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Shelley & Co. designed this 'Little Boy Blu' space for the San Francisco Decorator Showcase open through May 26 Photo by Peter Medilek

HAVEN'T BEEN to the San Francisco Decorator Showcase yet? There are at least three good reasons to go.

You can wander through House Beautiful magazine's Kitchen of the Year, experience the design work of eight Marin experts up close and tour 30 interior and exterior spaces containing plenty of inspirational ideas.

The Showcase House this year is a four-story brick mansion with six bedrooms spread out over 8,820 square feet, set on a third of an acre overlooking the Presidio and San Francisco Bay. It was built in 1908 for Alfred Sutro's family.

Here is a look at the work of the Marin participants.

Alex Ray

Laura Larkin Interior Design created a 'Woman's Office' for the San Francisco Decorator Showcase open through May 26. Photo by Margot Hartford

"I always want people to have an aha moment, so as you come up the stairs from the Grand Entrance, I think you are surprised by this (rough-edged bronze alphabet collection) by Martin Bialas," says Ray of Five Senses Art Consultancy in San Rafael.

"The installation and concept is thoroughly contemporary and chic," she says. "It can be comfortable in a traditional home or contemporary home, or in a garden. It is extremely versatile."

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Jonathan Adler: America #39;s First Celebrity Potter | Behind the Label | Reserve Channel
Go Behind The Label as James Aguiar explores the groovy world of potter, interior decorator and writer Jonathan Adler. Jonathan describes his design philosophy as "happy-chic" and informs us...

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DEAR MICK: Can you think of any actor or movie professional who made millions of dollars early, and then just decided to quit the profession, retire and live on the money?

Robert M. Lange, Albany

DEAR ROBERT: There are some examples that seem that way anecdotally, but then you look into them and you find out otherwise, that no one leaves the party without getting shoved out the door.

For some people, a gentle nudge is enough. In 1942, for example, MGM got rid of its three most popular leading ladies from the '30s. Two of them went ahead and retired, while one of them, Joan Crawford, clawed her way back to stardom at Warner Brothers. Some stars have had successful second careers. Ricardo Cortez became a stockbroker, and William Haines became an interior decorator, but both turned to their new callings only after their stars had faded.

Basically, some people are content to pull the plug when the best is over and others won't quit until a brick wall buries them, but nobody but nobody walks away from being a movie star, because it's not about the money. It's about being a movie star.

HI MICK: I don't understand the movie industry's obsession with Amy Adams. I don't find her very compelling. She seems to play Amy Adams in every role. Is there something I'm not seeing, or am I seeing something that others aren't?

Ken Ogle, San Francisco

HI KEN: You're not seeing something others are seeing, and while you're not obligated to, you might want to try, just for your own pleasure. She's remarkable, either a great actress or someone in the process of becoming one. She is different in every role, but as with all actors, she has the same voice and face, and there are some elements that are either consistent or recurring.

In a review of "Sunshine Cleaning," I wrote that, "Adams gives us a portrait of raging want beneath a veneer of surface diffidence. In her every encounter ... you can see her eyes turn in on herself, measuring her own worth in terms of others' reactions, wondering if she's being powerful enough or if the other person has noticed that she is as frightened as she feels." That's a familiar Adams mode, but she can play off of that, as in "American Hustle," where she plays someone a lot more grasping and confident, even while roping in hints of her more usual self.

She's like the American Isabelle Carre, in that a part of her seems like a little girl who woke up one morning, suddenly 35 years old, and decided not to tell anybody, but to test out her newfound power.

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Recently, Antioch College officials announced that Yoga Springs owner/director Monica Hasek has been named the new director of the schools new Wellness Center. The center, an upgrade of the former college gym, will have cost around $8 million when it opens to the public late this summer or early fall.

Hasek, a professional interior decorator and realtor as well as yoga teacher, will replace Becky Harrison, who was hired in February but left the job two weeks ago. According to Dorothy Roosevelt, the Wellness Center project lead, college leaders sought someone local to replace Harrison so as to move forward as quickly as possible. Hasek, who had met several times with Roosevelt to discuss visions for the new center, seemed the perfect choice for the job, according to Roosevelt..

When I got the phone call, I couldnt resist, Hasek said recently regarding the opportunity to expand what I was already doing and create a broader wellness community.

The facility has been designed to meet the needs of the community as well as the college, and leaders hope that membership costs will be comparable to area fitness centers, Hasek said. All aspects of the old gym have been upgraded, with new windows, lighting and flooring throughout, a new floor plan, and an expanded pool in a natatorium with a south-facing wall of glass.

See the May 15 News for longer article on the Wellness Center and its new director.

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Although he is famously nicknamed The Prince of Chintz, decorator Mario Buatta describes himself as a devotee but not slavishly so of English Country style. He creates what could be described as garden rooms, spaces that bloom with color, often filled with flower-pattern fabrics.

I dont do flowered chintz in every room, he said in a recent phone conversation from New York City. I love the feeling of a modern, up-to-date flowered fabric. I dont start out to do an English Country look. I like it more citified, sophisticated and polished. I like making a room for living today hopefully cozy, comfortable, colorful, personable.

His goal for just about any room, he adds, is to create a living garden where people are living. Its never complete. Its constantly changing as people buy new things.

Buatta was regularly spotted in Palm Beach during the past season, in part because he was promoting a new book, Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Interior Decoration (Rizzoli, $75). At 432 pages, the hefty volume is packed with photographs chronicling dozens of homes he has decorated for celebrities and the society set. Buatta spoke about his work and signed copies during programs this season at both the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach and The Society of the Four Arts.

