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A Designer and a Gentleman: John Wheatman
Interior designer, educator, author, and gentleman, John Wheatman, passed away at 94 on September 26. Living on the ground floor of 2500 Steiner Street, the elegant Art Deco tower soaring over Pacific Heights, Wheatman created edited interiors, restrained yet poetic.
Why Do a Newsletter?
Email marketing has always been a beneficial tool, but recently it has become invaluable. Newsletters are one of the best ways to connect with your professional community, increase leads, and boost social media and website visitors.
Remembering Ann Getty
San Francisco has lost its grand patron of the arts and culture; on September 14th, Ann Getty passed away at 79 from a heart attack. Mrs. Getty, a striking couture figure attending the Symphony, Opera, and San Francisco Fall Show galas, generously opened up the Broadway mansion she shared with her husband, Gordon, to help raise funds for charities.
John Elgin Woolf: Architect to the Stars
Do you remember going to parties? In the pre COVID world of Hollywood in the forties, fifties, and sixties, entertaining was gloriously hedonistic. The backdrop for many of these gatherings were homes designed by the architect to the stars John Elgin Woolf.
Kesha Franklin of Halden Interiors’ Effortlessly Elegant Spaces
New York, full-service design firm, Halden Interiors is attracting well-deserved attention from all corners of the design industry. Founded and led by talented principal designer, Kesha Franklin, Halden is transforming a wide array of commercial and residential spaces on both coasts.
Anatomy of a Room: Martin Young’s First Showcase
Martin Young, founder, and principal designer, of Martin Young Design, is honored to participate in the 2020 San Francisco Decorator Showcase. This year has had its constant curveballs, but the Showcase and its designers seamlessly adapted to ensure the show continued even during the pandemic.
Take 10 With Showroom Owner Greg McIntyre
Now that the San Francisco Design Center has closed, reopened and closed again during the Pandemic, how are showrooms coping? COUPAR checked in with Greg McIntyre, CEO of Shears & Window, to find out.
Form + Field Designs Retail Spaces for Ayesha Curry
The talented Ayesha Curry, actress, cooking television personality and cookbook author wanted to relaunch her Homemade lifestyle brand with a curated pop-up shop. Curry collaborated with San Francisco Interior Design firm, Form + Field, to bring this vision to fruition opening for a month in 2019.
Aperture Cellars: Wine, Art, and Architecture
COUPAR'S client Grassi & Associates recently completed construction on Aperture Cellars situated in Healdsburg, California. The brainchild of youthful, wine professional, Jesse Katz, the compound provides a unique visual experience.
Misery Loves Company: Isolation in Film
For COUPAR'S third posting on Quarantine Culture, we look at films about isolation, physical, psychological, or both.
How Designers & Creatives Help During the Pandemic: Face Masks
As COVID continues to persist and face coverings remain a constant in our everyday lives, why not make them a fashion statement? While COUPAR diligently follows proper precautions, Krista Coupar, our CEO, and Founder, wanted to ensure that each of her employees stays safe and stylish by sending everyone a variety of bespoke masks.
Designer Phillip Silver: A Sense Of Timelessness
Interior designer Phillip Silver reflects on his nearly four-decade career "In all my work, I try to achieve a sense of timelessness, I'm not a great follower of instant trends."
Take 10 With Stonemason Ed Westbrook
Now that the Shelter in Place order is gradually lifting in California, how has it impacted master stonemasons QuarryHouse and their projects? We checked in with the company's co-founder and CEO, Ed Westbrook, who manages not only a regional staff but also an international one during the pandemic.
The Power of the Process: Designing with Intention
Since COUPAR’s inception, developing a sound process has always been at the forefront of our business. The design industry focuses on the value of aesthetics, but process and practicality can often be absent. Firms have individuals with an innate sense of creativity, which is undeniably an integral part of the business, but systematically approaching these visions is crucial.
Viva Las Vegas: Film in Sin City
As the days, weeks, and months blur, we still need escapist entertainment and what better source than films about the city where day becomes night and night becomes day? Las Vegas, home town to COUPAR founder and CEO, Krista Coupar.
Cultivating Community During a Crisis
COUPAR has always found great worth in the San Francisco design community. Now its members show unwavering support and empathy for one another both online and off while we Shelter in Place.
Take 10 With Designer Suzanne Tucker
How will Shelter in Place affect interior design ultimately? COUPAR touched base with San Francisco interior design icon Suzanne Tucker of Tucker & Marks Design and Suzanne Tucker Home to get her unique perspective.
Website: Your Virtual Calling Card
Now, as we "Shelter in Place," your website is more than ever your virtual calling card. How is yours looking? Does it reflect your brand, what you have accomplished, and where you want to take your company? COUPAR, as a design consultancy firm, creates websites that showcase your portfolio and succinctly narrate your story.
COUPAR: A Company Built to Work Remotely
As we hunker down and begin to brave the COVID-19 storm, we are all adjusting to a new normal. The design industry is undoubtedly changing by the day, like many others, but it’s crucial not to panic. As a consulting agency, COUPAR is here to assist you in evaluating what your firm needs in this current climate and how to move forward.
Quarantine Culture: Film in San Francisco
We are in week two of the shelter-in-place order to contain the coronavirus. How do we keep ourselves, families, and friends entertained now that staying in is the new going out? Why not enjoy some quarantine culture with movies set in San Francisco?