Storefront Anand Sheth
San Francisco architect Anand Sheth partners with York Street Collective to present Storefront Anand Sheth, a meticulously curated temporary gallery of homewares and art in the city’s vibrant Mission District.
Inside the former Lucca Ravioli Co. building in San Francisco’s Mission District, a new curatorial residency is unfolding. Until December 2025, Storefront Anand Sheth has reactivated the corner site at 1100 Valencia Street in collaboration with York Street Collective. The installation transforms an historic address into a living exhibition where furniture, lighting and art are not distanced by velvet ropes but embedded in the choreography of everyday use.
Designed and built in under a month, the residency reflects a resourceful and layered approach to temporary architecture. Ubiquitous gondola shelves – salvaged from a liquidating Bay Area Rite Aid – are refitted as modular plinths and displays, offering a quiet critique of formula retail. “The shelves … are a material remnant of failed national retail strategies,” notes Anand Sheth, founder of the eponymous multidisciplinary design practice. “We refitted them with custom millwork to obscure their ubiquity and reframe them as vessels of intention. It’s a quiet protest against formula retail, which San Francisco has long resisted more than other cities.”
For Sheth, the storefront is both an exhibition and an experiment in cultural infrastructure. “We didn’t want curation to be an afterthought layered onto the architecture – we wanted it embedded from the start,” he explains. “Although we designed and constructed the space in under a month, we’re trying to build long-term cultural infrastructure, where the rhythm of everyday life can hold space for design that provokes, supports and reflects.”
The opening iteration brings together a roster of collaborators, including ALMa Design Studio, Andy Vogt, Angela Martell, Entler Studio, Flat Vernacular, FYRN, Nicole Nadeau, RAD Furniture and others. Each contribution is considered not as a static object but as a participant in the life of the space – a chair to sit in, a light to adjust, an artwork to live alongside.
As Sheth describes, the project is as much about reframing value as it is about display. “This project collapses the traditional separation between gallery and store, between exhibition and everyday use. That friction is intentional. It lets us ask, ‘What deserves to be protected, priced, placed on a white pedestal? And whose work do we allow to shape our domestic, commercial and civic spaces?’”
In reimagining a familiar corner site with generosity and intelligence, Storefront Anand Sheth and York Street Collective extend an invitation: to inhabit design, not just observe it.
Design by Storefront Anand Sheth and York Street Collective. Build by Brickley Production Services and Nihir Shah.
