This week on SHOPPE ON we shine a light on all the brand spanking newness that exists within our community.
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As part of our celebration of Women’s History Month, please join us for an hour of insight and inspiration with the women behind four Shoppe Object brands dedicated to a greater good...
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Danielle and Joël Cyr, the husband and wife creative duo that own and operate the online home goods boutique June Home Supply…
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From canvas totes for everyday to jeweled clutches for the most special occasions, bags hold our valuables…
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Oh Rose, you beloved of all alpha Goddesses, forever Empress of flowers – we may say you’re not our favorite, but of course we’d be lying. In the Tarot you’re considered a symbol of balance, expressing promise, new beginnings, and hope in your blossoms and defense, physicality, loss, and thoughtlessness in your thorns. You’re edible, your oil heals, your scent intoxicates, and you bloom in a dazzling array of every shape and size. Depending on your color, you represent innocence and purity or secrets and shadows, the very deepest bottom of the well of true love. You encompass everything, complete like a human soul. Devastatingly intense or sweetly ditzy, we honor you, Rose, in all of your magnificent, multifaceted glory. Across tattoos or tea towels, a rose is a rose is a rose, and by any other name let’s face it – you’re downright iconic.
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Expression, identity and expression of identity is all up for grabs now; and being of a certain age, we can’t help but be a little jealous of the freedoms being afforded and instilled in our younger generations. How should a woman or man feel and how should they look? The answers can be myriad, because life is never as simple as any social construct would have you believe. We are all two-spirit, there lies the whole spectrum of male to female and back again within us all. Choose your own adventure, be like water, and take a cue from Madonna; Express Yourself.
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We’re dreaming of parties, literally. Reality has us home, apart, separated, masked and prepared but what we really want to do is swan around a sparkling room with a view, lifted by a cacophony of tinkling glasses and laughter. Parties sometimes mean swishy fabrics, good shoes, sneaking cigs, passed hor d’oeuvres, making out, working up a sweat on the dancefloor, bantering into the wee hours of the morning…but most importantly, no matter the setting, they always mean togetherness – and that’s what we miss most of all. For now, both hosting and attending exist only in our dreams, but we’re looking forward to better days. When the time comes to do it like we used to, we’ll be so ready, with the most swell accouterments for drinking, dining, dancing, and everything in between. Cheers!
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After sunrise, before sunset – you decide. The Golden Time of Day – the one Frankie Beverly and Maze sang about, that photographers endlessly try to chase and capture – casts a glow that deepens feelings. The golden hour is when the veil between everything right in front of you and the deepest recesses of your mind thins, when knowingness flows like honey from a spout. It is wheat fields and expansive plains, it is goldenrod and 24 karats, honeybees and citrine. It is wisdom, wealth and knowledge and we’re lucky to get a taste of it on every sunny day. When clouds come in to cover, get in the zone with treasures in every shade of yellow and gold.
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Sometimes bucking good old common sense and going against the grain can be a bad thing – think wild conspiracy theories that undermine evidence-based science or America’s love affair with guns (why?). But sometimes embracing the absurd, or antithesis of common sense, can be a path to freedom. Life itself is pure absurdity on parade. Planet earth too. How else to consider the Weedy Sea Dragon of the Australian coral reefs – have you ever seen them? Simply absurd! The unbelievable is all around us, as we look up into the night sky and even when two colors sit beside each other in smaller applications and bring each other to life. Veering completely off the expected course lends food for thought, fun, and allows us to think differently. Without the absurd we can’t imagine, and we can’t dream.
