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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?
Addendum: The Julia Morgan Awards Postponed
The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Northern California Chapter (ICAA Northern California) in response to COVID-19 has decided to postpone the Julia Morgan Awards, until further notice. Every other year ICAA Northern California holds a juried competition to acknowledge excellence in classical and traditional design.
The Evolving Freelancer: California's New “Gig Economy” Law
California has enacted a new “Gig Worker Law,” AB5, designed to extend employee classification and regulate companies that hire gig workers in large numbers. What does this mean for freelancers and employers in the design industry?
The Galleria: From Industrial to Design Mecca
COUPAR's Galleria location affords us not only a catbird seat to everything happening in the design community but also a link to San Francisco's urban history. The San Francisco Design Center developed in the 1970s when the once industrial South of Market air smelled pungent with the acrid scent of commerce.
The Curated House: Michael S. Smith in Conversation with Suzanne Tucker
Design San Francisco is just around the corner (Feb 5-6, 2020), and this year's keynote speaker will be Santa Monica based interior designer Michael S. Smith. Held in the Galleria Atrium of the San Francisco Design Center, Smith will be sharing his thoughts about the curated house with San Francisco interior design icon Suzanne Tucker, of Tucker & Marks Design.
C OUPAR Studio: A Unique and Unrivaled Experience
What do designers get when they engage with COUPAR's Studio team? One of the most distinctive elements of our design team is that we are there when you need us and gone when you don't.
Celebrating Modernism: 2020 FOG Design+Art
As a counterpoint to October's San Francisco Fall Show, which focuses on art and antiques, San Francisco recently enjoyed January's FOG Design+Art Fair dedicated to Modernism in design and visual arts.
COUPAR Classic: 2020 San Francisco Decorator Showcase Marketing
The vetting process for the 2020 San Francisco Decorator Showcase is right around the corner. For the esteemed design professionals selected for one of the 29 spaces in the West Clay Park estate, we recommend our COUPAR Classic Showcase Marketing Package.
Think Nationally Act Regionally: The Changing Face of Design Magazines
It’s no secret that the media landscape for interior design magazines is in the midst of a sea change. Regional magazines and franchisees with regional issues are a dark horse in the publication race.
Classic Blue: A Timeless Hue Heralds The New Year
What color will shape the design world in 2020? Pantone announces their Color of the Year Classic Blue. The decorative arts have favored this celestial and spiritual shade throughout the centuries.
Autumn Harvest: A Time for Reflection
Autumn is a season that provides an opportunity to pause and reflect on not only personal fruitfulness of the past months but professional as well. What does your marketing look like and what’s your plan for 2020?
Mediterranean-Style Oasis: San Francisco Decorator Showcase 2020
COUPAR is always excited to learn the location of the annual San Francisco Decorator Showcase. The 2020 venue will be at 22 · 22nd Avenue, situated in the city's West Clay Park neighborhood.
Take Ten With Isolina Mallon
Isolina Mallon, a Spanish native, is the principal of a full-service interior design studio based in the San Francisco Bay that specializes in high-end modern residential design.
Quality of Craft: Sister Parish Design’s Vreeland
Sister Parish Design prides itself on hand, silk-screening their textiles and wall coverings in the United States. The work of the hand and quality of craft is apparent in every yard produced.
Classic and Contemporary: Sister Parish Design
Sister Parish Design takes Albert Hadley and Sister Parish's favorite fabric and wall covering designs and translates them for today's interiors. Recolored and redesigned the patterns and colorways combine classic with contemporary.
The Disciplined Modernist: Albert Hadley
In contrast to his partner Sister Parish's love of chintz and needlepoint, Albert Hadley had a disciplined modernist eye. Hadley believed in "never less, never more," for his elite clientele at Parish-Hadley.
Green Investments: Sustainable Design
The importance of understanding the value in sustainable, ethical design and why it’s not only recommended but, vital for improving the future state of our environment.
Chic as Sin: Designer Anthony Hail
With the San Francisco Fall Show, the bay area's premier art and antique fair around the corner, (October 3rd to 6th), COUPAR wanted to acknowledge one of the city's great arbitrators of taste, Anthony Hail.
Designer Saturday Lunch & Lecture at the San Francisco Fall Show
Join ICAA Northern California Chapter Lunch & Lecture to honor interior designer Timothy Corrigan.