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Text by Mary Forsell •
Photography by Matthew Millman •
Styling by Laurel Walter and Jennifer Bright
Goat Hill. Holy Hill. Poppy Hill
Over the years, it’s gone by a lot of names, but the Potrero
Hill section of San Francisco has one constant feature: It’s the sunniest place
in the city.
“We call it the Banana Belt,” says Candra Scott. The sweet,
1904 bungalow she bought 15 years ago in the above-fog-level district beckoned
to her immediately.
“This neighborhood was originally where people who
worked on the waterfront lived and took the trolley downtown,” she
says.
Every community has a personality worth exploring—that’s her philosophy
as a designer of what she proudly calls “site-specific hotels.”
Growing up in
a military family, she moved constantly, spending countless nights in hotels.
“The ones I saw as a child had a romance about them,” says Candra, who earned a
degree in interior architecture from the University of Oregon. Though she began
her career designing temporary residences for executives, she was irresistibly
drawn to hotels.
(a) Sprinkled with
treasures from China, the
sitting room off Candra’s kitchen is a tranquil nook
for sipping Earl
Grey from a 1920s tea set. A Chinese figurine serves as a lamp
base.
The sofa sports an Asian toile. (b)
Velvet cutwork
pillows reflect the designer’s passion for nature. (c) A day at
the office is off to a good start as
Candra, in a collectible Lloyd
Loom chair, takes tea. (d) In the foyer, an inlaid French
19th-century
chest displays antique Chinese pots.
(e) Candra’s son, Koben
Henriksen, replaced the
former cement yard with an old-fashioned garden of
hydrangeas and
climbing ‘Sally Holmes’ roses. (f) In a signature Scott
concoction, a 19th-century
French painting is paired with Deco
furniture and a rug by Walter Nichols, an
American-born designer who
worked in Tientsin, China, in the 1920s and ‘30s.
A Moroccan tea tray
turned coffee table completes the international
look.
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