Beats by Dr. Dre's pro-style headphones

Zahid Sardar

Ammunition, the award-winning San Francisco company that former Apple creative director Robert Brunner founded, has reprised its success with...

Capture Totale - back up your better-skin pledge

Did you make a resolution to take better care of your skin? Even if you didn't, the revamped Capture Totale serum and perfecting crème promise...

Curvaceous corkscrew made with Golden Gate steel

Sarah Adler

San Franciscans, wine lovers and span-o-philes of all stripes can all find something to love about the Laguiole Golden Gate Bridge corkscrew...

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Jan. 12 Pruning workshop - Mimi Clarke, Filoli Gardens' former head horticulturalist, will conduct workshops on rose pruning as part of the rose...

New home design coffee table books

Molly Glentzer

The idea of a house as a "comfortable" place didn't take root until after the 18th century, according to Bill Bryson's exhaustively researched...

Custom Chanel, an almost 'only in S.F.' experience

Carolyne Zinko

Count on Chanel, where the ready-to-wear apparel is practically as coveted as its haute couture, to offer up something even more personalized...

Talbot Runhof plays off hide-and-seek philosophy

Carolyne Zinko

It's hard to imagine an electrical engineer and a fashion designer going into business together in Germany and creating glamorous gowns for...

How to top the tableaux at Dining by Design?

Jennie Nunn

It's one thing to set the table for a Thanksgiving meal for family, but what about setting up 36 artistically themed tables for 10 within a day...

Fashion Your Mind fundraiser helps cancer patients

Carolyne Zinko

It's a long way from a sewing class to a runway show, but you've got to start somewhere, as any fashion designer knows. Just ask Karen Caldwell...

Clocks and watches with distinctive appeal

Zahid Sardar

A young New York design firm with the humble name of Rich, Brilliant, Willing is forging a reputation for invigorating ubiquitous objects such...

PlumpJack ski and sportswear show a wonderland

Sylvia Rubin

Smiling models on the runway? That was the first indication that this fashion show would be more fun than usual. It's ski season - a stellar one...

The Tiffany hue a clue to first accessory line

Sylvia Rubin

One color says it all. So when luxe handbag designers John Truex and Richard Lambertson created their new handbags for Tiffany - the company's...

Little Sisters of the Poor gain a big helping hand

Catherine Bigelow

The pristine, white marble floors of Neiman Marcus echoed with laughter, live music and even bore a spill, or two, of red wine on Nov. 19 as...

Sleek, eco-smart fireplaces light up a room

Wendy Ilene Friedman

Hot trends come and go in interior design, but the increasing array of bold, colorful and unusual fireplaces is reigniting interest as a focal...

Maximilian Riedel tours SFMOMA exhibition on wine

Sarah Adler

Among the many oenophiles visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's new "How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now" exhibition...