Lila B. Design
Makes beautiful statements with living things in a sustainable way
Transforms spaces organically with thoughtful elegance
Articulates visions in the finest of blooms
Develops floral & garden designs to beautify:
- weddings & events
- still life & studio photography
- interiors & gardens
Creating thoughtful environments with greenery and flowers that speak to you, is our mission. We specialize in listening and working with clients to capture each unique aesthetic and mood, regardless of whether it is whimsical, traditional, edgy, avant garde, or somewhere uncharted and in between. We have made it our business since January of 2007 to bring the celebration to your events, the artistry to your photographic styling, and the serenity to your interiors and gardens with the finest in high quality and local plants and flowers.
We are a certified San Francisco Green Business which means we have proven dedication to conserving resources and preventing pollution while working to create with repurposed, organic, and sustainably harvested materials. Local is an idea we take very seriously, and many of our flowers are grown in our own flourishing parking lot garden. Using long lasting flowers that will enliven your occasion and live on to remind you about it is what we specialize in. And the extras? We take great joy in brightening up senior centers and local clinics with our leftover blossoms.
A Bit About Us
Photo by Russell Yip at SF Chronicle
BAYLOR CHAPMAN
As founder and principle designer of Lila B. Design, Baylor brings over ten years of experience and a warm smile to garden and floral design. Before creating Lila B. Design in January 2007 she was part of a team of talented gardeners at an ecologically minded private estate while completing UC Berkeley Extension’s Garden Design Program. Her work has been featured in publications such as Sunset Magazine, California Home + Design, and Brides Magazine.
Now, when Baylor is not knee deep in flowers, listening to clients, and translating ideas to designs, you can find her scouring plant nurseries seeking new varieties to share.
Baylor is perpetually invested in the process of envisioning things in new way- using relationship and circumstance to showcase the spectacular nature of both the ordinary and extraordinary. Her approach is personal and her eye for combining living things in arresting color combinations is impeccable.
SOPHIE DE LIGNEROLLES
Gifted with a keen eye for color and resourceful hands, Sophie has been an indispensable part of Lila B. Design since its early days. When she is not managing the lot garden- ensuring it is bursting with city-grown goodness- she is composing a vivid record of growing things and fanciful arrangements as our talented house photographer.
With an M.F.A. in Painting that has taken her from Europe and New York to San Francisco, Sophie embodies cultivated artistic sensitivity with a tape measure on her hip. Undeniably this is a dynamic combination that lends itself to tackling the most challenging floral and garden design projects with ease.
Photo by Sophie de Lignerolles
SHANNON LYNN
Shannon Lynn, a long time San Francisco resident and a friendly familiar face to many of us in the Mission District, uses her learnings at City College’s floral design program to keep our studio running smoothly and creatively. If you don’t catch her in our studio, you’ll likely find her efficiently orchestrating our lively wedding season.
Photo by Sophie de Lignerolles
MAX SCHRODER
Hailing from the cold and windy climes of Noe Valley, Max was drawn to Lila B. Design by her enchantment of all things Succulent (and our need for some great office help). Now Max is helping with the website, crunching numbers, and making endless amounts of Google spreadsheets. Thankfully, she’s a whiz at all of the aforementioned. When Max isn’t in the Lila B. Studio, she’s just a few feet away in her very own design studio conceptualizing a design for the perfect white shirt.
Photo by Sophie de Lignerolles
BRANDON PRUETT
Brandon joins us from hills of the Appalachia perhaps where he acquired his warm and creative flair like no other. When he’s not revamping gardens & interiors on his own or with San Francisco’s artistic design firm Living Green, he’s making more fabulous Lila B. botanical wares in our lot garden.
WHO IS LILA?
Lila B. Design founder’s great Grandmother, Lila Shippen Patterson born in 1874, is the inspiration behind the name Lila B. She and the founder’s shared passion for gardening and flower design (and with her ‘Florific’ name!) made Lila the perfect choice.
President of her town’s garden club, collector of rare books, and botanical prints from around the world, Lila largely designed, decorated, and landscaped her residence with her husband Hugh Foresman where she lived until she was 87 years of age.
The home of Lila B. Design is on a stylishly appropriated loading dock in a industrial building called Workspace in San Francisco’s sunny Mission District. Workspace is a 37,000 sq-ft arts facility located on the west side of Folsom Street between 17th and 18th Streets that houses approximately 65 artists working in diverse mediums.
When we are out and about the shop front is neatly concealed at 2150 Folsom St. by a rolling door that completely opens to reveal the studio when we are busy creating. The unique space allows for great conviviality with our community- please wander by, look for the Lila B. sign and say hello the next time you are in the neighborhood.
Providing inspiring reprieve amidst the busy industry of San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, you will find Lila B. Design’s lot garden. Since March 2009 our city garden project has allowed us to integrate city grown flowers and plants into many of our projects, offering striking centerpieces and floral gestures that give a new meaning to the idea of local. At the lot garden we care for many of the plants and flowers we use from delicate seedlings to fully formed blossoms.