Xanadu Gallery, which closed in August 2015, spent a significant sum to restore the building to Wright's vision. The gallery's website reported that it "put the million[-]dollar restoration in the capable hands of
Aaron Green, who had worked with Wright on other projects such as the
Marin Civic Center and was meticulous in maintaining the building's original detail and integrity." The building was reportedly sold to a "high-end designer fashion boutique" as of July 2015 by the
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. The building was occupied – for at least at few weeks in 2016 – by
Gwyneth Paltrow's
goop MRKT, which identifies itself as a "lifestyle [operation], offering a tight curation of products and content." The company's San Francisco store webpage reports, :
We partnered with San Francisco interior designer and arts patron Steven Volpe on a re-imagining of this iconic Frank Lloyd Wright space. A consummate historian, Steven sourced original details to bring back to life as the perfect backdrop to our goop MRKT collaboration. At the same time, though, the same page indicates store's period of operation is with dates (May 5 through May 22 (no year indicated)) and times,. The V.C. Morris Gift Shop was listed in 2007 at number 126 on the
American Institute of Architects' list of the 150 favorite buildings in America. The building is one of seventeen American buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that the
AIA has designated to be retained as an example of his architectural contribution to American culture. File:V.C. Morris Store exterior HABS CAL,38-SANFRA,160-1.jpg File:Morris Gift ramp HABS CAL,38-SANFRA,160-3.jpg File:FLWs V. C. Morris Shop (159607952).jpg File:V.C. Morris Store 2.jpg ==See also==