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San Francisco furniture and interior designer Agnes Bourne, whose mansion at 2622 Jackson St. was last year's San Francisco Decorator Showcase, has sold the landmark house to film director Christopher Columbus ("Mrs. Doubtfire") and will donate the $2 million proceeds to the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
Asking price for the house was $5.25 million, and escrow is expected to close at the end of May.
The gift will be used by the museum to meet a June fund-raising deadline. Bourne hopes it will act as "seed money" toward the $7 million total the museum must raise by year's end to finance major renovations and additions.
A branch of the Smithsonian Institution, it is the nation's only museum devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary design. The Smithsonian has...