UPCOMING EVENTS

California Homes Design House Casa California

Casa California, a Design House of Distinction, presented by California Homes and benefiting the Philharmonic Society of Orange County is a new home by Finton Construction in the exclusive community of Irvine's Shady Canyon featuring the work of seventeen top designers from Orange County and Los Angeles.

The house evokes the glamour and sophistication o the Wallace Neff period with an emphasis on timelessness and contemporary sensibility. Proceeds benefit Philharmonic Youth Music Education Programs.

With our expert guides, we will follow the development of Venetian art from its beginnings at Torcello and San Marco, where Byzantium still lives, to the emergence of the Renaissance, and then to the peak of Venetian art and architecture in the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

Public tours are daily, except Monday, from 10AM to 4PM. Extended hours to 9 PM on Thursdays enable visitors to meet the designers. Tickets for any day and time: $30 per person until October 12 and $35 thereafter; special Design House Pass for unlimited entry for one person is $40 i purchased by October 2 and $45 at the door.

Free parking with complimentary shuttle service from the upper lot of Quail Hill Community Park, 35 Shady Canyon Drive (entrance off 405 freeway at Shady Canyon exit).

Buy Tickets
For tickets and information: 714.840.7542 or visit www.PhilharmonicSociety.org

San Francisco Fall Antiques Show
 Egyptomania: Nile Style in the Decorative Arts
Supporting Sponsor: California Homes Magazine

Location: Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
www.sffas.org

2009 Preview Party Benefit Gala
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7-9pm

The Lecture Series Features

Thursday, October 29, 11:15am
From Tut to Today: The Antiquities Culture Wars
Sharon Waxman, Author, Journalist, and Editor-in-Chief of TheWrap, Los Angeles
Presenting information reported in her book Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World (Times Books, Henry Holt and Co., paperback edition 2009). Book-signing to follow.

Thursday, October 29, 2:30pm
Fit for a Pharaoh: Jewels in the Egyptian Style
Carol Elkins, Senior Vice President, Sotheby’s Jewelry Department, NY
Elkins will consider the “Egyptomania” phenomenon as it pertains to jewelry design, while referencing a wide variety of imaginative and colorful masterpieces of the genre, from antiquity to present.

Friday, October 30, 11:15am
Of Sphinxes and Sofas: Reviving and Reimagining Antiquity
Emily Evans Eerdmans, Design Historian and Author, NY
Showing examples from her book Regency Redux: High Style Interiors: Napoleonic, Classical Moderne, and Hollywood Regency (Rizzoli, 2008), Eerdmans will trace this taste from Thomas Hope's iconic “Egyptian Room” to Oliver Messel's lavish sets fro the 1945 film “Caesar and Cleopatra.” Book-signing to follow.

Friday, October 30, 2:30pm
Pharaohs, Harems, and Cavaliers: Napoleon's Empire and Egypt
Madeline Deschamps, Author and Designer, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, NY
Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign (1798-1801) did not result in military victory, ut did leave an imprint on France. Deschamps, author of Empire (Abbeville Press, 1994 and 2001), will trace the influence of the ensuing “Egyptomania.” Book-signing to follow.

Saturday, October 31, 11:15am
“DOMUS” Houses of the Ancient World
John Saladino, Architectural and Interior Designer, Saladino Group Inc., NY
In this exclusive San Francisco presentation of his latest book, Villa (Frances Lincoln Ltd., 2009), he shares his passion for Italy and Egypt illustrating historical references on his innovative work. Book-signing to follow.

SPECIAL EVENT: Saturday, October 31, 2:30pm
Rooms with a Viewpoint: A Classic Vision of Contemporary Design
Suzanne Tucker, Principal and Interior Designer, Tucker & Marks, San Francisco
At this premiere San Francisco Launch of her new book, Rooms to Remember: the Classic Interiors of Suzanne Tucker (The Monacelli Press, 2009), one of the nation's leading interior designers will show never-before-seen pictures of select recent projects. book-signing to follow.

San Francisco Design Center
Designers' Wednesdays
With California Homes Magazine as a special Media Partner
Make Wednesday your day to grow as a designer! Join California Homes Magazine and the San Francisco Design Center for a lunch and seminar series aimed at the design professional.

October/November schedule:

October 7: Designer Showcase
Behind the Scenes at the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show
The Sherrill Collection, Galleria 350

November 4: Tools of the Trade: A Web-based Resource Guide
California Homes Publisher Heidi Gerpheide, Decorati.com CEO and Founder, Shane Reilly and Public Relations Consultant Alisa Carroll
Wroolie & Company, Galleria 215

Cost and Registration Information: Seminars are $45 for non-members, $35 for members and include lunch. Advance registration and payment must be received one week prior to each seminar. Seminars are from 12 - 2 PM unless otherwise noted.
For inquiries, call 415-490-5881 | http://www.sfdesigncenter.com/designerswed/designerswed.html