Kuth/Ranieri Architects \n              \n\nGuest Architect \nAnne Fougeron\, FAIA  ·  Fougeron Architecture \nAnne Fougeron\, FAIA\, is the founder and principal of Fougeron Architecture\, one of San Francisco’s most consistently celebrated and intellectually rigorous design practices. Raised in France and the United States\, she attended Wellesley College and completed her graduate studies in architecture at the University of California\, Berkeley — where she has since returned to teach\, serving as a lecturer and visiting professor. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects\, a distinction awarded to fewer than three percent of registered architects in the United States. \nSince founding her practice in 1986\, Fougeron has built a body of work that is at once formally rigorous and deeply humane. Her projects span private residences of exceptional distinction — among them the Fall House in Big Sur\, the Suspension House\, and the Wavelet House\, both recipients of the American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum and multiple international prizes — alongside civic\, cultural\, multi-family\, and healthcare buildings. The firm has received more than fifty design awards and been published in more than two hundred international publications. Princeton Architectural Press describes her approach as one that “embraces architectural opportunities found in opposition\, creating buildings that redefine program\, reinvent historical building types\, and reinvigorate civic centers.” \nCentral to Fougeron’s practice is the conviction that architecture is a social art — that beautiful\, rigorous design should be accessible to all\, and that buildings can carry genuine ethical and civic weight. Her published monographs include Fougeron Architecture: Opposition/Composition (Princeton Architectural Press) and Framing Light (2024). \n  \n“While I am a tried-and-true Northern Californian\, my work often brings me to Los Angeles and the neighboring areas. And as an architect\, I can’t help but notice what’s around me. Modern architecture is often painted as elitist — as if efficient design can’t also be good design. Buildings can be useful while still being beautiful.” \n— Anne Fougeron\, FAIA  ·  Fougeron Architecture\, San Francisco \n               \n\nAbout the Seminar Leader \nDiane Dorrans Saeks is a San Francisco-based design journalist\, editor\, and the author of twenty-six books on architecture\, design\, travel\, and style\, published by Rizzoli\, Chronicle Books\, and others. Her most recent Rizzoli titles include Jean-Louis Deniot Interiors and Parisian by Design. She is Design Editor of PaperCity magazine and a co-founding editor of Metropolitan Home and C Magazine California Style. Diane has traveled to more than 110 countries as a working journalist and has presented her Dynamic Minds\, Brilliant Inspiration design seminars — intimate\, behind-the-scenes studio visits with leading architects and designers — for more than fifteen years\, in affiliation with Design Bay Area and San Francisco Design Week. \n  \n*Note: This is a Professional presentation. Not suitable for guests under 16. \n\nADDITIONAL SEMINARS:\nLearn more about other events in the series – \nJune 5\, 1pm-5pm:  Sausalito\nStudio visits to The Office of Charles de Lisle\, Studio Collins Weir\, and Luca Pignata Studio. Participants will converse\, meet\, discuss ideas\, and meet the designers and architects. \nJune 6\, 1pm-5pm:  SoMa San Francisco\nStudio visits to Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects  and BAMO .Participants will converse\, meet\, discuss ideas\, and meet the designers and architects. \n 
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/an-exceptional-studio-afternoon-architecture-ideas-and-inspiration-with-kuth-ranieri-and-anne-fougeron-faia/
LOCATION:Kuth/Ranieri Architects\, 725 Greenwich Street\, San Francisco\, 94113\, United States
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