Inspired by a Hermès box......

ian stallings February 24, 2016

"Taking his inspiration from an Hermès box, Stallings created a rich, warm space boasting an organic texture contained by clean lines."

Mary Jo Bowling

Mary Jo Bowling's article about Reed Kingsley's elegant bathroom, is still buzzing around the internet.

An excerpt from the California Home + Design magazine article is below.

San Francisco Interior Designer Ian Stallings Featured in California Home + Design Magazine

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (VOCUS/PRWEB) JULY 01, 2011

The bathroom designed by celebrated San Francisco interior designer Ian Stallings for Reed Kingsley, president of Brownstone Furniture Company, is featured this month in the July-August 2011 edition of California Home + Design Magazine. Taking his inspiration from an Hermès box, Stallings created a rich, warm space boasting an organic texture contained by clean lines.

“Stallings blended traditional nickel-plated fixtures and modern glass tile for a look that is completely of the moment,” wrote Mary Jo Bowling in the California Home + Design article.

Stallings covered much of the wall areas with Repose glass tiles named “Tea,” which are available exclusively from Waterworks.com. Touches of orange in the organic tiles are brought to life by shattered glass wall art by Cassandra Blackmore.

To read the full article please click here.

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/san_francisco/interior_design/prweb8618246.htm

Ian Stallings home featured in Marin At Home magazine →

ian stallings February 3, 2016

We are delighted that Ian Stallings Pied-A-Terre was featured in the premiere issue of Marin At Home magazine in January 2016. Thank you to Zahid Sardar for writing this article and to Aaron Leitz for the beautiful photographs. The full article is available here.

An excerpt from the article is below:

Uncommon Pied-A-Terre

Interior designer Ian Stallings' favorite getaway is none other than his San Francisco home.

BY ZAHID SARDAR • PHOTOGRAPHS BY AARON LEITZ

“I suppose I had no option but to become an interior designer,” Ian Stallings says from his new apartment in San Francisco’s tony Bently Nob Hill, a 1920s Spanish revival high-rise by architect William E. Schirmer.

“When I was in second grade in Wabash, Indiana, my mother, whose parents were antiques dealers, gave me a subscription to Architectural Digest magazine because she thought I just might be interested,” he says.

Barely a decade later, Stallings left for San Francisco to study painting, filmmaking and design, and in 1999 he set off for New York, where, among other things, he was hired as a film production and set assistant to produce commercials for House Beautiful magazine.

“One day as we arrived on location, I immediately recognized Mario Buatta’s home from an AD article I had read,” Stallings says. Excited by the prospect of meeting the rockstar interior designer personally, Stallings, a self-described “expat from the Midwest,” had an epiphany. He wanted to be an interior designer too.

His childhood in Wabash had prepared him well. The tiny town of roughly 11,000 is not only the world’s first electrically lighted city, predating the prototypal electrified White City created for Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair, it was also the birthplace of Mark Honeywell’s iconic thermostat and the home, since 1911, of Edwin Ford’s indispensible water meter. It was these distinctions in the middle of nowhere, along with the financial largesse of the Honeywell Foundation and later the thriving Ford Meter Box Company, that together gave Stallings’ hometown a world-class $68 million arts center and exposed him to the world of arts and music. The country music star “Crystal Gayle graduated from my high school,” he says proudly.

While most Midwest towns are devoid of variety, in Stallings’ town, life at home was also “like being in a Ralph Lauren ad,” he says. “My mother had impeccable taste that veered between Hollywood glam and preppy looks. Paintings were stacked salon-style up the walls in our home; the fabrics were luxurious and the upholstery fantastic.”

He promptly returned from New York to the Bay Area in 2003 to practice interior design. After short stints at a couple of San Francisco interior design ateliers, he was ready to take on clients in 2008 — just when the economy tanked. He survived with a handful of loyal clients in the city and, since then, has progressed to large projects in Marin, the wine country, New York, London and Shanghai; an apartment at the upscale Yellowstone Club in Montana is among his best work.

Read the full article and slideshow here.

Featured in 7X7SF →

ian stallings April 1, 2014

Behold a Four-Day Design Miracle in Noe Valley

Mary Jo Bowling wrote an article in 7X7SF.

Here is a sneak preview:

When interior designer Ian Stallings set out to furnish this Noe Valley house, he was facing the challenge of his career. His young clients had recently purchased the home and moved in with just a chair, a dining table, and a bed between them. After living in the empty rooms for a time, and undergoing a few false starts, they decided they wanted to get it done—fast. They were leaving town for four days, and they hired Stallings to complete the project in that time. This is the equivalent of asking a designer to move at the speed of light.

To complete the job quickly and have it look like more than a real estate staging project, Stallings tapped into the couple's history and relied on high-quality, but readily available, furniture and art. He knew that the couple loves travel, so he chose accessories with a global ethnic vibe. He mixed off-the-shelf pieces with statement art to give the rooms depth and character. As a fine artist himself, Stallings gravitates towards art. Here, he set the stage with Jagannath Panda's surreal "Alpha Epic II."