August 21 – September 5
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
All Joseph Joseph kitchen accessories are 30% off
Ink Dish tableware is 40% off
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.
• Posted by Click Design on August 21, 2010.
• Filed under: handmade, in store, sale
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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.
• Posted by Click Design on August 4, 2010.
• Filed under: click, eco-friendly, handmade, in store, reduce reuse recycle
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salt and pepper shakers
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.
small cozy mugs, $21
• Posted by Click Design on May 26, 2010.
• Filed under: click, eco-friendly, handmade, in store
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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.
panoramic party shot
• Posted by Click Design on May 5, 2010.
• Filed under: art, click, handmade, in store
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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.
• Posted by John on April 13, 2010.
• Filed under: art, click, handmade, in store
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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!)
• Posted by Frances on .
• Filed under: click, eco-friendly, handmade, in store, reduce reuse recycle, sale
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Day one at the New York International Gift Fair had us covering the aisles in Handmade and At Home. What were we excited about? Well for one thing, the most adorable salt and pepper shakers in the world, and their friends, cozy-wearing mugs:
Handmade in Montreal by PMO Designs, these are absolutely adorable, and surprisingly affordable. The cable-knit cozies are made by the artist’s mother. Love it!
The next most exciting news? We’re having a Poppi party. The exact date hasn’t been set, but it sounds like the amazing Dawn Benedetto, creator of the fabulous Poppi rings, will be bringing a full selection of her jewelry for a show at Click! in early May, just in time for mother’s day. I’m just saying. Here Dawn and John are discussing possible dates:
• Posted by John on January 30, 2010.
• Filed under: click, handmade, in store
• Tags: ceramics, handmade, jewelry, rings, salt and pepper
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This will be a short entry. We’ve carried Envirosax bags at Click! since 2007. They are great little gifts, for this post, let’s call them stocking stuffers shall we? For $9.50 you can pat yourself on the back for giving a beautiful, practical and environmentaly smart gift. The reason I am writing about them at this moment? cool new designs. Just a few of them are pictured below. There are lots more! See you soon.
La Boheme
Sweet Cat
Green Planet
• Posted by Frances on December 15, 2009.
• Filed under: click, handmade, holidays, in store, reduce reuse recycle
• Tags: envirosax bags, grocery bags, stocking stuffers, under $10
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Click! and Dinah Coops have been trying to get together for quite a while and it’s finally happened. We knew we loved her aesthetic but didn’t know how perfect the match was until the work was in our grabby little hands.
table mat $35, two napkins $32.
In her own words, “I work toward efficiency in materials, labor and energy; use less toxic materials and those made in the Northwest whenever possible; and create things that last and are made from recycled or quickly renewable materials.”
hemp/cotton dish towels $19.
It wouldn’t be a bad idea to come in and see them for yourself or for someone on your list. It is rare to find function so seamlessly entwined in art that you have to consider whether to dry your hands with it or frame it. Thanks Dinah!
• Posted by Frances on December 13, 2009.
• Filed under: art, click, eco-friendly, handmade, holidays, in store, reduce reuse recycle
• Tags: coasters, Dinah Coops, dish towels, hemp/cotton, linen, paper stone, table mats
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Cookies and Cake oh my! There are so many beautiful treats around this time of year and I just found a way to make them look even more tempting…cookie and cake plates by Stylegarden. Made in Tacoma of carefully procured vintage dishware, they are certainly useful around the Holidays and will probably resurface frequently during the rest of the year. If you ask nicely, we may give you a chocolate when you buy one…even if the plate is a gift for your friend.
two tier cookie plate $36, single cake plate $24
• Posted by Frances on December 9, 2009.
• Filed under: art, click, eco-friendly, handmade, holidays, in store, reduce reuse recycle
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I popped by at the tail end of the Urban Craft Uprising show at the Seattle Center this weekend and took this shot of the lovely Rachel Austin in a rather sparse looking booth.
She had a fantastic show which is no surprise. The really cool thing is that she also brought along new work for Click! We’ll have it all hung for the West Seattle Artwalk this Thursday the 10th (6 to 9pm). With the variety of prices and sizes of her work, gifting Rachel’s artwork is a great holiday idea .
It’s true that when you buy someone a nice plastic gift card, they know you probably risked life, limb and paid for parking…but art – the thing that people make – is awesome!!!
• Posted by Frances on December 7, 2009.
