California Modern, Reconsidered: The Future of Gathering Spaces

Join us for an evening exploring how design shapes the way we gather, connect, and create belonging. Featuring the Brand Partners selected by , architect and curator of x York Street Collective: Fyrn, Idaho Wood Lighting, Entler Studio, RAD Furniture, and Post Company—this conversation delves into the evolving language of California design.

The space was recently featured in Interior Design as a space that fosters art and ideas.

Through the lens of hospitality as community-building, we’ll look at how local values of sustainability, craft, and light inform a new aesthetic and mindset—one that balances authenticity with innovation. Together, these makers and designers are redefining what “California Modern” means today: adaptable, hospitality-driven environments where architecture and objects invite people to gather, linger, and connect.

Hosted by x York Street Collective and Design Bay Area, this event brings together the region’s leading voices in furniture, lighting, and interior design to imagine the future of gathering spaces—where design becomes the sharpest tool for community expression.

Tickets include one craft mocktail by York Street Collective. Additional mocktails available for purchase.

PANELISTS:

• Jonathan Entler - founder of in LA. Jonathan is the Designer and fabricator of the ceramic chandelier and table lamps at x York Street Collective
• JT Vaughn - founder of , whose collaborative surface mounted fixture is featured in the stylized restroom and table lamps, designed with Post Company, are in the concept shop
• Leigh Salem - founding partner of Post Company, the renowned interior design firm behind the Ravine Collection in collaboration with Idaho Wood Lighting
• Dave Charne - founder of , whose tables, benches, chairs and stools are featured throughout the bar, and their limited edition charcuterie boards and candlestick holders are in the concept shop.
• Russel Hill - founder of , whose cafe tables are featured in the bar and cafe chairs on the sidewalk patio.
• Moderated by Dawn Zidonis, CEO and Co-Founder of Design Bay Area.
• Hosted by Anand Sheth, AIA, Architect of Studio Anand Sheth and Curator of Storefront Anand Sheth

On view during our evening reception will be a new gallery exhibition featuring plug-in sconces by Amanda Swain (Chimera Design), Rico Duendes, Sergio Mondragón, soft-geometry, and John Gnorski (for Studio Ahead)—each exploring the face, lineage, and personal histories through light and form. While not the focus of the program, these works will serve as an illuminated backdrop, extending the conversation on how identity and craft inform the spaces in which we gather.

ABOUT:

x York Street Collective reclaims a historic corner of the Mission District as a new kind of exhibition space: one that resists neutrality, resists spectacle, and insists on specificity. Designed and built by in under a month, the project transforms the former Lucca Ravioli Co. building into an inhabitable display of contemporary art, design, and cultural memory. It is both an architectural intervention and a curatorial gesture—staged in collaboration with and powered by Square and SF New Deal. Here, the lines between domestic space, showroom, studio, and gallery are purposefully blurred.

is a non-profit organization that promotes the diverse design community in the San Francisco Bay Area through its events, content, and community platform. It is the organizing body behind major events like San Francisco Design Week and organizes other regional events such as Design Healdsburg. Design Sausalito and Silicon Valley. Design Bay Area fosters economic opportunities by creating connections and raising the visibility of local designers and the design industry as a whole.

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