{"id":413027,"date":"2026-07-26T17:53:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413027\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:53:03","slug":"this-legendary-san-francisco-hotel-has-been-given-a-glamorous-makeover-by-ken-fulk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413027\/","title":{"rendered":"This Legendary San Francisco Hotel Has Been Given a Glamorous Makeover by Ken Fulk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the drive into the city from the San Francisco Airport feels like a trip into the future (AI billboards dot the city, and the Waymos abound), the <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.thehuntingtonhotel.com\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.thehuntingtonhotel.com&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehuntingtonhotel.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huntington Hotel<\/a> feels like a trip into the past. Or, at least, a much more well-furnished version of it.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel, in historic Nob Hill\u2014where Gilded Age robber barons built their mansions\u2014is a San Francisco stalwart. Opened as an apartment building in 1922 and then converted into a hotel in 1924, it recently underwent a massive renovation and reopening, with interiors by an SF legend, the much-lauded designer Ken Fulk. His jaw-dropping work is witnessed first in the lobby, where visitors are greeted by friendly staff in a room rife with crown molding, sumptuous velvet furniture, and Old World tapestries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Indoors Interior Design Architecture Building Foyer Home Decor Furniture Living Room and Room\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3%20Lobby-DouglasFriedman-Horizontal.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Courtesy of the Huntington Hotel<\/p>\n<p>The rooms (there are 71 guest rooms and 72 suites, including a 1,500 square foot penthouse) skew more modern, but no less comfortable. Because the building was originally built as luxury apartments, the layouts are massive, light-filled, and feel more like high-end residential flats. The beds are a particular highlight, with sheets featuring a high, high thread count and a robe I desperately wanted to steal. My suite had a spectacular view of the bay, and within minutes of my arrival, the hotel had me floating upon its waters, which were shimmering teal on a sunny day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Indoors Interior Design Lamp Bed Furniture Home Decor Bedroom Room and Couch\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CornerKing-Hero-HuntingtonHotel-DouglasFriedman.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Courtesy of the Huntington Hotel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the drive into the city from the San Francisco Airport feels like a trip into the future&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4731,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-413027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-hotels","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}