Reception | Artist in Attendance
Thursday, February 16
5:00 – 8:00 PM
17 Bluxome Street, San Francisco

Inner Insight, 48" x 16" x 3.75"

Originally from Israel, Carmit Haller is an artist who creates large-scale, limited edition metalworks, enticing the viewer’s eye with lavish colors and intriguing compositions. Haller has created a new genre in her painting technique, creating innovative artwork that is a breakthrough in the art scene.

Haller earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Arts/New Media from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where her work won several awards including the “Best of Show” award in 2001. After establishing a fruitful career as a senior graphic designer in the San Francisco Bay Area, she returned to her passion for computer arts. Haller is currently represented by Bruno Fine Art, in the Caribbean Islands, and has had successful solo exhibitions in various venues in Israel. Some of her art is presented in upscale design stores such as Roche Bobois Paris San Francisco, and Kevin Barry Fine Art Associates (a full-service art consulting company) in Los Angeles. In addition, she currently has a private show room in Israel displaying 5 of her metalwerk pieces. Her work has also been published in several art magazines worldwide.

Please RSVP for yourself and a guest by February 10th, 2012
rsvp@mcguire.com

Learn more about about the artist, www.carmithaller.com

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The global luxury landscape and the luxury customer have evolved dramatically over the last tumultuous and transformative three years. The advent of unprecedented new technological innovations, coupled with the increased skepticism left over from the global financial crisis, means that today’s consumers are demanding honest, accurate, timely and engaging information. accurate, timely and engaging information.

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High atop Gilmartin Drive sits this Mediterranean-inspired, gated Tiburon estate with unparalleled views of the Bay from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge as well as San Francisco, the East bay, Sausalito and Belvedere. Built in 1999 with high quality construction, this stunning gated property sits on 1.378 acres and includes the main house, separate guest house, artist studio (or maid’s quarters) as well as a tennis court, pool and manicured gardens. This coveted location offers top-of-the-world views and privacy, and is offered at $17,995,000.

For more information and a photo tour, visit www.gilmartinviewestate.com

Stephanie Ahlberg, Broker Associate
(415) 321-4232
Email: ahlberg1@comcast.net

“With over 85% of homebuyers going to the web to search for properties, we continually strive to create ways to enhance the experience,” said Noreen Smith, President and COO of Frank Howard Allen Realtors. “The Guided Tour program is one more way for us to offer a richer home search.”

When using the fhallen.tv search tool, homebuyers have the ability to build their own “TV show” of listings that match the search criteria they set, which includes filters for open houses, new listings and price changes.

“Homebuyers are presented with a personalized show based on their desired criteria, rather than just numerous page results,” said Smith. “It’s like creating your own HGTV series.”

Each video is 25-30 seconds long, features professional voice over talent and scriptwriting, includes pricing and contact information, and highlights the most compelling features of the home.

About Frank Howard Allen Realtors
Locally owned and operated, Frank Howard Allen Realtors is the only North Bay brokerage that can offer its clients the value of a century of experience with the convenience of comprehensive, state-of-the-art services. As members of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World and Luxury Portfolio International, the largest global network of premier locally branded companies, Frank Howard Allen is able to offer home buyers and sellers the resources of a national firm and the strength and value of a local market share leader. With more than 20 offices and over 300 agents in Marin, Sonoma, and Napa Counties, Frank Howard Allen prides itself on providing extraordinary personalized care and its commitment to giving back to the communities it serves. Learn more online: www.fhallen.com.

The Luxury Marketing Council is a family. As with all families, we sometimes behave dysfunctionally, but our motives and intentions can never be in dispute. We live to serve and to nurture the unique relationships that we have with our members. And we thrive on the mutual support and collaborative benefit that those relationships deliver.

As one family member to another, we thank you for all you have done to support us in 2011, a year that continued to test endurance and spirit, thankfully, with successful results. As we approach the Holiday Season, we wish you a well-deserved rest and reprieve from the pressures that have so clearly defined the past eleven months, together with the happiness, joy and contentment that the Holiday Season brings with it.

