Amplified Lifestyles is excited about the return of The San Francisco Fall Show after its absence during the Pandemic. What does electronics integration have to do with art and antiques? Amplified’s Senior Technology Advisor, Robert Gilligan, worked on the 2014 show, “The Rush of Gold: Precious Metals in Art & Antiques.” For the Opening Night Gala, the Grand Entry Hall at Fort Mason’s Festival Pavillon deftly juxtaposed the city’s past Gold Fever with its current digital gold rush.

Tom Klingerman of the New York and San Francisco Bay Area architectural firm Ike Kligerman Barkley designed a larger-than-life immersive spectacle. Six monumental 20-foot-high projection screens splashing videos of gold nuggets, gold watches, giant goldfish, and champagne bubbles greeted gala attendees. The architects and general contractors utilized existing metal towers combined with black drapes suspended from battens. The wood frame and shiplap panels were painted high gloss black with International Orange metal frames to match the Golden Gate Bridge. Robert was the man behind the curtain, or in this case, up in the rafters supervising the projectors. The event, which attracted 60 plus world-class antique dealers, sold various gilded art, antiques, and objects, including a six-pound gold nugget for $400,000.

This year marks the show’s 40th year and it runs October 13-16, 2022. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is the new beneficiary for the opening night gala on October 12th. While we do not know the design of the Ruby Red themed Grand Entry yet we have the names of the four designers selected for Designer Vignettes: David Oldroyd,ODADA; Emma Burns and Philip Hooper – Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler; Cathy Kincaid – Cathy Kincaid Interiors; Alex Papachristidis – Alex Papachristidis Interiors. We look forward to seeing the visions they create incorporating unique pieces from the show floor and elsewhere.