cog & pearl: handmade has a “go to” brooklyn shop
photos from cog and pearl
i have a few “go to” shops when i don’t necessarily know what i want to get but i know that i will find something at these stores. i will post about these periodically but want to start with one close to home and where i have bought so many things for so many kinds of people it is hard to keep count. cog and pearl is one of the best edited, most interesting, easily affordable and excellent store i can think of along that highly trafficked and well worn strip of park slope’s 5th avenue row. run by kristin overson and seth walter, this tiny shop always has a cute rack of clothes/purses/wallets, some super sweet necklaces and other jewelry, and a wide range of ceramic and other artistic handmade goods. while they enabled my john derian decoupage addiction, they also showcase more unusual, lesser known artists. though cog and pearl now has a good website, hanging out in their space is the best way to get a sense of their unique point of view. cog and pearl, 190 fifth avenue at sackett street, brooklyn, new york, .
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with two small and darling kids and one lovely husband who all occasionally need some amount of tending to as well as a full-time job, this blog is an excuse for me to explore the streets of new york, with a focus on brooklyn -- my home -- and manhattan, for those great little finds that seem to appear randomly on all sorts of blocks around new york but are sometimes hidden from plain view. i gravitate toward small, beautiful, independent places with interesting things, fantastic and friendly service and mostly affordable stuff (or at least an excellent value) and food that is extremely tasty, reasonable and in a great space -- though taste will trump design every time. to help put all these ideas in one place, i also will provide a series of new york mini-guides. in each of these, i will highlight something fun to do and then give some food, shop and doing suggestions nearby. these mini-guides, soon to be accompanied by mini-maps, will help to fill an afternoon -- where to pick up a snack, what shops to check out nearby and is there a really sweet little park along the way for a much needed rest. and i am always looking for ideas -- so if you have any suggestions for where to eat and shop or what to do please let me know. . you can also follow me on twitter at cherrypatter.
and for those of you more interested in the photos, i have absolutely no photography training and while i have been picking up a few tidbits here and there, mostly i think the credit for the photos goes to my lovely camera. it is a canon rebel xti, and the lens i use most of the time is the 50 mm 1:1:8. i also have a 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 for longer views.
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i totally agree with LL on this one, even though i have only been once or twice! i have yet to find something comparable here in london… and it turned me into another Derian fan, very hard to get here!!! must keep looking
[...] as i have been on the hunt for great little independent shops all over new york, i was surprised to keep hearing that there is this one must see place on the upper east side. and, well, i used to live up there (way to the east but still technically the upper east side) andi cannot remember once finding a home/design/clothing shop that had the kind of interesting, artsy and intriguing mix that i have come to find in brooklyn with some regularity (think cog and pearl). [...]