September 15, 2025 • Posted by Design Bay Area
This tour is led by Diane Dorrans Saeks as she shares the insider stories based on her personal relationship with Ken Fulk.
ONLY 30 TICKETS AVAILABLE!
For this panoramic visit, we will meet at the new shop/ gallery at Ken Fulk headquarters where Diane Dorrans Saeks will begin the group tour.
There, we will visit Ken’s latest sensation, his dazzling new by appointment-only shop, Ken Fulk Purveyor of the Extraordinary. The alluring and inspiring shop offers design, antiques, garden decor, lifestyle, curiosities, and Ken Fulk vintage finds, Ken’s favorite books, private collections, art, accessories. Please note: Ken Fulk has extended the offer of a designer discount of ten per cent off for all attendees for purchases.
We visit the Magic Factory studio and atelier, to discuss recent projects, and view the dynamic setting for Fulk and his large team.
We will carpool, walk and gather at St. Joseph’s Arts Foundation to be welcomed by Martin Strickland, the dynamic director of St Joseph’s Arts Society. We will study the architecture and renovation of the historic former cathedral, and discuss the foundation’s membership, which supports artists and city arts groups.
On view at St. Joseph’s Arts Society for all attendees, is the vivid and expressive new show “La Pocha Nostra, The Other Art World”. We will view the collective’s multi-media works. Martin Strickland will offer insight, details and information on the many forms of La Pocha Nostra work and decades-old dialogs, conversations, and dramatic poster imagery.
La Pocha Nostra is an ever-morphing trans-disciplinary arts organization, founded in 1993 by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, and Nola Mariano in California. The objective was to formally conceptualize Gómez-Peña’s collaborations with other performance artists. It provides an international base (and forum) for a loose network of rebel artists from various disciplines, generations and ethnic backgrounds, whose common denominator is the desire to cross and erase borders between art and politics, practice and theory, artist and spectator.
About Diane Dorrans Saeks:
Diane Dorrans Saeks, a lifelong journalist and lecturer, has been presenting her in-studio design seminars for UC Berkeley, California College of the Arts, and San Francisco DESIGN WEEK for several decades.
She is the acclaimed author of 26 books on design, travel, interiors, and architecture and gardens. Diane is design editor for PAPERCITY magazine Dallas and Houston, and a founding editor for C magazine and Metropolitan Home and writes for many other publications.
She has published best-selling design books with Rizzoli, Taschen and Chronicle Books
A lifelong arts, design and culture advocate and a Francophile, she lives in California and visits France as often as possible.
About Ken Fulk:
Ken Fulk is a renowned designer, world-builder, style icon, and arts patron, known for shaping the daily lives of clients over the past 25 years. He has crafted everything from homes and private jets to restaurants, hotels, and personal experiences like weddings and family retreats. With studios in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles, his clients include tech leaders, financial moguls, rock stars, and Pulitzer Prize winners.
Fulk oversees all aspects of his projects, from design to branding, custom scents, uniforms, and guest rituals. He partnered with Pharrell Williams to launch The Goodtime Hotel in Miami and serves as Creative Director at Major Food Group, where he helps expand their global restaurant empire. He also co-founded Felix Roasting Co., a coffee brand reimagining café culture. Beyond design, Fulk founded Saint Joseph’s Arts Society, a nonprofit supporting local artists in San Francisco and Provincetown, MA.
A celebrated creative, Fulk was named “The Incredible Fulk” by The Economist and has appeared on Architectural Digest’s AD100, Elle Decor’s A-List. He was inducted into Hospitality Design’s Platinum Circle Hall of Fame, and received DesignLA’s “Living Legend Award.”