Product of the Day!

Company: Chilewich About: I found this cool time line of making of Chilewich, check it out here: http://chilewich.com/about/history#/0 All of Chilewich place mats, no everything is incredibly classic and timeless with a splash of color. I am in love with the green mats. I didn't even realize they had a darker green and white strip on one side until I took it off the shelf! It made me love it even more. Prices of mats shown: white = $9 each, Basket weave and Green = $17 each.

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Company: Moufelt Artist: Jeannie Lai About:

MOUFELT.llc is an independent design studio started in 2007 by Jeanie Lai to explore wool felt and its endless design possibilities. Modern design is combined with one of the oldest known textile to create tactile fashion and home accessories for everyday life.

All products are made in Oregon using 100% pure wool felt, a sustainable and renewable resource. Traditional hand felting techniques as well as industrial felts are used to create our products.

Jeanie Lai is a Portland Oregon-based designer. With a background in architecture, Jeanie combines craft with her modern graphic style to create designs that feature the intrinsic qualities of her favorite material, wool felt.

Let's face it, these necklaces are just cute. Made with only wire cable and felt Jeannie makes wonderfully adorable and unique pieces. She also makes the green felt rug I featured in a past "product of the day"! These could be a great gift for anyone, young and old. Prices range $32-$42. Come check out her work!

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Artist: Pablo Pardo Location: San Francisco About: The interpretation of light in its many forms, refined design solutions, and a distinctive timeless style; these are the underlying elements of Pablo's design mission. At the forefront of American lighting design, Pablo's designs exemplify an uncompromising devotion to simplicity and usefulness, fusing the highest technical sensibilities with the most appropriate material pallet to create unique and precious designs that transform any environment. Pablo was formed in 1993 by Venezuelan born industrial designer Pablo Pardo and has established its studio in San Francisco. A 1986 graduate from the University of Cincinnati's renowned industrial design program, his diverse career includes designing children's roller skates for Fisher Price to creating automobile concepts for Daimler Chrysler. The studio has gained international recognition for its innovative lighting and home furnishings designs which are characterized by their unique sense of style and simplicity. I love when artists bring in strong concepts into their work. Pablo isn't just making a lamp. He wants to create something illuminates your life rather that just create light.

Product and Discussion of the Day!

Company: Ferm-Living About: ferm LIVING is a Danish company that aims at designing and manufacturing interior products with a graphic touch. The product range consists of wallpaper, Wall Stickers, textiles, kitchen items, a large KIDS collection and much more great stuff to come… ferm LIVING originates from a graphic des...ign agency in Aarhus, Denmark, founded by Trine Andersen in 2005. The company came to life after Trine, mostly for fun, decided to visit a clairvoyant. Trine was quite astonished when the clairvoyand saw a little bird sitting confused on a branch, not knowing which way to fly. This sight was essential for Trine’s decision to follow her dream of starting her own business. When she then founded ferm, the little bird found knew exactly where to go and now sits on top of the company logo. The company went from being a graphic design agency to a company designs and selling lifestyle products when Trine was re-decoration her house. She was looking for graphic wallpaper, but just couldn’t find the right pattern – and when she found it, it was way too expensive. Trine decided, that other people probably felt the same way, so she decided to take it upon herself to create graphic wallpaper patterns at an affordable price. By February 2006, the very first wallpaper collection hit the streets, and since then things have been going fast! ferm LIVING now operates in many markets around the world and has agents/distributors in Australia, USA, Finland, The Netherlands, UK, Spain, France, Italy, Sweden and Japan. I personally love their bold and graphic designs! They would add such a great pop of color to your kitchen. Another thing that is cool is that their packaging is made from 100% recycled paper! *Do you buy, or not buy something based on it's packaging?

Artist: Stephan Becker Location: Portland, Oregon About: Award-winning furniture designer, Stephen Becker, is now creating beautiful, environmentally responsible lighting with the launch of greenlights. We currently offer five distinctive “candle sculptures” (they’re too cool to be called candleholders), many of which fit both votives and tapers. A pioneer in sustainable furniture design and owner of IF Green (www.ifgreen.com), Becker’s beautiful Slingback chair was awarded “best new chair of the year” by Sunset Magazine. His cabinet and furniture designs have been featured in a wide array of publications including Natural Home and Atomic Ranch magazines and National Geographic’s True Green Home. Now, Stephen turns his sights to lights with five green candleholder designs handmade in Oregon. Each features sustainably harvested or reclaimed woods, natural glues and finishes and recycled materials. Once again, Becker has proved his motto true: “Sustainable can be stylish.” His work is beautiful! We have a couple of these candle sculptures in store, and they get tons of comments from people who come in the store, good ones of course! What's even cooler is that he does furniture too!

Artist: Katie Bramlage Another Katie Bramlage Post! These are wall hangings made of wood, cork and cardboard. The texture is amazing. These would look great anywhere! Katie is a local designer, who has also interned at Relish. One of the great things about Relish is the fact that 30% of the merchandise in the store is from local artists and designers! Fostering local talent is so important because it supports the local artists and not to mention the economy. How important is it for your to buy local?

