San Francisco Fall Antiques Show

Chinoiserie. The very word conjures images of the Orient and antiques made of porcelain, carved items, magnificently woven fabrics, beautiful art and furniture.

“Chinoiserie” is the theme of this year’s San Francisco Fall Antique show and it doesn’t disappoint. From the minute you walk into Ft. Mason’s exhibit hall and pass between six red painted structures styled like pagodas standing vigil, you know you’re in for a treat.

Architect Andrew Skurman designed
and supervised the construction
of the six pagodas that stand vigil
at the entry of the show.

Booth after booth displays the wares of seventy antiques dealers who have come to San Francisco from far and wide to show off and sell, their finest pieces. Of course, most of the deaalers presented Oriental themed items from painted chests of drawers to tapestries to art. Those dealers who presented more traditional antiques made an endeavor to get in the spirit of the event with walls painted an appropriate shade of red, yellow, or blue to evoke the feeling of the Orient. Flower displays were also appropriately themed, and begged to be replicated at home.

The show is vetted in cooperation with the Antiques Dealers of California Association, which ensures that the visitor will see the highest quality merchandise available for purchase.

The Antiques Show runs through Sunday, October 31^st, and benefits Enterprise for High School Students. Their web site gives details of hours and location: http://www.sffas.org/


Here's but a small sample of the treasures that delight the visitor.

Resources We Love – Pam Morris Designs Exciting Lighting, Inc.

Luminaries Inspired From Within

Pam Morris is a truly gifted artist who uses her intuition to turn metal, glass, and light into more than just a light fixture, but rather, an illuminated work of art. And the results are magnificent.

Slumped, blown, and cast glass combined with formed and cast metal are the elements she works with to create these avante-garde luminaries that defy the imagination’s boundaries.

“Light is an intimate experience and should be a pleasurable encounter,” is Pam’s philosophical approach to designing fixtures for her enviable list of clients located all over the world.

She says, “You can think of my work as very expensive light fixtures or very inexpensive works of art.” And when you see them, you know that they are indeed works of art, because, as with any great piece of art, she uses the magnetic attraction of light to evoke a visceral response.


Fire appears to be held by mankind, illuminated glass seems to float from the ceiling like a piece of paper blown by the wind, fire frozen in time, and  autumn colored leaves fall, their last breath illuminated from within. These descriptions apply to just four types of light fixtures that Pam has designed. As poetic as the descriptions are, they pale in comparison to actually seeing them.

Her studio is structurally well organized, but then there’s that sense of the chaos that’s necessary for true creative genius to emerge. And emerge it does! 

Her iconic fixture is, well, a fixture at
San Francisco's Postrio restaurant

Looking at her small physique, you wouldn’t think that Pam casts the curved glass shapes herself in custom designed kilns, or bends metal, twists wire, and coaxes and cajoles otherwise unwieldy elements into shapes that defy logic, but she does and the results are stunning.

Stories about her work have been published in numerous magazines and are available to read on her web site.

Pam Morris Designs Exciting Lighting, Inc.

Sausalito, CA

415-846-6858     

www.pam-morris-designs.com

pam@pam-morris-designs.com

By appointment only

Photographs by Pam Morris Designs and Beryn Hammil, all used with permission.