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.”

The afternoon seminar:

For this Ken Fulk panoramic visit, we will meet and greet at Ken Fulk headquarters.

There, we will first  be welcomed and 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 during Design Week..

We visit the Magic Factory studio and atelier, meet and have informal conversations with  KFI designers to discuss recent projects, and view images of recent projects, and study them.

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.

On view at St. Joseph’s Arts Society for all attendees, is:

 The dynamic new  FABRICATIONS show which  brings together Bay Area–based artists from The Space Program San Francisco residency who work with raw, reclaimed, and unconventional materials—reshaping, repurposing, and reinterpreting them to create meaning.

Through sculpture, painting, fiber arts, ceramics, video, and mixed media, these artists push the boundaries of material-based practices and offer fresh perspectives on our relationship with both the built and natural environments. Their works uncover the personal and cultural histories embedded in material itself, revealing how what we create—and what we cast aside—reflects who we are and what we value.

Presented at Saint Joseph’s Arts Society, this exhibition also encourages reflection on material consumption and sustainability, emphasizing the environmental consequences of production and disposal. By giving renewed life to overlooked or discarded matter, the artists in FABRICATIONS invite us to question what we take for granted and to recognize the power of art to reimagine place, identity, and the future.

Participating artists include: Kristin Bauer, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Julia Goodman, Dana Hemenway, Hughen/Starkweather, Amy Nathan, Rachelle Reichert, Laurel Roth Hope, Charlene Tan, Henna Vainio, Amber Jean Young, and Connie Zheng.

About Diane Dorrans Saeks:

Diane Dorrans Saeks has been presenting her in-studio design seminars for San Francisco DESIGN WEEK for fourteen years.

She is the acclaimed author of 26 books on design, travel, interiors, and architecture and gardens.

She is design editor for PAPERCITY magazine Dallas and Houston, and an editor for C magazine, and writes for many other publications.

She has published best-selling design books with Rizzoli, Taschen and Chronicle Books.

She is co-founding editor of many publications, including C California Style, Metropolitan Home, Indagare,  and Garden Design.

A lifelong arts advocate and a Francophile she lives in California and visits France as often as possible.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – April 16 – Atmosphere at AD PRO x KEN FULK Private Preview Party on April 16th 2025 at Ken Fulk Magic Factory Peepshow and Loft in San Francisco, CA (Photo – Drew Altizer)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – April 16 – Atmosphere at AD PRO x KEN FULK Private Preview Party on April 16th 2025 at Ken Fulk Magic Factory Peepshow and Loft in San Francisco, CA (Photo – Drew Altizer)