December 12, 2018 By AD Architectural Digest
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; kenfulk.com