05 September 2024

Under the Awining: E&M Books: Saturday, Sept. 14th

We're welcoming Eugénie Torroella of E&M Books Saturday, September 14th. A NYC based stylist, image consultant, and neighbor, Eugénie will offer a variety of fashion mags, photography books, and look books from her collection/other venture, E&M Books. 

You're going to find a variety of fashion magazines, photography books and look books mainly from the 1990’s to mid 2000’s. Some of the publications included will be: W Magazine, Paris Vogue, Italian Vogue, Self Service, V Magazine, Purple Magazine, The Journal and Another Magazine. Books on Juergen Teller, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jack Pierson, Marc Jacobs and Martin Margiela among many more.

We're hoping for a beautiful Fall day and if that doesn't happen, we'll arrange a rain date. Hope you can come through. 

Shop hours starting Sept.9 are Tuesday-Friday 11a-6p, Saturday 10a-4p. 


30 June 2024

Summer Shop Hours

We're embracing a Summer downshift. Hoping you will too. 
Look left for abbreviated shop hours.

*Closed Saturday, August 3rd & Saturday, August 31st.


11 May 2024

Sherry Olsen: Painted Plates, Works on Paper, Sculpture

Sherry Olsen was born in Los Angeles and grew up during the Jimmy Carter ’70s. Her father was a carpenter. Both her mother and grandfather were latent artists who encouraged and championed her art. Rather than going to art school, she traveled in her late teens and throughout her twenties, learning on the road. She picked up printmaking in Hamburg, glass work in Paris, and metalwork in County Kilkenny, Ireland. She eventually settled in Northern California, where she now lives and works.

Her work has been described as that of “a child who knows what they are doing.” She loves Art Brut, folk art, and the art of children. She works across a variety of mediums and thrives on the cross-pollination between them. Her work is widely collected by art lovers around the world.

We first became acquainted with Sherry's work through her surface design collaboration with Fog Linen Work. In 2009, at our shop in Brookline, we showed and sold these printed linen goods alongside Sherry’s other work which included small works on paper and sculpture. It was a wonderful small exhibit. This past February, we made a point of visiting her in Berkeley where we pulled together the idea for a new show. It includes painted plates created for Pod, one-of-a-kind works on paper including mixed media and collage, and sculpture. 

This exhibit will run in-store & online, May 15-31.

*20% of all Sherry Olsen plate sales will be donated to Community Cooks.
Community Cooks is a local organization that connects caring volunteer cooks, the human services sector, businesses, civic groups, schools, and faith-based institutions to form a dynamic, growing community with a common goal: to feed our neighbors in need and increase their ability to thrive.