Product of the Day!/Discussion

Okay, I realize I featured Marimekko two "Products of the Day" ago, but I was in a meeting with Trisha yesterday with Mambo Media and we were talking about marketing and of course what Relish offers as a store and company, and Trisha pointed out that Relish is one of the only places in Oregon that offers true Marimek...ko fabric. Hearing that just made me think, how come I didn't know that?! And how come I didn't think to ask? I have seen Marimekko products in other places as well, and I didn't ask myself, "is this truly Marimekko?" How often do you ask yourself, "where did this come from?"

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Company: Blomus Location: Germany Materials: Stainless Steel, Canvas Description: Blomus aims to harmonise form and function to create special products for everyday life. For Blomus design is not an end in itself but an important part of everyday life. Showing a Blomus product once again! We just got these in the store last week. These stylish bread baskets have a canvas cover that comes off so you can wash it easily. Having these at home would be like eating in a restaurant!. I personally favor the green color!

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Company: Marimekko We are featuring Marimekko fabric today! These timeless fabrics and bedding would be perfect for back to school! Yes, it's coming around once again... We have lots of bedding, cups, plates and pillow cases that would make your new college student's dorm room a hit. They are also great for any age! I recall one customer that came into the store recently and said she had the pink flowered fabric in her room as a child! This stuff never gets old!

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Company: Roost About: Roost is a wholesale line of modern home furnishings and accessories that emphasizes accessible and livable design. We utilize authentic materials and finishes that are contemporary without being hard-edged. The majority of roost products are designed by our small group of design associates and the... finished pieces are truly handmade, small craft production. Our products are manufactured for us in workshops and factories where we have longstanding relationships. In this way, we can ensure the quality and integrity of each piece. Our line includes some furniture, as well as lighting, unique mouth-blown glass vessels, metal vases and candleholders, home textiles, baskets, stone, wood, wax and botanicals. We will be adding collections periodically with the goal of being a complete design and product resource for the home and gift specialty retailer. These are so great. Taking a non-sustainable item, a plastic bottle and using that design and making it out of glass! So cool! Very light weight and fun, great for the home or office.

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Company: MakeLike Location: Portland, Oregon About: Our studio generates art direction, graphic design, pattern design, and illustration for publishing, editorial, marketing, retail, exhibition, product development and identity/brand applications. I love there MakeLike's attitude not to mention their work! Reading their story on their site makes me laugh out loud. Their philosophy about making shows through in their work. The "hers" and "his" pillow cases are hilarious. Check our there work here at Relish!

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Company: Xen About: Pure and full of Spirit - A philosophy and our guiding principle. In a world tries to keep up with the continuous progress, calmness, purity and uniqueness have become seldom, if not a luxury. Xen realizes moral concepts and a philosophy beyond the zeitgeist by combining elegance and natural materials in innovative ways. So Xen leaves the ordinary dimensions of jewelry in order to create collections offering the leeways for your personality - combining esthetics and craftsmanship. I will admit, this is a really weird close-up shot of my hand... But besides that, I love this ring. With the smooth stainless steel and the off-centered balance. Beautiful!

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About: First introduced in 1997, the Ray Tray is back! The design, which features a metal frame covered with stretch netting typically used in lingerie, incorporates a simple, inventive mechanism to hold the fabric in a concave plane. The RayTray is the first of the RayBowl collection to be reintroduce...d. The open, breathable mesh makes the RayTray ideal for storing fruit and vegetables. The covers come of easily and are machine washable. In addition to functioning as storage in the kitchen or on a bugget, the RayTray makes a dramatic modern statement in any area of your home. These are amazing! We don't quite have them in the store yet, but they are available for shipping in September! They come in green, white and black. This is yet again another design I have never seen before, so innovative and fun! If only I could think of something this cool...

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From: Design House Stockholm Designer: Harri Koskinen Block Lamp: Harry was educated in Helsinki at the Institute of art and design. He has received acclaim from the Finnish industry sector, which recognized him as a talented designer with brave new ideas. ...Today, the block lamp is a design classic, renowned all over the world and recognized with several design awards. The Block Lamp was introduced in 1996 and has been part of the Museum of Modern Art in New York's collection since 2000. I am pretty sure I am way behind the times on this one, but this lamp is so cool! It was in the store when I showed up today and was informed that it's been around for a while. I have never seen a lamp so simple and innovative. It completely challenges what we know as a lamp while still having the basic function of a lamp, to light. Beautiful and a great floor highlight piece.

Company: Moufelt Artist: Jeanie Lai MOUFELT.llc is an independent design studio started in 2007 by Jeanie Lai to explore wool felt and its endless design possibilities. Modern design is combined with one of the oldest known textile to create tactile fashion and home accessories for everyday life. All products are made in Oregon using 100% pure wool felt, a sustainable and renewable resource. Traditional hand felting techniques as well as industrial felts are used to create our products. Jeanie Lai is a Portland Oregon-based designer. With a background in architecture, Jeanie combines craft with her modern graphic style to create designs that feature the intrinsic qualities of her favorite material, wool felt. This is the best green rug! Beautiful and feels nice too. Staring at it longingly...