Check out these photos from our new San Francisco showroom opening and panel discussion event - Whiskey, Women, Dump Trucks & Design. The panel discussion, moderated by John King, Urban Design Critic, San Francisco Chronicle and featuring a design star studded panel, discusses the rich history of design in San Francisco. Guests celebrated the opening of the new InterfaceFLOR location in the DeMartini Building, which opened its doors at the tail end of the 19th century as The Art, a saloon and dance hall on the edge of the bay, where drinks and dancing with a lady cost a mere 12 cents. By 1919, the building was home to a truck factory manufacturing the newfangled vehicles that would render horse-drawn wagons obsolete. The building’s 21st-century incarnation as a design showroom builds upon its checkered past with a nod to both art and commerce.

John King also penned a column where he mentions the opening.