Grand Masters of Design: Fisher Weisman Go For Over-the-Top Glamour at Home
The circa-1926 building can only be described as pure 18th century French château, from the authentic crémone-bolt hardware on the ten-foot-high French doors to the ornate plaster molding and the walls of Versailles-like antiqued mirror and trompe l’oeil. The question is, How did Marie Antoinette’s salon come to be perched on the top of San […]
Gretchen Bellinger’s Upstate New York Home: A Material World Designed by Fisher Weisman
Jeffry Weisman and Andrew Fisher take advantage of Gretchen Bellinger’s increasingly opulent sensibility to decorate her New York Home. Their drastic overhaul of the two-story Colonial Revival accommodates their grand visions as well as their client’s hundreds of books and collections of Asian furniture, antique parasols, and Erie Canal engravings. Evolution happens. Minds mature, tastes […]
Chic Retreat by Fisher Weisman: Biedermeier meets Botswana in a FW personal best
The Sonoma County home of San Francisco designers Jeffry Weisman and Andrew Fisher defies conventional wisdom about the proper relationship between architecture and decorating. Instead of aiming for harmony and integration, the couple’s house revels in contradiction. The [chic retreat’s] boxy exterior suggests a treatise on rationalism and restraint, but the story that unfolds inside is pure […]
City Confidential: Fisher Weisman on Nob Hill
With more than 45 years in the design trade between them, Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman have decorated many prize San Francisco apartments over the years. So, within seconds, they could see the potential written all over their new clients’ recently acquired penthouse in a blue-chip building in Pacific Heights. The spacious floor-through duplex has […]
Kid-Friendly Design
Anyone who thinks elegant and kid-friendly design are mutually exclusive need only step inside Joe Gillach’s San Francisco apartment. Perched on Nob Hill in a 1920s building, Gillach’s antiques-filled home at first glance seems strictly for grown-ups: A glittering mirrored wall reflecting hand-painted linen murals greets visitors in the entrance, and a peek through the […]
Over the Rainbow
Leave the comic books and slingshots at the door – this isn’t the kind of tree house where one might expect to find Bart Simpson. San Francisco designers Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman have conjured something decidedly grand. Their fabulous folly of a tree house, a short distance (but a world apart) from the couple’s […]
One Room, Garden View
Although interior decorators and gardeners both toil in the service of getting things to look more beautiful, their processes are fundamentally different. For their Sonoma County retreat, however, San Francisco interior designers Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman decided to think gardener. Both may toil in the service of getting things to look more beautiful, but […]
Shell Shock: Andrew Fisher’s San Francisco Apartment
Andrew Fisher’s San Francisco apartment is a place to discover, not to describe. Fisher, a longtime partner in the traditional San Francisco decorating firm of John G. Hallock Interiors, also works wonders as a decorative artist, turning his visions into reality with a hot glue gun, a treasure trove of fabulous trinkets acquired on his […]