Book Signing Jubilee: The San Francisco Fall Show

COUPAR is proud to be the sponsor of the Book Signing Jubilee at The San Francisco Fall Show. With publications from over twenty experts in architecture, design, and the decorative arts, it will be hard to make a selection. One of the many books we are excited to peruse is Michael S. Smith – Designing History: The Extraordinary Art & Style of the Obama White House. Smith began his career with the late San Juan Capistrano antiquarian Gep Durenberger and worked in association with New York designer John Saladino. Launching his own company Michael S. Smith, in 1990, his curator's eye distills the best of European tradition with modernist America. When the Obamas sought a designer for their private White House quarters and later the public rooms, Smith was the natural choice to create a restrained yet approachable elegance.

Keeping in the vein of extraordinary, interior designer and San Francisco Fall Show Chair Suzanne Tucker will be on hand to sign and chat about her new monograph, Extraordinary Interiors. Tucker, the protegee of design legend Michael Taylor, opened Tucker & Marks in 1986 with Timothy Marks, her business partner and future husband. The California native's knowledge of the industry is not limited to the West Coast but expands nationally and globally through her travels, speaking engagements, industry affiliation, and books. Extraordinary Interiors reflects Tucker's passion for timeless architecture, design, and the decorative arts.

Diane Dorrans Saeks, San Francisco- based author of design books, The Style Saloniste blog, and arbiter of taste, brings us Parisian by Design: Interiors by David Jimenez. Jimenez, an American in Paris, shows Francophiles how to decorate their home in an authentic Parisian style wherever they reside. The designer lives in a 19th-century apartment near the Champs-Élysées with 14-foot ceilings, architectural moldings, a hand-carved marble fireplace, and a light-filled living room. Against a neutral backdrop, Jimenez juxtaposed French antiques with modern furnishings, layered art, sculptures, vintage vases, decorative boxes, and books.

What is a home without a soul? Jorge S. Arango's monograph, Soul: Interiors by Orlando Diaz-Azcuy, explores the elegantly minimalist projects that have made the Cuban-born designer one of America's most revered practitioners. San Francisco-based Diaz-Azcuy infuses his modernist interiors on the West and East Coasts with Latin sensuality. Leaving Castro's Cuba in 1962, he earned an architectural degree in Washington DC, moving to the University of California at Berkeley for degrees in Landscape Architecture and City & Regional Planning. Before opening Orlando Diaz-Azcuy Design Associates in 1987, he worked alongside fellow design legends Lawrence Halprin and Arthur Gensler.