It’s a 40th anniversary for the company founded by Colin Riggs (left) and Ned Voelker’s parents, Abigail and Ed Voelker. Over the last four decades, the entire family has created a curated collection of handmade tableware and giftware for the nation’s independent store retailers.
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Congratulations on a milestone 40th year in business. Are you surprised Abigails has endured? Ned Voelker: We are surprised. It’s a tribute to Ed and Abbie ...
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BERTIL VALLIEN is a gift to glass. The impressive portfolio of this prolific artist is haunting, memorable, and mesmerizing.
His 60-year career, spent advancing the craft of sand-casting, is a study of one man's existential questioning actualized on hypnotic works of art.
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BERTIL VALLIEN IS A 60-YEAR KOSTA BODA ICON, DESIGNING FOR THE BRAND SINCE 1963.
He is one of Sweden's most celebrated glass artists with numerous awards and museums exhibitions around...
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It was October 2021, and I had just finished my first in-person trends seminar since the pandemic impacted all industry shows. At the end of the image-packed program, an audience member raised her hand and challenged, “Do trends even matter anymore?”
It was a valid question. The pandemic had disrupted business, upended supply chains, transformed education, revealed vulnerabilities, altered priorities, and unexpectedly claimed many lives. The question was tinged with cynicism. Pent...
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MARIPOSA HAS ADDED A NEW CATEGORY WITH THE CLEVERLY TITLED TRAYCHIC, A COLLECTION OF 50 STYLISH HEAT-SAFE TRAYS COMPOSED FROM A STATE-OF-THE-ART RESIN COMPOUND APPROVED FOR FOOD AND SAFE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.
MARIPOSA – the Massachusetts brand launched almost 40 years ago by Livia Cowan, who had a vision that tableware could be created from 100% recycled glass and aluminum – brings that same sustainability agenda to a new category, TrayChic! (exclamation point all theirs). “...
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How we can honor those that came before us in the retail industry.
March 2, 2023
The founder of Juan Pollo Chicken, Albert Okura, passed away last week at the age of 71. Mr. Okura envisioned Juan Pollo, a fast food chain with 25 locations in Southern California, as a household name that would someday sell the most chicken in the world. He believed in this so much that he bought the site of the original McDonald’s restaurant, located in San Bernardino, CA, in 1998—not to turn it into a Juan Pollo restaurant but rather into a museum to honor his fast food industry....
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There’s nothing quite as cozy as grandma’s house. It’s like a warm snuggle of home cooked meals, fresh cut roses from the garden, doilies, chintz, needlepoint, vintage furniture, wallpaper, a breakfront china cupboard, Earl Grey in a collection of English bone china teacups, and lavender oil that soothes the senses and transports you to carefree days of yore.
The Granny Chic or Grandmillennial trend is all the rage, particularly among millennials. It’s an expression of...
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We work hard each day, and likely don’t mind if others notice. We want others to see the ingenuity of our software. But what if that wasn’t the case? If you want an example of someone that got passed by, just ask Van Gogh. Yeah, thaaaaat world-famous, earless, impressionist artist whose work today graces the walls of countless museums. The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is currently running an exhibition showcasing how the world missed appreciating Van Gogh’s...
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Fall is around the corner and we'll be spending more time indoors with engaging games. One of the oldest and most-loved board games has a fresh, new look from MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). Distinguished by an uplifting colorful design inside and out, this high-quality beechwood box backgammon set, is a fun best seller. Stop in the at Shadyside store to check it out.
Bridge welcomes D’Argenta to our Product Syncing service.
D’Argenta features an assortment of home décor from luxury to everyday products that are hand-made by artisans in Mexico. Each unique piece will dazzle your guests and make your home an art museum. Crafted of precious metals, silver, gold, and copper, each piece compliments every room, every season, and every day.
D’Argenta now shares 462 products in 5 collections via Bridge. Please view their synced ...
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There are museums dedicated to sex and ice cream (not the same museum), so why not a museum for dinnerware design? Margaret Carney shares her mission—and passion—in this month’s Tableware Today.
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May 16, 2019
May 16, 2019
We do more than custom framing in our Frame Shop… We help preserve memories. From shadow boxes to photo restoration, museum glass frames, and canvas stretching, our Frame Shop is truly full service.
A cool museum entryway in Italy. What can your store do to catch a customer’s eye?
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July 30, 2018
July 30, 2018
Timo Sarpaneva is the focus of an exhibition at the Design Museum in Helsinki, Finland. He has had enormous influence on two of our Smart Brands partners Iittala and Rosenthal.
Also in the exhibition are photographs that tell some of his story — among them, images of the fantastical, crowd-attracting shop windows (adorned with glass harps and butterflies hanging from invisible wires) that he created for Iittala, the company that hired him in 1950. It was there that he made his name as a glass ...
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March 27, 2018
March 27, 2018
Now available at Royal Gifts Sampson County Barn Quilt coasters. Available in lots of different quit patterns for $34.95 This signature quilt pattern was designed by Ruth Holland. The Sampson County signature design incorporates a milestone which flies into the idea behind “Milling Around”, the Public Art Project downtown Clinton. The four barns around the center of the milestone represents our farming heritage; as well as, the barns located at the Sampson County History Museum.
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February 28, 2018
February 28, 2018
What Is the Perfect Color Worth?
Inside the mysterious art - and big business - of color forecasting.
Last spring, a dozen people filtered into a sunny, whitewashed conference room on the seventh floor of the Royal College of Art, overlooking London's Hyde Park. Mostly Western Europeans from different precincts of the fashion industry, they had been called together by a British man named David Shah, editor and publisher of the "Pantone View Colour Planner." The book, issued each February and ...
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February 26, 2018
February 26, 2018
This is The Clementine Hunter Collection. Her paintings are seen in The Smithsonian Institution, The American Folk Art Museum. Come check out the collection today with us here at Rickey Heromans.
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November 8, 2017
November 8, 2017
3 artists from Botswana visited our studio to make plates with us. They are San Bushmen visiting the Santa Cruz area , showing and selling their art at a special event at the Museum of Art and History Nov.10
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November 2, 2017
November 2, 2017
What's for dinner tonight....introducing our new line Prouna.....it is so exquisite to be displayed in a museum but functional enough to use for your everyday table.
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