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Bahdeebahdu
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The most spectacular of the North Third Street shops in Philadelphia has to be bahdeebahdu. Here, lighting designer Warren Muller displays one-of-a-kind pieces made of reclaimed products. Vintage children’s toys, glass vials, bedsprings, old tools—no castoff is unaesthetic in Muller’s eyes. Bahdeebahdu’s interior furnishings were selected by R. J. Thornburg, with whom Muller opened the 2,300-square-foot showroom in spring 2002. (via Elements of Living)
Updated Apr 12, 2006
Philadelphia Print Shop
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An alternative to the artsy Manayunk neighborhood in Philadelphia is the dreamlike Chestnut Hill, the heart of which is tidy Germantown Avenue. First stop on this cobblestone-lined street is the Philadelphia Print Shop, founded in 1982 by Donald H. Cresswell and Christopher W. Lane, a Library of Congress veteran and budding philosopher, respectively. The duo, whom you might have seen on <i>Antiques Road Show</i>, has amassed a collection of prints dating from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Woodcuts, engravings and lithographs feature famous Philadelphians, botanicals and antique maps. (via Elements of Living)
Updated Apr 12, 2006
Moderne Gallery
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Moderne Gallery presents another excellent selection, mostly from the first half of the twentieth century. A wood carving of a worker, in WPA style, was particularly eye-catching, though it played second fiddle to a large exhibition of work by master mid-century furniture designer George Nakashima, who worked nearby, just outside New Hope, Pennsylvania. (via Elements of Living)
Updated Apr 12, 2006
Gallery51
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Craig Wallen, a former consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, runs Gallery 51, a showcase for his tribal carpets and weavings from the Middle East and central Asia. His recent show shifted the spotlight to Africa, New Guinea, Borneo and Burma and featured ceremonial and functional objects made of beaten bark cloth, woven cane, tied and dyed raffia and twisted bark string. (via Elements of Living)
Updated Apr 12, 2006
Marie Colette
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Where some of us merely deal in the past, Philidelphia-based Marie Colette <i>lives</i> in it. Her specialty is tempera painting, a technique usually associated with the walls of Renaissance churches and Baroque mansions. Colette, a French émigré, carries on the tradition with interior projects around the region. You’ll also find painted furniture for sale in her narrow little shop on Germantown Avenue (take care not to miss the fading hand-painted sign). If you’re lucky enough to be in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood on a Monday, call Colette ahead of time and you can grab a slot in her weekly studio class. (via Elements of Living)
Updated Apr 12, 2006
Elizabeth Stuart Design
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Middle King (between Market and Calhoun streets) in Charleston, South Carolina has been largely taken over by chain stores, but en route to Upper King, stop in at ESD, Elizabeth Stuart Design. The shop reflects the willingness of owner and interior designer Elizabeth Faith to layer color, style and period into a mix that feels utterly modern. Alongside a sixteenth-century secretary and oversize cork lamps from the 1970s are contemporary dog portraits by Heather LaHaise, cloudscapes by Sean McNamara and richly glazed oyster plates by ceramist Alison Evans. (via Elements of Living)
Updated Apr 12, 2006
Urban Electric Company
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Urban Electric Co., with its suave logo, theatrical windows and polished manner of displaying wares in a spacious showroom, sends a clear message that history can be a helpmate rather than a handcuff. Historically inspired lamps, sconces and chandeliers by creative director Michael Amato and designers Amelia Handegan, Mark Maresca and Justin Walling suit a contemporary loft in Tribeca every bit as much as a Charleston single house. Every fixture, including copper lanterns by master craftsman John Gantt, is handmade locally. (via Elements of Living)
Updated Apr 12, 2006
Historic Charleston Foundation
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Getting oriented in Charleston is as easy as falling into a post-prandial nap. Much of the historic area is south of Broad Street; the main commercial artery is King Street, originally an old Indian path named for King George I. Start your exploration where the two streets intersect, at the Historic Charleston Foundation Shop. The Foundation, in collaboration with such manufacturers as Baker Furniture and Mottahedeh, faithfully reproduces antiques from private houses as well as from its own collections. The selection includes cast-metal shutter dogs (decorative hardware that holds shutters and comes in the shape of shells, anchors, butterflies and other forms), English Regency chairs, and Chinese export porcelain in the Blue Willow and Sacred Bird and Butterfly patterns. The Foundation also produces a paint palette, Colors of Historic Charleston, so you can do your own exporting and introduce a bit of Charleston back home. (via Elements of Living)
Updated Apr 12, 2006
Grimmer Roche
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Like many dealers of American Indian, or "First American," art, Mac Grimmer, of the appointment-only Grimmer Roche, started out as a collector. After moving to Santa Fe from LA, Grimmer renovated a historic building on Canyon Road and opened the Morning Star Gallery in 1982. Twelve years later, as the finest First American art became rarer and rarer, he sold the gallery and began to deal privately. Earlier this year, Grimmer invited David Roche, then director of Indian art at Sotheby’s in New York, to become his partner. Grimmer Roche’s aesthetic approach is encyclopedic connoisseurship (the average sale is $25,000). They deal in what they describe as "the top 15 percent" of American tribal art, which includes Plains Indians war shirts, Northwest masks and rattles, classic Navajo blankets, and pottery and baskets. The partners plan to open a small by-appointment space downtown this fall, "a beautiful white-wall gallery," as Roche describes it, that will continue to "take First American work out of the trading-post mentality, so people can see it as the art that it is." (via Elements of Living)
Updated Apr 12, 2006
Jackalope
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You won’t find museum-quality goods at Jackalope, which sprawls over six acres on Cerrillos Road, a commercial artery that extends from downtown Santa Fe to outlying neighborhoods; but it is a trip in both senses of the word. The visitor is greeted by hundreds of huge, high-fired, high-color pots. Beyond is a building full of mostly inexpensive Latin American and Asian textiles, pottery, hardware, clothing, CDs, rugs, linens and tchotchkes. Head out the back door for antique and vintage garden accoutrements, open-air booth after booth of antiques, jewelry and crafts, and a building full of Asian furniture. As you should everywhere in this city, wear a hat to protect yourself from the sun, and take your time. If you shop at the pace at which Santa Fe runs, or rather, ambles, you may be lucky enough to stay there for the rest of your life. (via Elements of Living)
Updated Apr 12, 2006
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