You probably know Alena Hennessy for her lovely silk-screened scarves and t-shirts that we carry (and can’t keep on the shelves) at Click! During September, we’re highlighting this multi-faceted artist with a show of delicate paintings in her signature style. Saturday, September 11, we are hosting an opening of Alena’s newest work — opalescent watercolors and finely rendered pen & ink drawings on handmade paper.
Stop by from 5-8pm and meet Alena (who is as sweet as her delicious art!), enjoy delicious refreshments and treats, and fall in love with her paintings. We’ll also have an expanded selection of her t-shirts and scarves on hand if you prefer to wear her art.
Summer in Seattle was short but sweet, and so is our sale! For the last two weeks of summer some of our favorite designs are discounted, from handmade ceramic mugs to our own concrete and cork jewelry.
A few visual highlights:
Highway bags are all 40% off
Slip lighting is 10-30% off, and includes both in store purchases and special orders
And all ceramics are 20-50% off, like these darling salt and pepper shakers from PMO Design. (We LOVE these!)
Pop in the store to check out the rest of our items, from 25% off Smersh Design jewelry to half-price Pantone mugs! We’re here Tuesday-Friday 12-7, Saturday & Sunday 11-5.
This is a wonderfully designed reusable bag! Flip & Tumble bags quickly fold into a stretchy pouch, creating a small portable ball. Bags come in awesome contrasting color combinations, have a reinforced shoulder to prevent slipping, and made of ripstop nylon which can hold up to 25 pounds. Each bag is $9.50.
We also have the Flip & Tumble produce bags, which makes it easy to ditch the plastic at the grocery. Perfect for farmer’s market season! A set of five reusable bags is $12.
If you’ve visited Click! in the last few weeks, you’ll have noticed some new lighting adorning our storefront. Meet Graypants, a Seattle-based design company that’s transforming scrap corrugated cardboard into well-designed and eco-friendly lighting.
“Disc” pendant lamp
We love the clean design and the amazing shadows that these lights create, and it doesn’t hurt that they’re eco-friendly and locally made, too! See more images and info here.
“Callisto” pendant lamp
We are currently stocking the Disc lamp (12″ diameter, $279) and the Callisto lamp (10″ diameter, $229) in both hardwire and swag configurations. Other styles will be available to order.
Joseph Joseph, a company specializing in kitchen accessories, was founded by twin brothers Richard and Antony Joseph in 2003. Their designs are cleverly well-designed and affordable, and a perfect addition to Click!
The Index Chopping Boards keeps your food prep safe and organized with four color-coded boards — each set $65
The Chop2Pot folding cutting board easily transports chopped veggies to their destination — $15 each
The Hands On Bowl cleverly stores your servers until needed — $40
And soon to be expected, the Y Grinder! Salt and pepper (finally!) share a grinder. $40.
Designed in 1972 by two Montreal industrial designers, Fabio Fabiano and Michelange Panzini, the chair quickly became a quintessential icon adorning roadside motels and backyards across North America. This comfortable and well-designed chair is hailed as a classic of Canadian design, and is once again cropping up in our urban landscape.
We have the Solair chair in four cheerful colors — lime green, orange, blue, and yellow — for $130 each. Welcome summer to your backyard with these sunny classics!
We just got word that the summer Orla Kiely bags will be delivered this Thursday, June 24th. Add those to the recent Queen Bee arrivals and the nice stock of Highway bags, and you’ve got the makings of a fabulous handbag event, which is just what we’re going to do this Friday the 26th, from 6 to 9 pm.
We’re partnering with The Ruby Room, a national organization with a local chapter that dresses up teenage girls in formal wear they would otherwise be unable to afford. Bring a gently used handbag to donate to The Ruby Room, and receive 20% off the purchase of your new handbag at Click!
If you’re not able to make it Friday night, we are accepting donations (and giving discounts) all weekend long.
UPDATE 6/23/10: We will accept as many items as you wish to donate to The Ruby Room, however there is a limit of one discount per customer.
UPDATE 6/24/10: They’re here! Classic Shoulder Bag (pictured), “Midi” Sling Bag, and Laptop bag!