We look forward to 2012 with guarded excitement and anticipation of opportunities to come. But most of all, we look forward to seeing you again, and sharing the special partnership we have with you and all of our other family members.

With warmest regards,

Alf, Kathy, Debbie and Tricia

Friday, December 9, 2011
5.00 – 8.00PM
Sobel Design Building
680 8th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Tickets available to purchase for a drawing of amazing donated items. All proceeds benefit St. Anthony Foundation.

Event sponsored by:

Please join us for the Education “Risk Master” Luncheon benefiting The BizWorld Foundation (www.bizworld.org). The key event of the year attended by leading CEOs, Venture Capitalists, and financial Executives who support the teaching of entrepreneruship and financial education in the classroom.

This year our “Risk Master” is Jennifer M. Johnson, COO of Franklin Resources, Inc. (Franklin Templeton Investments). We are delighted to honor Jennifer in recognition of her in-depth knowledge of the investment management industry, and for overseeing some of the most significant business areas of Franklin Resources, Inc. Jennifer is also very active in the community and is a board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Shelter Network.

Education “Riskmaster” Luncheon

Jennifer M. Johnson
Chief Operating Officer
Franklin Templeton Investments/Franklin Resources, Inc.

with

Tim Draper
Founder, The BizWorld Foundation
Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

and

Grazia Bennett
Event Chair
Sotheby’s International Realty

Featuring

The BizKids

When: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Reception begins at 11:15 a.m.
Luncheon and Program begin at 12:00 p.m.

Where: St. Regis Hotel
125 Third Street, San Francisco
Valet Parking

Sponsorships and individual tickets are now available.

The BizWorld Foundations’ mission is to challenge and engage children across the cultural and economic spectrum through experiential learning programs that teach the basics of business, enterpreneurship, and money management and promote teamwork and leadership in the classroom.

Since 1997, The BizWorld Foundation has worked to bring entrepreneurial, business and financial education to children in 3rd through 8th grade. To date, the BizWorld programs have reached over 350,000 children around the world. Now more than ever, the need to teach our children to become entrepreneurial and financially savvy is upon us.

Photos by Dito Milian / gotbluemilk.com

Racing Ferraris in the Rain
Keeping up with a pro in a 458 Italia makes for a memorable day.

By By Marco R. della Cava | Yahoo! Autos.

There’s something already inherently nerve-shredding about taking someone else’s quarter-million-dollar supercar and letting it all hang out on a race track. Add heavy rain and you’re tempting a mental meltdown. And so it was on a recent gray day at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., when Ferrari of San Francisco organized an event driving Ferrari 458 Italias for a few dozen clients, would-be clients and one fortunate journalist. The result? Thanks to that rain, one of the most memorable driving days ever.

First, some scene setting. That Ferraris have long been bred for track use is common knowledge. Famously, Enzo Ferrari built road cars just to finance his Formula One racing efforts. That attitude still persists with much of the company’s product line, particularly when it comes to the new 599 GTO, the granddaddy of the V-12 line-up, and the 458 Italia, a V-8 rocket that racers and pundits alike feel is a quantum, F1-inspired leap ahead of its predecessor, the eminently capable F430.

But these are tough economic times, and Ferrari is feeling the heat along with the rest of the auto world. As a result, the fabled firm from Maranello is taking a two-pronged approach to keeping customers happy. The first is to create vehicles that actually conform to their clients’ lifestyles; with its folding hardtop, the California is aimed squarely at the women in the family, while the genuine 2+2 seating in the forthcoming-if-oddly shaped, four-wheel-drive FF has designs on marque faithful who have children and want to go skiing.

“We are providing consumable luxury now, not just toys,” says Greg Minor, president of Ferrari of San Francisco, whose terracotta-roofed dealership looks as if it was air-lifted out of the Tuscan countryside (in fact, it was for many years the only U.S. dealership owned by Ferrari). “The California is a particularly big hit for us. Women who wouldn’t consider heading to a track in one of our other models will gladly hop in a California and drive away.

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