Given that Fulk is the design world’s impresario, is it any wonder that the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant in the 1969 movie Hello, Dolly! is a go-to inspiration? Boisterous, atmospheric, and seductive, the self-taught tastemaker’s style—“Every moment matters” is his motto—has a cinematic intensity, whether in the recently opened Felix Roasting Co. café in Manhattan (think custom terrazzo flooring and hand-painted wallpapers) or a nightclub in Las Vegas that the dapper San Franciscan describes as “a mash-up of ’70s disco meets Japanese street style.” His bicoastal firm is juggling residential projects galore, too, among them the renovation of a 16th-century French former monastery, as well as fabrics for Pierre Frey. Fulk’s clients (rapper Pharrell Williams, entrepreneur/philanthropist Sean Parker, fashion designer Veronica Beard) are as jazzy as he is. ► San Francisco and New York; kenfulkom
Ken Fulk.
