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Jessica Hall
Interior Designer to the Rich and Famous
By Kaya Morgan
One of San Francisco's finest designers, Jessica Hall has been wowing clients both in the Bay Area and internationally for more than two decades. Her timeless Old World-inspired interior designs include the mayor's office and other historical structures in San Francisco, the residence of Oscar award-winner John Jaeta of The Matrix , a noted hotel and winery in Sonoma, one of the World's Leading Small Hotels, and a well-known blues club.
The former President of the Board of the California Council for Interior Design Certification, Hall is something of an institution in the San Francisco design community. Together with her staff at Jessica Hall Associates, she also has completed projects in Paris, London, Athens, Cairo, Beirut, Manhattan, and Beverly Hills that include upscale restaurants, hotels, offices, and banks, spectacular private residences, and even a castle or two. Her work has been showcased in several magazines and featured on HGTV and The Food Network. Recently, Jessica Hall Associates has expanded into the booming Las Vegas, Nevada, market.
A self-made woman, Jessica was influenced by a life that reads like a movie script. She grew up in a Virginia suburb, just outside Washington, D.C. Her father was head of FBI security for the Pentagon, so family home entertaining often brought friends and visitors from around the world. Young Jessica's horizons were further broadened by exposure to the historical monuments, art galleries, and cultural diversity of our nation's capital.
While her grandfather was a talented painter and church muralist, it was Jessica's grandmother, Agnes Kennedy, who introduced her to the world of textiles, antiques, and fabrics. Agnes took Jessica along to the auction houses, where they bid on random furniture pieces and the unclaimed, sealed trunks left behind by hasty travelers from around the globe. The trunks were often stuffed with dresses and textiles made up of intriguing design and color combinations that helped shape Jessica's own sense of style.
After high school, Hall's travels to Europe introduced her to the most architecturally beautiful, historic, and artistically diverse areas in the world, eventually taking her as far as Morocco and Tibet.
"I was inundated by the cultural differences of various color palates. People's color sense is 100 percent contingent on where they grew up, and what the light was like there," she says. "Knowing how people see so differently has helped me recognize how my client's experiences, history, and travel have all influenced their design preferences."
After completing studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Hall was hired by Environmental Planning and Research in San Francisco, where she worked on some of the top design projects in the Bay Area.
"Some of the staff took me under their wing," says Hall. "But, I was truly lucky when Beverly Thom, the famous colorist (later a designer for Nike and other large textile manufacturers) had me assigned to some of the best projects."
In 1984, with determination and the support of loyal clients, she set out on her own as Jessica Hall Associates, and has not looked back. "It's been a real source of recognition to have repeat clients that come back again and again," Hall says. "We became deeply involved in the many aspects of Old World interiors prior to it becoming such a huge trend. And now, we've helped pioneer that trend from architecture into interiors as well. Even our best contemporary projects, as avant-garde as they may be, still stem from classic designs based in Old World architectural history."
Another key to Jessica's business success is her ability to understand the clients' vision.
"We get so many jobs that are re-doing what other designers have done merely because they did not really listen to the client," Jessica says. "Being able to see into a client's vision, and making sure it's incorporated into the overall project . . . can make the difference between a mediocre project and one the client will be ecstatic over for years to come."
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