Michael Gillette is a British born San Francisco based artist, who has spent the last 20 years translating the visceral thrill of music in to arresting images. He has been sought out by many including Beck, The Beastie Boys, MGMT and Paul McCartney. He is currently working on a Monograph "Drawn in Stereo " to be published in 2012.
In the Mission, now as terminally hip as it was formally poor, the St Francis is a greasy good time since 1918. Stuck beautifully in the 50's both aesthetically and menu wise it's Americana in a bun. Dig in.
Address
St Francis Fountain | 2801 24th Street, York | San Francisco
In stark contrast, a Frank Lloyd Wright building on one time brothel ghetto Maiden (ahem) Lane. An elegantly restrained brick box with a mousehole entrance, inside it swirls and and whirls psychedelically. A predecessor of the Guggenhiem Museum. Currently houses the Xanadu gallery filled with beautiful Asian arts and crafts.
Address
Xanadu gallery | 140 Maiden Lane | San Francisco
I fell in love with San Francisco at first site, the buildings and the light, so much grooviness to dig. The signature building style I call "Wonkatecture" -a kaleidoscopic hodgepodge of giddy pioneer freedom and gilded age excess. It's a modernists nightmare! A prime example is The Vedanta Society HQ, built in 1903 to house a religious sect which fostered a multifold path to God and reflected its openness architecturally. More more more.
Address
Vedanta society old headquarters | 2963 Webster St. | San Francisco
At the midpoint of the Filbert steps, near tourist favourite Coit Tower, The Malloch is a streamline Moderne gem built in 1937. I discovered it after watching Dark Passage, a 1947 Bogart and Bacall film noir. Lauren Bacall's character lives on the third floor and Bogey holes up there. A Deco beauty cruising towards the Bay. It has the coolest lift ever.
Address
Malloch Apartments | 1360 Montgomery Street | San Francisco
Located near to the Alamo square's Painted Ladies is this wonderful gothic "stick" Italian villa with a long weirde history. Built by a Candy Baron in 1889, it's housed variously; a Russian Czarist nightclub, Jazz musicians, Satanists, a Manson family member, and one of the first 60's Hippy communes -Calliope. Creepy as hell enshrouded in fog after dark.
Address
The Westerfield House | 1198 Fulton street | San Francisco
Mimi Cave - San Francisco
Kelly Allen - San Francisco
Jenny Odell - San Francisco
Kyle Pellet - San Jose
The list of cities and places recommended by creatives worldwide for Citylikeyou keeps growing: Barcelona, Beijing, Bergen, Berlin, Cape Town, Chicago, Copenhagen...
London based animator and director Matthias Hoegg has curated our screening for April with a great selection of short films, music videos and a bit of science as well.
Check out illustrator and designer Noemi Schipfer's favourite places from Paris.
Journalist and graphic designer Louisa Lau has added Hong Kong to the map of Citylikeyou, and what a great selection of places.
