photo by Jesse Leake
Press

Catch us in the Feb/March 2010 print issue or online here as told by Erin Feher.

California Home + Design is one of our favorite magazines, so we are thrilled to be featured among the pages that bring us so much inspiration.  This winter, whether you grab a print edition or visit the website, you can learn more about the fun we had creating some of the most delightful- and daring- dining room centerpieces to benefit AIDS research with Gil Mendez and Murray's Iron Works at Dining by Design San Francisco.


Turn to pages 60-64 of the winter 2010 edition of Nesting Newbies for a fun feature spread by interior design photographer Dean Birinyi.

Have you been searching for a way to make your dining environment "altruistic?"  Well look no further for tips on how to achieve "Rustic Elegance" in your interior with Gil Mendez... and of course yours truly.


San Francisco Chronicle
November 29, 2009
Sunday Home & Garden Feature
5 feasts for the eyes
Tabletop inspiration from the talent behind S.F.'s Dining by Design

Designer Gil Mendez collaborates to create a San Miquel de Allende inspired
dining room. In featured feast #4, Lila B. creates a 'fresh take on
traditional centerpieces' and writer Anh-Minh Le offers it up as an 'idea to
steal'.

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San Francisco Chronicle
November 1, 2009
Sunday Home & Garden Feature
Art from nature’s oddities
Unexpected displays bring rooms to life

Baylor Chapman's San Francisco home isn't about formal floral centerpieces or huge houseplants. For the sought-after designer, known for sustainable gardens and floral arrangements, home is about personal touches, repurposing materials and using nature's knickknacks to their utmost potential.

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Wedding Chicks
September 23, 2009
A Calistoga California Wedding

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Daily Candy
September 2009
Pots of Gold

Baylor Chapman of Lila B. Design is a double threat for perspiring apartment-dwellers. She delivers gorgeous floral arrangements and can transform even the smallest space into a living, breathing work of art.

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Daily Candy

7x7
August 2009
You Do Locally Grown Food, Why Not Locally Grown Flowers?

Locavores may be adamant about only buying food from nearby farmers, but when the dining table is dressed with flowers flown in from South America the point is kind of lost, no? Enter Lila B. Design, a San Francisco floral design company cultivating “City Grown” flowers for their bouquets.

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7 x 7

Ecco*eco
August 2009
New Wave Eco Florals with Lila B. Design

…There is nothing more gorgeous than greenery mixed with horticultural artistry, but when the materials for floral design and event arrangement are also cultivated in an environmentally savvy manner, this is indeed the best of eco finery.

… Lila B. Design is cleverly redefining the way that we celebrate and disseminate the seeds of true green style, from soil to table and all around the beloved hood.

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The Potrero View

Check out Jeanne Storck's urban farming stories for The Potrero View, including a short video about The Lot Garden project, Concrete Jungle: A Secret Garden in Dogpatch.

Portrero View

Remodelista
Sourcebook for the Considerate Home

Remodelista blogs and features photos of Stable Café in the Mission…one of my favorites. In addition to the luscious espresso, dynamic food, hip and comfortable setting, you will catch our flower designs here too.

Photo credit: Jea Jea

Brides Northern California
Spring 2009

Lila B’s woodsy décor and flowers bejeweled Meg and Adam Wiskind’s truly magical Yosemite wedding.

Brides Northern California

San Francisco magazine

The article "Shortcuts to elegant no-stress entertaining (p. 8)" (December 2007) named Lila B. Design's Baylor Chapman as one of San Francisco's eight florists who “never fail to delight":

Indoors and Out: "Baylor Chapman at Lila B. Design is one of the most creative and stylish floral designers I've seen in years,"  declares SmartCo's Julie Tucker Legrand. "She does a fantastic job working with you to create an interior plant and flower design, garden design, and floral arrangements for celebrations."

San Francisco Magazine

Brides magazine

A full-page photo in the March/April 2008 issue showcased "alternative" wedding flowers by Lila B. Design.

View the full-page photo.

Brides magazine