Daily Find
Walking into new Georgetown shop Great Stuff Vintage Furnishings is like sliding down the rabbit hole -- you just never know what you're going to find. On a recent visit, I spied a vibrant yellow 1930s wooden toy duck from a Tacoma shoe store ($625) alongside a breathtaking ornamental column from the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland ($9,500).
By Alison Brownrigg | March 25, 2008
Daily Find
If you miss Rosanna Bowles’ shop at University Village like I do, you'll be able to get your fix during her Sodo warehouse sale. The Dinnerware Designing Diva, as she’s affectionately known, unloads her overstock of gorgeous goods each year at below-retail prices -- up to 75 percent off.
By Kathy Schultz | May 30, 2007
Daily Find
Marilyn Berg's petite shop is like a precious jewel box you open again and again to admire your prized baubles. The eclectic store is filled with Berg's jewelry, vintage frocks from New York, sterling-silver serving pieces, glassware, alabaster lamps, Isabella Fiore handbags, Berg's own tooled-leather handbags and finds from the ocean like chunks of coral and polished seashells.
By Kathy Schultz | May 23, 2007
Daily Find
Tiempo is one of those old-fashioned, service-oriented businesses-they can pop a new battery in your trendy Skagen wristwatch or repair Grandma's antique mantel clock.
By Kathy Schultz | May 3, 2007
Daily Find
Local boutiques slash prices for spring “Upside-Down” sale By Kathy Schultz NWsource shopping columnist KATHY SCHULTZ Delicious Planet's Roasted...
By Kathy Schultz | March 27, 2007
Daily Find
Feminine styles of previous decades reign at Diva Dollz, a vintage-inspired shop in Pioneer Square. The light-filled shop looks like it has occupied the corner location on First and Cherry, well, for decades. The store's 18-foot high ceilings with crown molding, honeycomb-design flooring and massive chandelier set the stage. An intricately carved wood display case occupies the bulk of one wall and glass display cases are filled with vintage and new jewelry. Ladylike pairs of gloves from the '30s with leather as thin as paper lay casually on the countertop. Red-lipped mannequins swathed in fur pieces peek out beneath wide-brimmed chapeaus.
By Kathy Schultz | February 22, 2007
Life Behind Bars
I remember the sun. It was big and brilliant, it produced warmth, and it would rise in Bellevue and set in Ballard. Seattle once had an entire season of sun -- "summer," I think it was called -- and the city nearly lost its damn mind over it. People sat on beaches, dined on patios and cut back visits to the tanning salon to every other day. I even wore short sleeves.
By Geoff Carter | January 10, 2007
Seattle Style File
By Kathy Schultz NWsource shopping columnist GOODWILL The annual Goodwill Glitter Sale is a bargain hunter's dream. Scheduled in time...
By Kathy Schultz | October 27, 2006
Seattle Style File
In the context of Eric Akines' new boutique on First Avenue, the term "polite society" refers to the quality and tradition of first rate goods. Indeed, that's what you'll find here among the urban decor of canted steel girders, artsy columns and walls stamped with ants to form repetitive patterns. Akines has amassed a wealth of fashion-forward clothing and accessories for men and women, as well as antique and modern home furnishings from around the world.
By Kathy Schultz | September 20, 2006
Life Behind Bars
Located inside the space once occupied by Ballard Hardware (the faded letters of the former occupant's sign are still visible) and between longtime Ballard Avenue magnets Hattie's Hat and the Tractor, King's Hardware is the rarest kind of new bar: From its hardwood fixtures to its wall festooned with tacked-up vintage photos, the place feels as old as the hills. If I were visiting this part of Ballard for the first time, I could easily take King's Hardware for Old Ballard – simply a no-nonsense bar with a pool table, a Skee-Ball machine (why not?), a giant outdoor seating area and a killer menu of burgers 'n' brews. Plus, it has an adjoining door with a new branch of Rudy's Barbershop - so not only can you get a snappy new haircut nearby, but you don't have to walk far for a celebratory, post-shearing cocktail.
By Geoff Carter | September 6, 2006
