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By: San Francisco Day Three: Sonoma County « The Garden of Words

San Francisco Day Three: Sonoma County « The Garden of Words — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:19:32 +0000

[...] we went up to Sonoma County to visit the Cornerstone shops, including Artefact (recommended by Susan Cohan). After the Cornerstone, we went into downtown Sonoma and walked around the square. Here’s [...]

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:56:16 +0000

I love the displays depicted above from Artefact. How did you extricate yourself from any of the garden shops? I’m sort of happy that I cannot attend the SFGS this year. While the Bay Area is one of my favorite places, I have a lot of dough-saving to do before I venture west. Thanks for the virtual tour in the meantime.

Thanks Lynn. Artefact was impressive in its presentation and selection. There were so many ideas there to extract and use in a garden.

By: Christina Salwitz

Christina Salwitz — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:54:08 +0000

Thanks very much for the great shop tour. As I also studied and worked in Fashion before Horticulture the corollary is not lost on me! Some nurseries could really learn a few lessons from this as well. (Other than Annie’s of course
Your post will be my base shopping guide for when I come visit SF for the Flower and Garden Show soon. Hopefully, dragging my husband along for week will pay off when he’s helping me lug all my treasure home!
Christina

I hope you have a car! They’re not close to each other…as for buying…there’s shipping!

By: Robert Webber

Robert Webber — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:56:23 +0000

When I was ‘just’ a gardener, I never saw the need to call myself a ‘horticulturalist’, although that was what my qualification specified!

Fascinating view of those shops-thanks!

Best Wishes

Robert

Funny Robert…we sometimes don’t really recognize who are what we really are…glad you liked your virtual shopping trip!

By: Marina Berger

Marina Berger — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:34:33 +0000

Curating has become quite the buzzword apparently. Everyone is doing it from dj’s to bloggers to retailers. I am attaching an interesting article I found on the subject. To me I don’t care what they call it as long as the pieces are great! Thoroughly enjoyed the article and the pictures. It makes me want to visit!

http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/newspin.cfm

Thanks for the link. I agree if the pieces are great…visit if you can!

By: Michelle D.

Michelle D. — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:18:03 +0000

Wonderfully insightful commentary about merchandising vs. curating.
Each location has its own special brand of identity and your captured it right on the money.
Enjoyable reading of your keen perspective.

By: James A-S

James A-S — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:43:27 +0000

There are some great things here (also some not so great): am particularly drawn to the concrete stool: possibly because it is going to be really heavy.
Also like the cafe tables and chairs but the basket full of old horns leaves me a bit cold.

The old horns? They were kind of cool sculpturally but I see what you mean. I didn’t even think about them in terms of horns–too busy soaking up the surroundings.

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:49:52 +0000

I’d better keep working my pah-toot off, because I’m gonna need some money to spend during my trip to SFGS!

Great pics, and thank you for planning this little shopping itinerary for me (us)!

Each of these shops as you can see has a different personality. They are spread out in California fashion…I had a car!