San Miguel de Allende: Compound Interest
Want to see the cobblestone inspiration for San Francisco interior designers Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman’s furniture line, Casa Acanto? Rent it. The duo’s five-bedroom, seven-bathroom retreat right in historic San Miguel de Allende is an 18th-century stone enclave, reconstructed as an entertaining haven. Behind the plank doorways, find exquisite indoor and outdoor living rooms, […]
Expensive Renovations for Rental Apartments
Jeffry Weisman, a 53-year-old interior designer who is a principal in the firm Fisher Weisman renovated his rental apartment in San Francisco shortly after he moved in 20 years ago, spending about $100,000 to remodel the master bedroom and kitchen. Five years ago, after Mr. Weisman’s now-husband Andrew Fisher moved in, they invested about $200,000 […]
Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman’s Home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
In the living room, pine beams highlight the ceiling, and the French doors feature curtains of a Duralee velvet trimmed with an ikat by Kravet. The mesquite bookshelves were custom made, the Fisher Weisman–designed daybed and sofa are upholstered in a Gretchen Bellinger linen velvet, and the antique Moroccan rugs were purchased in Marrakech. San […]
The artful inventiveness of Fisher Weisman
Clients who can’t see the beauty in the whimsy – or the whimsy in the beauty – of a room done in elegant furniture surrounded by quilt-like wall hangings made of stained and painted coffee filters probably aren’t the best match for interior designers Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman. “It’s important that the room has […]
Artful Decoration: Gump’s Goes For Baroque Celebrating the Exquisite Oeuvre of Decorated Designers Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman
On March 14, dandies, grand dames and design San Francisco came out in force to celebrate the launch of Fisher Weisman’s “Artful Decoration” at Gump’s. The storied store fêted the design duo with a well-heeled celebration for “Artful Decoration,” a new monograph from Monacelli Press, showcasing Fisher Weisman’s legendary interiors, with a forward penned by none […]
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 […]