DRESSING UP CALIFORNIA CASUAL

“I think ‘California casual’ can actually be quite formal when it’s pared-down, less fussy, with those raw cottons and linens mixed with elegant forms,” says Meier. In this 1930s Presidio Heights townhouse, for instance, she covered a pair of wood-framed Roman Thomas chairs in a linen velvet “that sounds formal, but the texture feels very relaxed.”