While still awaiting the new iMac/POS/ecommerce setup, I started a little tumblr blog. Its called Still Life Musings and its focus is design, music, and any assortment of things that have caught my eye, but aren’t necessarily directly related to the store (although sometimes they will be). I’m constantly bookmarking and saving photos and [...]
Thursday, October 1, 2009
I had a very lovely surprise today while perusing one of my all-time favorite design blogs Design*Sponge. Over the summer, Grace Bonney, bloggetrix extraordinaire, was in the shop and bought a vintage red ceramic horse head lamp. It was one of my favorite vintage finds and I was so thrilled so have someone who’s work [...]
Still Life Mercantile has received its first tag in a magazine! Now this might not sound like much, but being in this retail circus for quite some time, this is a very big deal to me!
HERE is the article online, the print version is by far more beautiful, but nevertheless, any way you read it, [...]
Apartment Therapy just did a wrap up of the Best Modern Menorah’s of 2008 and I was very very pleased to see this one on the list
Its Jonathan Adler’s Skyline Menorah and I have it in the store along with the other JA goodies I’ve mentioned as well as a few more you’ll be hearing [...]
So why not do it with gorgeous flatware? I do not have flatware in the store as of yet (although its on my list of future items to carry) but have been on the hunt for a new pattern for everyday for quite a while. And lets face it, who among us really [...]