Well, it doesn’t quite feel like it in Seattle, but summer is upon us. This (should) mean lots of quality time on the patio, sipping your beverage of choice in our long-lasting summer twilight.
We procured our notNeutral Hurricane lanterns to help light such occasions — in five summery colors and two lovely patterns. They are a treat to look at during the day, and cast fabulously intricate shadows when lit at night.
A pair of lanterns with pillar candles (and you get to mix and match the color and pattern) is a mere $32. Happy summer!
Click! is in love with the new work from PMO Design, located in Montreal, CA. We just got in a collection of (the cutest!) salt and pepper shakers and lovely cozy mugs. We have a flock of shakers ready to be paired up, taken home, and join you at your table. These little guys/gals are individually handmade, giving each one their own personality. You can choose a white & white pair or a black & white pair for only $25. So cute!
PMO Design also creates handmade ceramic mugs snuggled inside cozies. Each cozy is hand-knit by the designer’s mom(!) and is machine-washable and dryer-safe. The mugs come in two sizes; a small is $21 and large is $25.
We’ve got a new line of rockin’ dinnerware at Click! Designed by Paul Timman, a world-renowned tattoo artist who frequently inks rock stars and A-list celebs (clients include Busta Rhymes, Tommy Lee, and members of Led Zeppelin) Ink Dish is a line of tattoo-inspired plates and mugs. Timman’s “Tribal Lines” and “Irezumi” gift sets are currently gracing our window display here in the store. Made of the highest quality porcelain, these elegant and exceptionally unconventional dishes are also microwave and dishwasher safe. Uber-cool and low-maintenance!
Irezumi dinner plate detail
We also heart Ink Dish because of their exemplary production standards. Designed in San Diego, CA, their partner factory in Bangladesh pays living wages, provides their employees three breaks a day with food and is staffed with a full-time doctor for employees and their families. How can you not love that?
side plate gift (set of 4) $52
mug gift (set of 2) $27
Thanks to all of you who turned out for such a fun, jewel-filled night at Click! last Saturday! We had an absolute blast hanging out with the inspiring Dawn Benedetto and pawing through her collection of happy, colorful baubles.
Dawn chatting it up with party guests
Great news — we’re lucky enough to have our entire poppi collection around until the end of May, so if you didn’t get a chance to visit Click! for the party or are needing a second fix, you still have your chance. Please note that we’re keeping poppi’s fabulously popular rings in stock indefinitely — they’re certainly a store favorite.
And since Mother’s Day is just around the corner (ahem — this Sunday, May 9th), we just thought it should be mentioned that poppi’s Cluster earrings and her Roe and Petal rings have been a big hit with the ladies.
It seems like everybody is having trunk shows these days. So what’s the big deal?
The big deal is that a trunk show of poppi jewelry, complete with poppi creator Dawn Benedetto, is sure to be the most fun you’ve had on May Day since that time you first danced around a May pole and realized the meaning of it all.
Famous for her one-size-fits-all rings, Dawn will be bringing her full line of fantabulous jewelry including bracelets, earrings and pendants in the classic poppi ring style. She’ll also have vintage lucite rings and “change-out” “Roper” earrings , full of color and fun.
Most of all, there will be rings, rings, and rings. Poppi rings are flirty and fun. The genius of their design is that all of her rings fit a range of sizes, which means you don’t have to worry about how your fingers change size with the weather. It also means they are very giftable. Did we mention Mother’s Day is coming right up?
Saturday, May 1. Artist reception 5pm to 8pm. Snacks and bubbles for the invitees. RSVP on our Facebook page.
From personal experience, I know that keeping up with a seasonal fashion schedule is tough as a designer/maker. Coming out with fresh, compelling design at least twice a year is challenging on it’s own but designing is only the beginning! A maker needs to source and inventory new materials, teach new techniques to assistants who will help with making, document and price pieces accordingly and promote the new work in order to have a successful season. Hats off to the Queen Bee crew! They do it so well and we are happy to have their summer handbags and wallets in store at Click!
