Join Bay Area designer Karen Nepacena and Portland photographer Christopher Dibble for a holiday inspired meet and greet breakfast reception at The Makers Fair Holiday Market at Rejuvenation. Karen and Christopher continue their West Coast tour in Portland promoting Midcentury Modern Style: An Approachable Guide to Inspired Rooms and will meet with readers and industry professionals, sign their book and discuss midcentury modern design. Offering valuable style tips gathered over their years of experience renovating and photographing midcentury homes, designers and DIY-ers alike won’t want to miss this reception on Friday, December 15 from 10am-Noon.
The book signing event will take place inside The Makers Fair Holiday Market at Rejuvenation where you’ll have an exclusive invitation to shop from some of Portland's most talented local makers and get those last minute holiday gifts with purpose you’ve been looking for. Sip refreshing, limited edition, holiday mocktails from Portland based Good Wolf Brewing and enjoy fresh baked breakfast nibbles while pursuing both The Makers Fair Holiday Market and Rejuvenation.
RSVP NOW to get FREE tickets to attend the meet and greet reception and register for a chance to WIN a free copy of the book to be signed plus a signed 11x14 print of your choice from Christopher’s new photo series, Midcentury Objectified. An RSVP automatically enters you into the drawing and reserves a copy of the book for purchase inside The Makers Fair Holiday Market.
| About the Book
Midcentury Modern Style: An Approachable Guide to Inspired Rooms offers a digestible guide to the midcentury modern period alongside attainable design solutions for a range of budgets, including DIY ideas and vintage shopping tips. Full of approachable guideposts, insider tips and tricks, and easy DIYs, readers can learn how to create inspired, livable spaces full of mid-mod charm.
The book pairs Karen Nepacena's accessible design tips with Christopher Dibble's stunning images and takes readers on a visual journey through twelve real and down-to-earth midcentury-inspired homes; offering a practical guide to incorporating the style into any space. With each chapter dedicated to a different space, Midcentury Modern Style walks readers room-by-room through practical steps to bringing the period’s magic to readers’ own homes–whether it’s a full renovation or simply breathing new life into decor. And makes a great holiday gift too!
Published by Gibbs Smith, the book officially hit bookstores across the country and is available for purchase at www.destinationeichler.com/book and digital shelves including BookShop.Org, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. For a full list of upcoming events and to order your copy of Midcentury Modern Style, please visit https://www.destinationeichler.com/book.
| About Destination Eichler
Destination Eichler started as a design blog for homeowners Karen Nepacena and John Shum to chronicle their journey restoring an original Eichler home in Northern California. Fast forward nearly a decade, Karen Nepacena has established a boutique residential interior design firm focused on creating approachable midcentury modern spaces. Destination Eichler serves the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, and their work has been featured in domino, Dwell, HGTV Magazine, Apartment Therapy, and Atomic Ranch.
Principal designer Karen Nepacena is known for her ability to merge beauty and practicality, solve unique design problems and make interior design approachable for homeowners. She has emerged as one of the country’s leading authorities on midcentury modern design, sharing her expertise and passion for inspired yet approachable design with the release of her first book Midcentury Modern Style: An Approachable Guide to Inspired Rooms, featuring images from renowned photographer Christopher Dibble. Karen and John live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their two sons and rescue dog Velvet. For more information, please visit https://www.destinationeichler.com/.
| About Christopher Dibble
Christopher Dibble is a West Coast-based photographer specializing in lifestyle interiors and portraiture. He draws inspiration from the subjects and spaces he shoots, as well as film, art, photography, textiles, and more, to create images that are both aspirational yet relatable. His work has been featured in editorial publications internationally including House Beautiful, Dwell, HGTV, Country Living, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Paper, and People Magazine, among others. Dibble has been profiled in Popular Photography Magazine and was named one of The Advocate’s "40 under 40." In addition to the many designers, artists, and architects he works with, other clients include Sunbrella, The Shade Store, Framebridge, Momentum Textiles, and l.a. Eyeworks.
A graduate of Art Center College of Design, he combines his understanding of both portraits and interiors to create images that tell a story. He loves to use color in unexpected ways, capturing images that span from clean elegance to whimsical fun, with his range landing somewhere between editorial storytelling and catalog crispness. A husband, dog guy, and third-generation professional photographer, he splits time between Los Angeles and Portland.