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Bay Area Yoga Retreat Aidlin Darling Design

We have just received the first issue of CTC&G’s sister publication, SFC&G (San Francisco Cottages & Gardens), debuting this month. Editor in Chief Alisa Carroll arrived in the office from Europe, and Champagne popped as the magazine was revealed to gasps and applause. After months of reviewing fabulous design projects and features as they came in one by one, we now had a chance to see them in all of their C&G glory—both familiar and not so familiar, in this case, since they represent a new place on the other side of the country. The pages of the premiere issue transported us to that new place. ■ A Russian Hill apartment designed by David Oldroyd of Orlando Diaz-Azcuy Design Associates boasts 270-degree views of four bridges, 10 church spires, mountains, the ocean and most of San Francisco’s architectural landmarks, while an Aidlin Darling–designed private yoga retreat in Sonoma embodies a collective “om.” In Carmel, an 11-acre site transformed by landscape designer Bernard Trainor takes the eye on a sumptuous pastoral journey. And only in hilly San Francisco would our iconic “Deeds & Don’ts” column report on a home’s “walkability” score and how real estate agents use RunKeeper, an app that calculates changes in street grades. Most optimal, says Ira Serkes of Pacific Union/Christie’s, is “a walk score of 80 or more and an elevation gain of no more than a couple hundred feet.” ■ I kid you not. Read the issue, and you will swear you are there!

 

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