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Here we go! We'll be closed Tuesday and Wednesday this week while we spruce ourselves up: we're getting a fresh coat of paint, and re-arranging our space to better display our new direction: adding contemporary second hand boutique items. It's time people, climate change is no joke.

New and fabulous pieces are already streaming in..

Come check us out next week.. we're excited!!

xoDiana

Join us on Friday evening 9/6 to welcome Jenny Belin and her Portraits of Women show back into the store.

Jenny's paintings of an ever-changing assortment of women is a source of perpetual joy. The subjects bridge the professional spectrum: from artists and writers to mathematicians, activists, icons, justices, and more.

Inspired by the desire to see more women represented in the public sphere, the show aims to do just that.

Come see them for yourself.

Reception is Friday evening, September 6th from 5-7pm

Show will b up in the store through October.

In honor of this weekend's extreme weather, we're having a fire sale. See what I did there?? 

Seriously, though, EVERYTHING is on sale; already reduced items, jewelry, and art included.

Shop online with code HEATWAVE

or come visit us in-store.

xo

It's all the way summer and all I want to wear is cotton gauze and all I want to do is eat cucumber salads, read books, look at art and the sky.

We have replenished Prairie Underground's excellent cotton gauze separates.. don't miss them, they flew out of the store last time. The generous pockets on the pants are fab, and the shapes easy, flattering, cool.. in both meanings of the word.

Tess Michalik's paintings are gracing our walls, and living amongst them is a treat. A customer who happened upon us last weekend was moved to tears by them. What a gift to allow yourself to be moved by art! Don't deprive yourself. Stop in.

I wandered past the Diane Von Furstenberg store on West 14th Street recently and was thrilled to see Ashley Longshore's show celebrating iconic and inspiring women in the exuberant, campy way that only she can. I solidly recommend it.

And finally, make a beeline for the Tiny Pricks show at Lingua Franca NYC. The brainchild of fiber artist and activist Diana Weymar, but executed by oh so many hands, the store's walls are covered with pieces creatively embroidered with *45's most egregious statements. 

I appreciate people (female shop owners for the win here) using their platforms and their spaces to generate conversation, initiate thought, expand the necessary idea that being a citizen of the planet and this country means engaging with each other and looking out for one another, amplifying what you want to see more of, and calling out the bullshit when you see it.

Happy July. Come see me. Come shop, come chat, come hang out.

Oh yeah, and LOTS of things are on SALE.

On Tuesday June 11th we'll be celebrating the opening of Tess Michalik's show, The Progress of Love. Tess's work moves me. Her paintings are layered and the paint is thick. She gestures toward decorative interiors: wallpapers and elaborate finishes, sometimes explicitly and sometimes more impressionistically. The paintings are luxurious and rich while expressing both freedom and claustrophobia. I adore them. I want to eat them. 

I hope you come see for yourself.. as much as they reproduce beautifully, and they do, they are so much better in person.

As an added bonus, and also a stylistic counterpoint, we will also be joined by Althea Simons and her collection, Grammar NYC. Althea makes crisp white, and occasionally black, shirts out of organic cotton. They are manufactured here in NY and fulfill all my minimalist dreams: elegant in their simplicity, fresh and clean.

Last week we welcomed ceramic artist Gregory Knopp into the store for a trunk show. His cacti and egg-shaped air plant receptacles are gorgeous and wild. They reminded me a little of Louise Bourgeois' spidery and alien work. I love them. 

I convinced him to leave a nice assortment with us, so if you missed it, you're in luck. 

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