Culinary icon Cecilia Chiang, who brought authentic Chinese cuisine to San Francisco and the United States, passed away at 100 on October 28th. In 1961, she took a small space on Polk Street and opened The Mandarin Restaurant, introducing diners to Szechwan and Hunan dishes accompanied by an excellent wine list.
Read MoreWhile Covid focuses our attention on private spaces, public places are equally crucial to our well-being. Mark Cavagnero and his eponymous award-winning firm concentrate on this external world, working on projects for the arts and culture, science and technology, education, civic, and master planning.
Read MoreEvery October, COUPAR looks forward to attending The San Francisco Fall Show Opening Night Gala at Fort Mason Center, featuring the best in international art, antiques, and design but that, like so many other events this year, needed to be canceled. The show will take place virtually this year from October 16th through October 25th.
Read MoreInterior 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.
Read MoreEmail 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.
Read MoreSan 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.
Read MoreDo 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.
Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreMartin 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.
Read MoreNow 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
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.
Read MoreFor COUPAR'S third posting on Quarantine Culture, we look at films about isolation, physical, psychological, or both.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreInterior 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."
Read MoreNow 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.
Read MoreSince 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.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreCOUPAR 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.
Read MoreHow 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.
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