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In May 2020 the world bore witness to George Floyd murdered at the hands of police in Minneapolis – an event that ignited a global uprising of demonstrations demanding the end of police brutality and a dismantling of systemic racism. While the work for freedom and equality has been happening in movements for hundreds of years, the events of last summer fueled a new rallying cry for individuals, institutions and companies across the spectrum of American life to confront a necessary and ongoing, urgent reckoning to build a better, anti-racist society. In solidarity with the movement, Shoppe Object launched a Black Lives Matter Action Initiative (BLMAI) to support, foster and proactively showcase Black-owned brands. We understand deeply that black perspectives, voices, dreams, economies, and businesses matter, and that a more representational community for the home and gift market, means a better market for all of us…
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Here we are, on the precipice of Earth's next orbit around the Sun, and this much we know: we made it. We did good. We slowed down, took stock and found our footing. We pivoted, found strength in our resolve, and supported our friends and neighbors. There are so many things to ponder as we leave this lemon of a year behind us… so much to untangle and to process, to reinvent and reimagine. It is daunting and formidable, and frankly quite exciting. It will take hard work and patience, sure, but rest assured – we have learned a ton, and there will be more lemonade. We will continue to create new ways of being, new ways of seeing, and new ways of working that make room for what’s most important: more quality, more living, more time.
We welcome you, 2021. We look forward to getting to know you. One day at a time.
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Games, puzzles and playing cards took on a new role in our lives in 2020, providing focus, connection and escape through an often rough, always unconventional year. No matter how you’ve lived your lockdown... indoors, working remotely while simultaneously homeschooling the kids, or passing the time alone, with friends and family at a distance and long stretches of unoccupied time, it’s a safe bet that honing your jigsaw skills or playing a few rounds of solitaire proved a great way to punctuate the weeks and months that seemed to stretch on forever. As we round out the year, let’s keep hold of these mindful acts of engagement that helped beguile the time while keeping us sharp and sane. Whether satisfyingly solo or all together around a multigenerational table — play on, players. Play on.
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We’re not quite there yet, but in this season of great transition we can finally start to see the forest for the trees. As we approach the end of 2020, placing one particularly hard-earned ring around the tree of life, we celebrate all things dendrological; the intrinsic flexibility and elemental beauty, the scent and sensuality, the innate symbol of growth and stalwart strength that is, wood. Whether smooth or rough-hewn, uniquely against the grain or plainly presented in olive, oak, ash, alder, mango or mahogany, we are tree huggers through and through, in love with the precious properties of this most natural element. This source of fire, this most ancient and replenishable material that has been bent and burnt, chamfered and chiseled, drilled, dovetailed, patched, planed, sanded and stained by the artist and the artisan for as far back as civilization has been recorded. Its roots run deep. We want it now, and always. We’re going out on a limb and guessing you feel the same.
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Thomas O’Brien is an interior and home furnishings designer and author based in New York City and Long Island. He is the founder of Aero Studios, one of America’s leading design firms, and the creator of popular home furnishings from lighting, furniture, and carpets to tableware and unique ranges of accessories. At heart, he is a lifelong collector who brings together things old, new, and from all parts of the globe, as a shopkeeper in his own stores. In 1992 Thomas opened Aero, his original store, as the retail extension of his studio. In 2016 he and his husband, designer Dan Fink, opened a modern country general store and gourmet market, Copper Beech, in the seaside Long Island village of Bellport. Equal parts hometown, nautical and classically French in inspiration, Copper Beech celebrates the pairing of home and travel in a hand-picked assortment of goods, gifts, and culinary favorites for the household, kitchen, and garden.
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What would we do without the warp and the weft? What would we sleep in, dress up in, or curl up by the fire in? What would we dry ourselves off with, and what soft surfaces would we walk upon? Without these two basic ingredients that fashion thread or yarn into fabric, what would we make our beds with, cover our cushions in, or rest our silverware upon? Seriously – textiles define practically everything we love and rely on in our daily lives… from our underwear to the drapes that give us privacy, from the macrame objet that dress up our walls and hanging plants, to the ubiquitous masks we now wear upon our faces. This week we celebrate all things woven, spun, knit or loomed, stitched, crocheted, knotted and tatted or felted and braided, with a special appreciation for the conscious effort to develop sustainable production practices that support both the planet and the maker, in soft and sumptuous harmony.
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Michele Varian is a designer and shop owner based in New York. Having launched her first shop in SoHo almost 20 years ago, she recently moved both her shop and fabrication studio to Brooklyn's Atlantic Ave, where she joined a robust community of independent, owner operated design and retail businesses. She designs her own collections of textiles, lighting, wallpaper and furniture, which are made locally.
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