Sumner Design Studio

I went to the San Francisco Decorator Showcase yesterday.  Overall, I was quite impressed.  The rooms were a bit more low-key than they have been in past years, and they actually seemed to relate to each other, which is unusual for a show house.  My favorite space was the entry/staircase/upper hallway, which was done by designer Nicole Hollis.  She presented the rooms as a cabinet of curiosities, and she did an amazing job with it.  This is what you saw when you walked into the house:

I love this.  There was another, smaller cabinet of curiosities in the upstairs hallway, and framed butterflies and beetles on the walls of the stairway:

That mass of flowers you see on the left was a huge “chandelier” made of vines, flowers, and butterflies that went down the center of the stairwell.  What I don’t have a photo of, but absolutely loved, was the photo at the top of the stairs – you turned the corner and right in front of you was a huge black & white photo of a tiger snarling at you.  Very surprising and very cool.  It was kind of a dark look for the show house, and I really enjoyed seeing it.