He described the book as the first and last compilation of his extensive portfolio of projects, which were published in decorating magazines over the years. Co-authored with Emily Evans Eerdmans, the book includes a forward by Paige Rense, who championed his work during her longtime career as editor in chief of Architectural Digest.

Hes known almost as much for his wit as for his decorating skill. If you cant hide it, decorate it, is a famous Buatta-ism. So, too, are these: I dont hate white houses; I just think they are boring, and If you dont understand color, youll never be a great decorator.

He readily acknowledges that his decorating preferences were influenced by firms whose principals specialized in traditional dcor Parish-Hadley and Rose Cumming as well as the English firm of Colefax and Fowler.

When I first saw a room by Colefax and Fowler, I went berserk, he said.

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Buattas sumptuous rooms, layered with antiques, textiles, trimmings and exuberant colors, look like theyve evolved over the years and for good reason, he said.

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In truth, no one really remembers, or cares, that the weird music geek who sits in a corner of the office had been raving about that band since, like, two years ago, long before they had a hit single thats now everyones ringtone. This is the point at which the music geek really goes off the deep end and only listens to indie bands that refuse to sign to a label and only distribute their music via USB stick.

That imaginary music geek would find solace, if he should seek it, in my company, because really, since when has food become so cool, so hip and so mainstream?

I recently saw a list of the 10 Hottest Women in Food, and I knew that we the fusty old guard were done for. Highly attractive young women waxing lyrical about chocolate and ice cream? Even I would ditch the history of fermentation in the Middle Ages to hear them talk about their craft or advocacies.

These gorgeous people can do more to change the landscape of food in this country and raise awareness for food ethics and sustainability than legions of scholars banging away at their keyboards.

Food suddenly being cool doesnt just mean an explosion in newly opened restaurants and the elevation of the restaurateur from its service-class stigma to hip lifestyle tag (its what interior decorator was 10 years ago). Its an entire ecosystem of cool kids and old hacks as well as wannabes photographing, writing, blogging, and listicling about food.

And annoying as it may be to the geeks who got into it before it became popular, its impossible to deny that its a good thing and has raised the bar all around.

Pack donkey

In the old days, I would have to travel and send home boxes full of absurdly expensive books from specialist booksellers, and then fill my suitcase with exotic honeys, spices, herbs and teas, like the pack donkey of a Silk Road trader. These days, not only do I not have to, but I dont want to: Id rather explore the Pangasinan sea salts, or the chocolates from Davao, or honey from Palawan, or any of the local produce that has now become (a little) more accessible.

(I remember in earlier days trying to take unpasteurized Palawan honey home; it exploded like Nickelodeon green goo all over the airplane.)

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Mon dieu! Regulars at La Grenouille, the 52-year-old, gold-walled bastion of classic French cuisine, arent taking well to the restaurants new management.

On March 22, Charles Masson Jr., the restaurants debonair proprietor for most of the past 40 years, like his father before him, abruptly announced that he would no longer be working there, amid family feuding with his mother and brother. Now, Charles younger brother, Philippe, is at the helm, and some La Grenouille regulars loyal to Charles say the place has taken a dclass downturn.

Now that [Charles is] gone, the flowers arent up to snuff, and the brother looks more like a bouncer than a host, says Mario Buatta, 78, an interior decorator who lives on the Upper East Side and has been frequenting La Grenouille with clients since the 70s. Social people who have gone for years and years are refusing to go back. Its very sad.

The difference in sartorial style between the Masson brothers has become a major topic of conversation among La Grenouilles well-heeled clientele.

My friends were saying they were horrified by the way Philippe dressed, says Tony Cointreau, author and heir to the Cointreau liquor fortune.

Did you see the shoes Philippe was wearing? gasps one former regular in the finance industry.

He had an ill-fitting sports jacket that looked like it had been in his closet from college, scoffs an art world attorney. Charles was always in a beautiful suit.

Philippe defends his fashion choices, saying, I wear a suit and tie like Charles does.

Some former clientele plan to stop going to La Grenouille altogether. David Patrick Columbia, the 60-something editor of the New York Social Diary Web site, says he went to the restaurant a few weeks ago because of a prior dinner obligation, but isnt planning on returning anytime soon.

I dont want to go back, says Columbia, who estimates that hes been going to La Grenouille for 30 years. Its like I lost a friend, and you cant replace that with a person who is not a friend. Charles is an artist, and everything in the place is his creation. Philippe is the baby in the family, and he looks like it next to his brother.

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Charleston County

BLAKE, Elijah, of Hollywood died Wednesday. Arrangements by Walker's Mortuary of Johns Island.

CHOICE, Jermaine Bernard, of North Charleston died Wednesday. Arrangements by Suburban Funeral Home.

HILL, Marilyn Williams, 88, of Charleston, a retired interior decorator, concierge, sales associate and widow of Lois E. Hill, died Monday. Arrangements by Garner Funeral Home of Kinston, N.C.

HOOKS, Rhonda Gail, 59, of North Charleston died Wednesday. Arrangements by Russell Funeral Chapel of Moncks Corner.

LYNCH, Laura Marie Galasso, 52, of Charleston, widow of Gerald T. Lynch, died May 1. Arrangements by Stuhr's Mount Pleasant Chapel.

MAZZELL, Joseph Edward, 71, of Charleston, a retired machinist with the Charleston Naval Shipyard, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Stuhr's Mount Pleasant Chapel.

RICHARDSON, Ethen, 8, son of Todd and Brandy Richardson of Mount Pleasant, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Carolina Memorial Funeral Home of North Charleston.

SEABROOK, Christopher, of Wadmalaw Island, a landscaper, died Thursday. Arrangements by Pasley's Mortuary of Charleston.

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