Step Inside a Radically Reimagined San Francisco Stunner Designed by Nicole Hollis | Architectural Digest

One tablet makes you bigger, and one tablet makes you small. If homes got here with a soundtrack, the groove for this historic San Francisco manse would certainly be psychedelic. Radically re­imagined by AD100 designer Nicole Hollis, the mind-bending abode pays tribute to town’s progressive cultural legacy in addition to the audacious tastes of Hollis’s purchasers. “It’s Grateful Lifeless meets Burning Man meets Marrakech meets Victorian posh, with a beneficiant dose of up to date design and artwork,” Hollis says, tracing the flowery internet of influences that converge on this hallucinatory imaginative and prescient of contemporary hippie-luxe. “I needed to convey rock and roll into the lifetime of the home, not simply as an utilized gloss however as a part of its DNA,” she provides.

Much less florid than San Francisco’s Victorian-era Painted Girls, the Colonial Revival–model dwelling was designed by architect Edward John Vogel and in-built 1897. Its location within the storied Haight-Ashbury district positioned the home on the rainbow-bright heart of Sixties counterculture, the period when Gene Estribou, a earlier home-owner, opened a recording studio on the dwelling’s attic stage. The Grateful Lifeless laid down a few of their earliest tracks there, as did Quicksilver Messenger Service, Steve Miller Band, and different mandarins of the San Francisco sound.

Working with Richard Beard Architects, Hollis utterly remodeled the home, basically demolishing the interiors and reinventing them with a better sense of symmetry in addition to lodging for a up to date kitchen and beneficiant baths and closets. Beard additionally designed a trim trendy addition to the again of the home for the brand new kitchen and household room on the principle stage, a bar and screening room beneath, and bedrooms on the ground above. “The first façades—the entrance and one of many sides—had been sacred, in order that a part of this system was extra of a pure restoration,” Beard explains. “For the inside, we didn’t wish to ape Colonial Revival or some other interval model, however we tried to be sympathetic to the unique construction by way of proportions and supplies. Nicole and the purchasers had already established a singular aesthetic for the home, and our job was to assist fulfill the imaginative and prescient.”

That aesthetic was nothing wanting sensational. Drawing on the mixed skills of craftspeople from across the globe, Hollis and her group detailed the rooms with a staggering array of bespoke architectural particulars and ornamental appliqués that nod to the purchasers’ obsession with rock and roll and hippie drug tradition, their fascination with conventional Moroccan design, and their seemingly unquenchable thirst for dazzling coloration and sample. These passions discovered expression in plaster moldings carved with marijuana leaves and peace symbols; intricate trelliswork and grilles handmade in Morocco; a complete program of customized bronze {hardware}, made by the Belgian firm Van Cronenburg, which contains motifs of pot leaves, mushrooms, and hearts, interpreted in a language redolent of Eastlake model and the Aesthetic Motion; and a spectacular vary of ornamental portray and finishes executed by Los Angeles–based mostly Londubh Studio, together with glow-in-the-dark stenciling within the spouse’s kaleidoscopic dressing room and pictures drawn from classic acid tabs that seem within the ornamental borders within the husband’s trippy workplace.