• Filed under: art, click, handmade, holidays, in store
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The holidays are upon us, and it’s time to sass up your home for the impending family gatherings and sugar-fueled gift opening extravaganzas that await. We’re here to help.
Let’s start at the table. There is no easier way to dress up the dinner table than by adding a table runner, and at $21, there may not be a less expensive way either. Top it off with brushed nickel tea light holders by Kenneth Wingard, and you’ll be feeling festive in no time.
If you want to receive good stocking stuffers, you’d better have a good stocking. Read Frances’s post from last week on these sweet, modern stockings from Simplemente Blanco. Handmade in Boston by Argentina-born Fernanda Bourlot, these have a simple beauty. And for hanging by the fire with care, try using our purse hangers as stocking hangers. We have new designs for the season that would work perfectly to hang from the mantle.
Sometimes stockings are small, and hang from the tree. Sometimes they have sweet little mittens to hang with them. I’m just saying.
Speaking of ornaments, we had a great idea from a customer recently who bought several of these wooden ornaments, with the idea of using them as gift tags. You could even do that with our ever-popular wood snowflake ornaments, if we haven’t sold out of them yet.
You’ll undoubtedly be wrapping some gifts, and will appreciate the top quality wrapping paper we’re carrying, by Denise Lynn Studios. Don’t be surprised when the recipient ignores the gift and frames the paper. No really, we know a lamp maker who has made gorgeous shades from this line of paper… but more on that in the new year.
• Posted by John on November 27, 2009.
• Filed under: click, handmade, holidays, in store, on web
• Tags: candles, felt, gifts, holiday, ornaments
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It’s getting cold out there.
Have you ever come in from the outdoor bluster and just not been able to shake off the chill? I have three words for you…Hot Water Bottle, or Hottie as we call them in our house. When I was a kid my Nana cured everything with a Hottie and a cup of tea. (Never mind that we lived in Southern California and not in “merry old England”.) Anyway, we have Hotties in at Click! and they are sooo cozy.
Made in Boston by the folks at Simplemente Blanco, Hotties are snuggled in a handmade soft wool cover, white or or dark heathered grey. $46
• Posted by Frances on November 18, 2009.
• Filed under: click, eco-friendly, handmade, holidays, in store, snow days
• Tags: gifts, Hottie, winter
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You know, it’s kinda weird buying Holiday decorations in August. But it’s exactly what John and I are tasked to do every summer in the sweltering heat/ice cold air conditioning, of the NY gift show. Well, things are arriving. It’s actually pretty exciting unpacking all the boxes. It’s a bit like Christmas, and as it turns out, I think we did a pretty good job.
These stockings are irresistible and it doesn’t hurt that that their designer Fernanda Bourlot is one of the sweetest people we’ve met at the shows. Originally from Argentina, she now lives and has her studio in Boston where all of Simplemente Blanco designs are made. Everything she does has such a pure, optimistic, beauty.
Certainly a refreshing take on the holiday stocking. $37 each
• Posted by Frances on November 10, 2009.
• Filed under: art, click, handmade, holidays, in store
• Tags: coolest holiday stockings, gifts, simplemente blanco
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Several months ago, Frances went to one of our local indie craft fairs to look for artists who might be a good fit for the store. She hit the jackpot with Rachel Austin, a full time artist living just a three hour drive south of us in Portland, Oregon. Rachel brought us a nice collection of her paintings for our 5 year anniversary last month, and we’ve sold most of them. She was nice enough to box up a few more pieces that just arrived:
Ralph 5x5 $70
Brenton 8x8 $90
Rachel’s paintings begin with a wood block frame (that she builds herself) and a map. She then layers her paints on top of the map; usually sweet depictions of birds and paper airplanes. Her paintings have a beauty and a simplicity that has been resonating with us and almost everyone who walks in the door.
Saturday, November 21 from 6 to 9 PM, she will be joining us for an artist reception and promises to bring more new work, including some larger pieces and some based on Northwest maps. Mark your calendar! Art makes a great gift, and her work is very accessibly priced.
• Posted by John on .
• Filed under: art, click, handmade, holidays, in store
• Tags: art, birds, maps, paintings, paper airplanes, party
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Just got a box full of Poppi rings in from the Poppi “factory” in Alexandria. We love Poppi, especially on a gloomy day. Thanks Dawn and all you Poppi makers!!!
Purple Haze $68
• Posted by Frances on October 29, 2009.
• Filed under: art, click, handmade, in store
• Tags: glass beads, rings
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All Joseph Joseph kitchen accessories are 30% off
