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Beverly Willis at a construction site in 1982. She created several destination buildings in San Francisco / Library of Congress

Ms. Willis got her start as a designer in Hawaii, where she studied fresco painting under the painter and muralist Jean Charlot. Most memorably, she designed the Shell Bar of the Hawaiian Village Hotel on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, embedding Pacific Ocean seashells into the bar and tabletops — an early example of how nature inspired her work.

She returned to San Francisco in 1958 to open a design office, which handled furniture projects, office interiors and the occasional supermarket remodeling. Most ambitiously, she was asked to convert three Victorian homes on Union Street into a retail and restaurant complex.

An imaginative writer and thinker steeped in both classic mythology and contemporary psychology, Ms. Willis understood with this project just how much preserving details from the past — wrought-iron rails, gaslights and gingerbread cornices included — could appeal to a modern consumer.

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