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The Trades Show with Briana Ottoboni is an interview series with modern artisans, on location inside their workshops. Each season is anchored in a city.
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18. KEEPING SAN FRANCISCO'S TIME: Horologist Dorian Clair on 72 years of repairing antique clocks, saving the Ferry Building clock tower, and doing only what's good for the clock (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Trades Show, host Briana Ottoboni sits down with Dorian Clair, a horologist and antique clock restorer who has been repairing clocks for 72 years and keeps San Francisco's tower clocks running, inside his Sanchez Street shop in Noe Valley. Their conversation traces the whole arc — from the broken Westclox alarm clock a neighbor's mother gave him on his eighth birthday in 1954, to the Navy submarine where he kept fixing watches, to the storefront he has run for 39 years and
17. Servant to the Painting: Master Gilder and Picture Framer Peter Werkhoven on a 3,000-Year-Old Craft (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Trades Show, host Briana Ottoboni sits down with Peter Werkhoven, a master gilder and picture framer who trained for a decade at an Amsterdam workbench and now owns Aedicule, inside his fine framing studio and showroom in San Francisco. Their conversation traces a career that started by accident — Peter was in his early twenties, back from France with no plan, when someone asked him to help out at a frame shop for two weeks; he never left, bought into the business within a
16. Architectural Colorist Bob Buckter "Dr. Color" on his color formula behind 18,000 San Francisco buildings, the psychology of a facade, and what it means to have good taste (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Trades Show, host Briana Ottoboni sits down with Bob Buckter, the San Francisco native known citywide as "Dr. Color," an architectural colorist whose palettes sit on more than 18,000 buildings in San Francisco and 25,000 across a 56-year career, inside his San Francisco home. Their conversation traces the whole arc — from the two weeks he worked for a painter in 1970 before going into business for himself, to the signs he staked on every finished Victorian that made the ph
15. THE LAST PLASTER SHOP: Ornamental Plasterer Lorna Kollmeyer on preserving Victorian San Francisco, the business of a rare trade, and becoming a living archive (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Trades Show, host Briana Ottoboni sits down with Lorna Kollmeyer, a sculptor, mold maker, and caster of ornamental plaster who owns the last plaster shop in San Francisco, inside her studio at the Hunters Point Shipyard. Their conversation traces how the whole trade fell into Lorna's lap — from a young basketball star who landed in San Francisco in her early twenties with no plan, enchanted by a city where no two Victorians looked alike, to the couple restoring Victorian f
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