18 PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM her San Francisco apartment into a classic Spanish Colonial Revival-style house to achieve an elegantly breezy Santa Barbara vibe. (Page 75) And if you really want to know an object’s backstory, Nicole Mullen has quite the collection at her fingertips. As a curator at SFO Museum, she’s responsible for putting together exhibits of everything from fine Chinese porcelain and Philippine textiles to classic movie monster memorabilia and Victorian silver plate. (Page 84). The theme of cross-generational family bonding plays out in another story you’ll find in this month’s issue. You’ve heard of Tuesdays with Morrie? For descendants of one of the Peninsula’s early venture capitalists, it’s Breakfast with Pops at—where else?—Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside. (Page 29) Speaking of Woodside, I’m a longtime fan of the charming little town. Join me for a day spent sampling a little of what this wonderfully woodsy community has to offer. (Page 50) Our roving contributing editor, Sheri Baer, heads farther afield to explore an easy-going resort destination of tiny homes and cottages on beautiful, dogfriendly Dillon Beach. A weekend getaway overlooking Tomales Bay—what could be better? (Page 43) As spring gets into full swing, I hope you’ll find the inspiration to create some new stories of your own in this, our March issue. Andrea Gemmet andrea@punchmonthly.com {editor’s note} history teacher and a gardener for the city of San Francisco, respectively. Neither had any furniture-making expertise, though they were both the kind of guys who maintained an orderly toolbox and a much-used work bench. They definitely didn’t share the same parenting philosophy: like many of his generation, my taciturn Grandpa was hands-off when it came to child-rearing and housework, while Dad was determined to be a doting, hands-on father. I like to think that despite any differences they might have had, the project offered a nice father-son bonding experience under the handy pretext of doing something practical when the first grandchild was on the way. Which is a long way of saying that I have a soft spot for any furniture that has a story behind it, whether it’s an estate sale discovery, a cherished family heirloom or the result of a hardwon compromise forged over a plate of IKEA meatballs. For custom furniture-maker Nolan Hall, who works under the name Maker and the Moose, that story often starts with a piece of wood that he’s found. This month, we chip away at his unusual journey into woodworking—it’s not often that a guy with an engineering degree from Georgia Tech moves to Mountain View and doesn’t opt for a job in tech! (Page 80) Interior designer Kari McIntosh Dawdy does a lot of jobs on the Peninsula, but it’s a very personal project that’s being featured in a new book—her own home in San Mateo. She shares the backstory of how she integrated much-loved furnishings from My house holds just one piece of custom-made furniture, and I had zero input into its design. It’s the chest of drawers that my dad and my grandfather built for me before I was born. Made of painted wood and lined with contact paper in a wild 1970s pattern, its defining feature is the raised edge that runs along three sides of the dresser-top. That thoughtful addition allowed it to double as a changing table, and as I grew older, helped keep the piles of clean laundry I dumped on top of it from sliding off onto the floor. As far as bespoke furnishings go, it’s a pretty nondescript piece—nothing about it hints that it was made by hand by two men who were, at the time, a young
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