Style & Home

Pacific Heights Living The Junior League of San Francisco Home Tour features Pacific Heights homes that showcase everything from historic remodels to the cutting edge of eco-living. This month, we bring you a taste of the tour’s 15th annual showing by previewing a few of the dwellings on the tour.	A Euro look that lasts Rome-raised retailer Cardenio Petrucci says it doesn’t pay to be a cheapskate when buying furniture, even in a down economy.
Taste for the times Rising-star San Francisco designer Grant K. Gibson is striking the perfect balance between old and now.	Watch your wattage Now that we have less stuff to show off, lighting artisan Pam Morris offers advice on how to illuminate our deeper selves.

Snap Judgments Our critics weigh in on new books, albums, and films.	Farmhouse fresh There’s a new reason to escape to Sonoma County’s Farmhouse Inn and Restaurant—beyond even the fireside s’mores with housemade vanilla-bean marshmallows.
High-def modernism For interior designer Nicole Hollis, black-and-white is the new beige-and-ivory in a 1940s Pacific Heights house.	What SF fashionistas crave right now 1. Lighten up 2. Stylishly entrenched 3. Gold rush 4. Who needs tinsel? 5. High ball