Style & Design / Maryann LoRusso

Holiday Hostess Gifts That Will Knock Their Stockings Off

While it's considered a no-no to show up at a holiday party empty-handed, it can be challenging to come up with something new and meaningful every year. For inspiration, we asked some of San Francisco's most influential style makers and consummate hosts to tell us what they like to bring to the season's soirees.

Marina Times • 1st June 2014

Design Fusion On Display

A highly anticipated annual event, the San Francisco Decorator Showcase outdid itself this year as an array of local talent transformed a 9,000-square-foot Presidio Heights mansion into an eclectically chic abode. At once edgy and earthy, trendy and traditional, the house at 3660 Jackson Street embodied a range of styles as diverse as the city itself. Dozens of the Bay Area’s top interior and landscape designers prepared the elegant red brick house, built in 1907 by Bliss & Faille, the architec