CASTRO Mid-Century Infused Edwardian
This quintessential San Francisco Edwardian, built in 1908, gracefully marries original architectural details with iconic mid-century modern furnishings, an important art collection and global-flavored accents. The client, who lives with her husband and has three grown children, is granddaughter of renowned modernist architect Edward Durell Stone, designer of Radio City Music Hall and the original New York Museum of Modern Art. We had previously completed a remodel of the 1,700 square-foot house, and she returned to us eight years later to reinvigorate the living, dining and family rooms.
The client has an active lifestyle. Although retired from a long career, she’s very involved in politics, and often hosts fundraising events at home. Vintage mid-century furniture, paintings, sculpture and heirloom collectibles anchored each room, from which our design unfolded. An international traveler, she was drawn to our Lotus Bleu Market accessories, which added a global dimension to her modern and heirloom staples.
The living room features an original Paul McCobb daybed, which faces teak lounge chairs reupholstered in a geometric trellis fabric. Sheathed in luxurious ochre velvet, the daybed is a focal point and sports an array of boldly graphic accent pillows of varying size, pattern, texture and color. Large-scale suzanis from our Istanbul market collection play off contrasting scale and hues.
Adjacent to the fireplace, the wood framed cabinet with woven doors is by her grandfather Edward Durell Stone. Designed with William Fulbright for a project in the South, she actually found it on 1st Dibs at a dealer right in her own neighborhood. Artistic talent in the family spans generations with her father also a well-known landscape architect and her daughter Lily Koch, an artist, whose large abstract pink canvas (a self-portrait) hangs above the sectional.
A vintage Hans Wegner teak table and Kai Kristiansen chairs, the latter refurbished in an ochre textile, dress the dining room. The large-scale gilded mirror belonged to her great-great-great grandfather from his house in Tennessee in the 1860’s. Passed down from her grandmother, it reflects the iron candle chandelier and lights this otherwise dark space. In the same room sits an antique Balinese carved wooden horse, inherited from her father. We added texture to the room with a custom charcoal sisal area rug, and red grasscloth shade in the single window.
In the lively family room, two lounge chairs covered in a whimsical mid-century botanical print established the color palette for the space. Set against vivid orange walls and overlooking the garden, spring green, gray, and orange accent the room. Facing the chairs, a denim-colored sofa covered in a performance fabric is styled with custom pillows and a cozy cotton throw from our Ethiopian Market collection.
