The Master Study
Artists will frequently study a great master by reproducing a master work themselves, thereby learning how the artist used composition, color, brush work, perspective, proportion, balance and interest to create their masterpiece. Many of the same tools show up in a well designed interior space: color, proportion, balance, interest and the overall “feel” (composition) of [...]
A Recycled Paper Lantern
When INSTUDIO design directors Samuel Fleming Lewis and Stephen Kladder moved into their 1500 17th Street design studio in San Francisco about a year and a half ago, the designers were hands on in every do-it-yourself design process. They painted the walls with Benjamin Moore Edgecomb Gray, installed Tandus modular carpet and outfitted the walls [...]
WORKING in SERIES
The interior Design Directors of INSTUDIO are both exhibiting visual artists and interior design specialist. Creating art alone in a studio environment can be an isolating experience. Sometimes professional artists take classes to develop techniques, themes, theories & ideas with like minded creative individuals. Artist/designer Stephen Kladder recently completed a course on developing works in [...]
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Who Recycles Best of All?
Recycling centers across the country offer low cost materials to artists, crafters, and creative decorators. All of the interior Design Directors of INSTUDIO not only offer design services but produce art & craft projects when not developing design for clients at the office/studio. While visiting the architectural material recycling center Building Resources in San Francisco, [...]
Portrait of a Lady
Randy Figures is an artist who has a passion for Victorian homes. The details and influences come from every architectural style of the past. His hand drawn pen and ink architectural rendering “Painted ladies on Guerrero Street” shows his devotion to architecture, art and design. Drawing houses since he could hold a pen, Randy recalled [...]
INSTUDIO Restyled
Interior Design Directors Samuel Fleming Lewis & Stephen Kladder of INSTUDIO advise their clients on how to restyle their home or business spaces to make them stylish and relevant to their daily lives. People are spending less on furnishings or design. Restyling makes sense to those who like what they own but want to update [...]
Lessons in the Abstract Kladder
Interior design director Stephen Kladder of INSTUDIO is also an exhibiting painter. While developing new styles and techniques Kladder took a departure from figurative images to explore a series of abstract paintings. The artist/designer is a natural colorist who takes risks with unexpected color combinations in works of art and also when designing interiors. His [...]
Interior Designers Listen for a Living
Miscommunication about interior design projects can cause rifts in the relationship between interior design clients and interior designers. Designers have the obligation to listen to their clients’ needs and thoroughly understand them before planning and designing rooms or homes. Listening is a two way street. It’s important that communication on budget and style likes and [...]
ARCH for architecture art & design
The bold new black and white graphics of ARCH on the corner of Missouri & Seventeenth streets is a reminder of the joy of shopping at unique local stores with individual personality. ARCH has supplied materials to San Francisco’s architects, designers & artists with a wide range of architectural drafting and model building supplies for [...]
Shanju
Shanju is a San Francisco artist and craftswoman. Her exhibit and display of jewelry, crafts and art at the Bayview Opera House has the feeling of an African marketplace. Layers of colors and textures are artistically arranged in a way that draws you in for a closer look. Her jewelry creations are not for the [...]
Residential Interior Design Services
INSTUDIO helps you to evaluate how you really live and how you want to live. First we listen. Listening allows us to develop furniture or design plans relevant to your life & style. Samuel Lewis and Stephen Kladder act as personal INTERIOR DESIGN DIRECTORS helping you to achieve your objectives. From full service interior design [...]
