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At Home in San Miguel de Allende with Jeffry Weisman and Andrew Fisher
When San Francisco based designers Jeffry Weisman and Andrew Fisher first came to San Miguel de Allende in 2011, they knew immediately they would make it their Mexican home.
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Books of note
Artful Decoration: Interiors by Fisher Weisman
by Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman
Designers Abroad: Inside the Vacation Homes of Top Decorators
by Michele Keith
Designers Here and There: Inside the City and Country Homes of America’s Top Decorators
by Michele Keith
The Finest Rooms in America
by Thomas Jayne
Treehouses of the World
by Pete Nelson
The Perfect Room: Professional Secrets for Flawless Style Hardcover
by Helen Thompson
Haven: Cozy Hideaways and Dream Retreats
by Allison Serrell (Author), Meredith Heuer (Photographer)
Weekend Houses
by Penelope Rowlands (Author), Mark Darley (Photographer)
Casa mexicana / Mexican Home
by Lina Botero (Author), Massimo Listri (Photographer)
Style and Substance: The Best of Elle Decor
by Margaret Russell
San Francisco Style: Design, Decor, and Architecture
by Diane Dorrans Saeks (Author), David Duncan Livingston (Photographer)
Preface to Artful Decoration
Interior designers have been making our world a more beautiful place for centuries. But decorators who create magic–whose work transports us to another realm–are rare indeed. Among those geniuses today are Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman of Fisher Weisman.
In their work, sleight of hand and trompe l’oeil abound: A chandelier isn’t merely a light fixture; it is an apparition that appears to be made of gilded branches. Kitchen cabinets are inset with smoked-mirror panels that cast glimmering reflections. At the flick of a switch, a bathroom’s lyrical, shell-encrusted ceiling fixture becomes an unimaginably glamorous tub-filler; while a dramatic, wall-size collage turns out to be an assemblage of paper coffee filters-stretched flat, subtly dyed, and finely stitched into a vast grid. Even the design duo’s most simplistic spaces offer transporting experiences through exquisite accents and the melding of elements both humble and luxe–raw plaster, wool flannel, graphic African mud cloth, and rustic stone mixed with intricately painted faux bois, supple glove leather, sparkling quartz crystals, and sensuous silk velvet.
Over the years, I’ve published several magazine features on Fisher Weisman’s projects, but it’s Jeffry and Andrew’s own homes that have been the most memorable for me; they are the places that are truly emblematic of their firm’s signature style. The swank, sophisticated Nob Hill flat where the two live in San Francisco and the extraordinary estate they built in the Sonoma Valley share an essential quality, a unique balance between practicality and poetry. We all want to live in homes that are comfortable and inviting–but a bit of fantasy never hurts. After all, who doesn’t want to live happily ever after?
MARGARET RUSSELL
Former Editor in Chief, Architectural Digest
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