Stores we Love
The Big Picture: Peace Industry
By Regina M. Connell. Girl meets boy. (She: originally from Miami, art school in Chicago, fashion in NYC. He: from Iran, the son of a small factory owner in Tehran, emigrated to the U.S. at age 13 just before the … Continue reading
Posted in SF Bay Area, Stores we Love, TEXTILES+PAPER, The big picture
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Profile: Anna Hillegass/Foundry Home Goods Store
By Anna Hoeschen. “What’s your story?” That’s one of those questions we’ve been hearing a lot recently. Sometimes we hear stories are perfectly constructed works of fiction. Sometimes we hear the complete truth. The problem with words is that they … Continue reading
Posted in Box 2, DESIGN, PLACES WE LOVE, Stores we Love
Tagged Anna Hillegass, Curation, Holly Hunt, Minneapolis, Store, The Foundry Home Goods Store
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The Craft of Curation: Giselle Gyalzen Rare Device
By Regina Connell. Picture this. An uninspired stretch of San Francisco’s Market Street in a no-man’s land between four slowly gentrifying neighborhoods. An independent store/gallery, selling a little bit of this and that for the home, with nary a major … Continue reading
Posted in Box 3, Heroes and Heroines, PLACES WE LOVE, SF Bay Area, Stores we Love, The big picture
Tagged Curation, Home accessories, NOPA, rare device, San Francisco Bay Area, Store
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Noticed: Yvonne Mouser @SFMCD
By Regina Connell. Spotted at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design‘s Pop Up exhibit at the Proxy Project on Hayes Street: this curious, beautiful, oddly emotionally resonant item. But is it sculpture? Or something functional? I had no … Continue reading
Posted in NOTICED, SF Bay Area, Stores we Love, WOOD
Tagged Proxy Project, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, Superstition Broom
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