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Lincoln Nautilus Ad – Filmed on property with our Lighting Design
Lincoln / YouTube Lincoln Nautilus Ad was filmed at a home that with our lighting design. We particularly like the final scenes, in which Matthew McConaughey drives away from the lighted home at dusk. [...]
Cheng Design
Punch Magazine, Summer 2018 If you ask Fu-Tung Cheng what a favorite snapshot of one of the homes he has designed on the Peninsula might look like, he’d say one that captures the [...]
Hillsborough Home Engages its Site in Manners both Sculptural and Sustainable
Luxe Interiors + Design - January/February 2018 issue When architects Joshua Aidlin and Peter Larsen were approached by a couple to design a home for them and their two teenage sons in Hillsborough, [...]
No. 8 Lights up Northern California’s Famed Napa Valley
Published in No.8 Newsletter, June 02, 2017 No. 8 Lighting has become the designer's choice for Wine Country illumination with a number of wineries, hotels and restaurants in the Napa Valley. All Lighting [...]
The story behind Napa’s new blockbuster winery: Promontory
San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2017 Once upon a time, Bill Harlan raced motorcycles, docked a schooner on seven continents and played professional poker. Now, he buys unwieldy swaths of Napa Valley wilderness. Same [...]
House of Earth & Sky – LEED Platinum
Aidlin Darling Newsletter, May 23, 2017 We are proud to announce that our most recent residential project, House of Earth & Sky, has just received LEED Platinum certification, the highest of the four LEED rating [...]
Crossing Borders – Mexican Modernism for Northern Californian
Architectural Digest - February 2013 issue Combining bold horizontal volumes and serene earth tones, architects Howard J. Backen and Loren Kroeger adapt Mexican modernism for a Norther California house offering seamless outdoor living [...]
Howard J. Backen Revamps an Airy Farmhouse in Napa Valley
Architectural Digest - October 2009 Issue Building a house is rarely, if ever, a painless undertaking, but some residential projects seem to come together with just a little less Sturm und Drang than [...]
Suzanne Tucker Renovates a Country Home in San Francisco
Architectural Digest - March 2007 issue The past can be a tricky business. When a residence embodies the spirit of two formidable women—one, the architect Julia Morgan, and the other, a major San [...]