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$50, Artisan.
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orCal-raised Lindsey Lucibella moved to Milan and New York to pursue a modeling career, all before she returned to California and landed posts with Peter Dunham and Michael S. Smith in Los Angeles. This year, she introduced her boutique design firm with a PDC-based Unico designLab collaboration— a line of Italian-made tables featuring built-in LED panels. A dimming option is controlled by a remote that backlights the onyx or labradorite on the surface. lucibelladesign.com.
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Mare side table, $7,500.
YOUNTVILLE/BEVERLY HILLS
From Scratch “We need to consider what we may be losing in our perpetual quest for convenience,” star chef Thomas Keller writes in the Puff Pastry & Croissants section of his new Bouchon Bakery cookbook. Secrets from his famed Yountville and Beverly Hills ovens include delectable recipes for English muffins, cookies, pretzels, demi-baguettes, sticky buns, cakes and tarts. Inconvenient…but deliciously rewarding.
JUST MY SIZE Recall the men’s store Unionmade Goods in S.F., and at the Brentwood and Marin Country Marts (where you previously shopped for extra-small chambray shirts)? Imagine the same aesthetic applied to the retailer’s new women’s concept. Now open in Noe Valley, Mill Mercantile stocks the entire Aesop product line, Il Bisonte leather goods, and clothing labels such as LVC, Raleigh and Janezic. 3751 24th St., S.F., 415-861-3373; millmercantile.com.
CLUTCH MOVES L.A.’s resident arbiter of Franco-Cali fashion, Heidi Merrick completes the look with a new collection of printed clutches in African waxed cotton with veganleather piping. A concious accompaniment for cruising around town, or, even better, pack one up for a petit voyage.
BOUCHON: DEBORAH JONES. TABLE: KEVIN KENDRICK
SAN FRANCISCO
$176, heidimerrick.com.
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