Rosé Roadies and FavAUrite
We used to do the whole buying trip to NYC in one relentless day: up and back on the BoltBus from Philadelphia to NYC in August and occasionally in January. At that time, we worked together at an American craft gallery, and we had a lot to accomplish. These journeys involved scanning the hundreds of makers at the tradeshows for newness and placing orders with existing artists.
We believed in the mission we were on but lamented at how the industry was changing. Artists were aging and discontinuing their work and this method for sourcing new American, handmade craft artists within a specific aesthetic was narrowing. To be honest, what I remember most is becoming increasingly defeated year after year by having to stay in one lane and the feeling of confinement that this brought.
As time went on and we grew closer in friendship, we decided to make it 2-days and spend the night in NYC. We’d excitedly plan in the weeks before, picking exhibits, new restaurants and mapping out routes to new destinations. Still strategizing how to fit it all in but with much more joy and enthusiasm. We’d explore new places each year where we knew we’d find our favorite jewelry, pottery, handbags & sweaters and we had our traditions: Sabbah House and DeVoL for inspiration, and Tacombi to refuel with chips, salsa and margheritas. These adventures sparked hypothetical conversations surrounding ‘what if’s’ and then the manifestation of ‘when we are somewhere else’ .
When we are somewhere else will we carry a variety of goldsmiths? Yes.
Will we carry works from Spain, the UK and maybe Ethiopia? Easy: yes.
Will we spend more time on inspiration trips off the beaten path seeking outliers yet undiscovered? Yes, yes, yes.
Here are two things I remember very clearly from the bus ride home on that last short buying trip: rosé wine roadies and easily deciding on the name of what ‘somewhere else’ would be: FavAUrite. What’s to come is a story about our favaurites and how we want to share them with you to make them your favaurites too. The AU in the middle? Well, it’s gold, of course, and gold is our most favaurite. We can’t wait to welcome you to experience all that we have planned for FavAUrite, launching this fall of 2025, and to dream and go on journeys with us!