Shown are “puddle jump” Truckette $98, and “loops” Maximo wallet $48
Also selected bags from fall/winter discounted 20%! (including those awesome industrial felt bags!)
Well, actually all week long. To celebrate Daylight Savings Time, we’re having a sale on all of our lighting, clocks, and handbags (which have very little to do with changing the clocks, other than that perhaps you change your handbag twice a year… right?). The sale is on through Sunday March 21st. Spring forward!
Clocks: New this week are bright colored clocks by Morito Yoshi, and we’re introducing them at 20% off. All of our other clocks, including Umbra’s Big Time, Ribbon, and Prima (the wood grain one behind the counter, shown here) are 30% off.
We just received our first shipment of stunningly gorgeous lamps from slip., straight out of North Carolina. The pendant lamps come in a number of sizes and shapes, but it’s the fabric we fell in love with:
Just when we caught our breath, along came the table lamps, with such groovy curves and exquisite detail (notice how the top ceramic piecefinial [thanks Charles] matches the base) that we were immediately sold.
Best of all, they are very reasonable priced: The pendant lamps are $148 including hardwire kit, and the desk lamps start at $182.
As is typical a few weeks after the trade shows, we’ve been seeing a lot of our favorite UPS driver lately. One of the new favorites in the store is the “Blackberry” tray from Red Vanilla. White porcelain, hand painted with a pattern that pairs nicely with the Modern Twist “Tree of Us” coasters (that’s what we call Design That Fits).
The tray measures 8″ x 19.5″, and is only $34. Astute observers will notice in the background a product we haven’t had in the store for a while: the wine butler, which is a Swiss-Army-Knife-like multi-tool perfect for the wine lover.
Another new arrival is this sweet furniture from InModern. Check out the end tables, paired with some sweet ceramics (and a Woolyhoodwink):
and the coffee table (could be a great kids table), stacked with an InModern stool and a several QueenBee bags and wallets:
Again with the background: check out the Bike Parking sign, $36, new from FluffyCo.
Often times customers will recommend products to us, which they are usually apologetic about. As it turns out, we love to hear from our peeps when they find Design That Fits.
One such recent recommendation was the Mighty Wallet. Mighty Wallet™ is a Tyvek® wallet that is water-resistant, tear-resistant, recyclable, and made of recycled materials. At only $15 each, they make a great little gift for your Valentine.
We have several designs available in the store, and hope to have them available for purchase online soon. Please call or email to order if you are not in our area. UPDATE: Select designs are now available for purchase from our web store. Call or email if the design you want is not show there.
We’ve wrapped up our trade show adventures with several last minute purchases including clocks, re-usable lunch bags, and a new greeting card line. Yesterday we finally ordered a line that we fell in love with at the last show: ceramics by Ink Dish, which feature designs by famous tattoo artist Paul Timman. We’ll have the plates and mugs in two separate patterns, available individually and in gift boxes.
And for those of you who need your cute fix, you can has some canvas bags by Japanese designer Shinzi Katoh. We always love ordering in this booth. The nice thing about these bags (besides their super-cuteness) is that they close at the top.
We took the trade show with great alacrity today, cheerfully attacking the aisles of Accent on Design, Studio, Details, and Tabletop. We came upon the booth of JosephJoseph, a British design team whose early glass dishes were part of our opening inventory at Click! five years ago. They’re now doing a full kitchen line, including these indexed cutting boards (that we first heard about over at Shelterrific!) and a salad bowl they call “Hands On”:
The hands detach to become salad servers. Look for these at Click! in late April.
Downstairs in Details, we visited one of our favorite designers: Jem Filipi from Highway. As you can see, she has new colors for spring, and Frances is modeling one of the new leather bags in her line.
• Posted by John on February 2, 2010.
• Filed under: click, in store
Today is Frances’s birthday, so we took a day off from the trade show to go ice skating in Central Park with Stephanie Hargrave. Then we went to MoMA, where we took in the amazing Tim Burton show. Frances found the atrium to be a work of art in and of itself:
Tomorrow it’s back to the show for Accent on Design and Tabletop!
• Posted by John on January 31, 2010.
• Filed under: art
