Over the past several years, we have operated seasonal shops in various locations around town selling locally created art, craft and design products. This year, we are coming together to open our best shop ever! SFGallery143 is merging with Local Patron to bring you the best Holiday Store yet.

Where: 1418 Grant Street @ Green

When: November18th 2009 – January 10th 2010

Hours: Monday – Saturday 11am-10pm; Sunday 11am-6pm

Events : …so far

November 20th:Opening Party Featuring DJ’ Danger Deluxxe, treats and drinks. 6pm-9pm 10% Sale

December 10th: Neighborhood Merchant Crawl 5pm-10pm we will be featuring treats from a local chocolatier.

December 18th: Nest Fundraiser, 10% of sales go to help this Non-Profit Organization. Nest helps woman get out of poverty by providing micro-loans to create their own small businesses and to become self-sufficient.

January 10th: Closing Party Featuring DJ from Hiest Dominique and Bryan Riate. Pastry Chef, Jennifer Riate, from acclaimed restaurant EOS will be featuring some of her favorite desserts for you to sample. 6pm-9pm 10% sale.

Come join us for our June Temporary Store Opening. See what new artists and designers we have selected to participate this Summer. Check out what Dance Companies we’re holding benefits for in our space.

10% of purchase go to support the featured company!

Come mingle with the Designers and Artists, drink Sangria and support local DIY (Do It Yourself) Artists.

Where: Located at 143 Fillmore Street (cross street Waller).

When: Store Hours are Tuesday – Friday 3pm-7pm Saturday/Sunday 11am-6pm with events following.

If unable to attend check out our new line of products by Miranda Caroligne and Daka Bag on the website.

Be Sure to stay tuned for the next 2 weeks of events. To find out more about the June Store and to click to the featured artists websites, click on the page listed on the right titled ” June Temporary Store“.

Next week June 12th Liss Fain Dance Company Benefit 6pm-9pm and June 19th Sweet Can Productions Benefit.

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Check out our Page located on the right to check out our list of events under June Temporary Store and to link over to the listed designers & company webpages.

Happy New Year!

It has been almost a month since we closed the December Store, our most successful one yet!  Since we opened a year ago we have doubled our business. Congratulations again to Gabriel Colaluca for being the top seller with his recycled jewelry.  Miranda Caroligne came in second with her cozy fleecy hoodies and other various clothing and accessories. Now that we have changed the space back to a photography studio, what will this year hold?

We now have a new president. Go Obama! But our country has been the worst economically.  My hope is that people will still be interested in supporting the li’l guy. Who knows what’s in store but we will be plugging away. We will be updating our website to hold even more merchandise from local designers and artists so keep a look-out.

Oh, and if any of you viewed our Daka Bags and are wondering where to possibly buy them, they are now available at Xapno on Haight street, a very cute boutique!

Hello everyone!  As some of you may know we have been busy running the Holiday Temporary Consignment Store and haven’t had a chance to get around town to all the amazing events that have happened.

Good news though, we recieved recognition on 7×7’s Blog GlamWatch!  Woohoo! Check out the article listed below or click on the link.

http://www.7×7sf.com/blogs/glamwatch

AND we received an article on SF Indie Fashion’s Blog as well.  Either click on the blog listing on the right for SF Indie Fashion or Click the link below!

http://sfindiefashion.com/

SFGallery143 Holiday Store

Photography courtesy of SFGallery143

If there’s one thing that always remains in fashion, it’s the weekend. As plenty head out of town on holiday adventures, others will be launching last-minute shopping missions and hunting down enviable outfits for upcoming soirees.

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SFGallery143 Holiday Store

Photography courtesy of SFGallery143

If there’s one thing that always remains in fashion, it’s the weekend. As plenty head out of town on holiday adventures, others will be launching last-minute shopping missions and hunting down enviable outfits for upcoming soirees.

For either endeavor, you can start the weekend off feeling warm and fuzzy when you take a can of food to the Maneater Threads Holiday Sample Sale and save an additional 35 percent on already discounted apparel from such designers as Nu Collective, Burning Torch, Rami Kashou and Mike & Chris.

• What: Maneater Threads Holiday Sample Sale
• Where: 101 Townsend St., Suite 302, 415-777-1488
• When: Fri. 4-7pm.

Next, we’d recommend a visit to the Lower Haight for the final weekend of the SFGallery143 Holiday Store, which brings a slew of local indie designers together under one roof. You’ll find hand-crafted jewelry from Fluidance, avant-garde offerings from folks like Bad Unkl Sista and Miranda Caroligne, scarves by Harlequin Feltworks and lots of locally-made products. On Friday and Saturday nights, 10 percent of the proceeds go to a featured artist beneficiary, while Sunday closes out the month-long event with an all-day 10 percent discount on everything in the shop.

• What: SFGallery143 Holiday Store
• Where: 143 Fillmore St. (at Waller St.)
• When: Fri. 3-9pm, Sat. 11am-9pm, Sun. 12-6pm

From there, check out sample sales taking place on both sides of the Bay. In the Mission, 2008 Gen Art alum Serial Cultura will be having a holiday event featuring the designer’s signature scarves for $20 to $60, as well as ceramics, jewelry, paintings and other unique items from local artists, including Papaver Vert.

• What: Serial Cultura Holiday Event
• Where: 724 Valencia St. (at 18th)
• When: Sat. 1-8pm

Across the Bay Bridge, edgy Oakland-based fiftyseven-thirtythree will be spreading holiday cheer with a Christmas Party and Warehouse Sale. The hipster apparel company’s graphic tees and hoodies will be 30 to 60 percent off retail during the event.

• What: fiftyseven-thirtythree Christmas Party Warehouse Sale
• Where: 5733 San Leandro St., #4, Oakland, 510-207-0088
• When: Sat. 2-8pm

A warehouse sale of another kind goes down this weekend in Union Square. A serious boon to jeans fiends, The Warehouse Sale brings rack upon rack of premium denim brands to the Hilton San Francisco at a discount. While the company prefers to stay mum about the exact brands it will offer, our previous visits have turned up pairs from Seven for All Mankind, Chip & Pepper, Ditto, J Brand, Miss Me and many others.

• What: The Warehouse Sale
• Where: The Hilton San Francisco, 333 O’Farrell St., Yosemite Room
• When: Sat-Sun. 10am-4pm

By Lorraine Sanders

Come check out our Holiday Consignment Store from December 6th – 21st! Over 25 local artists in the area.

Open from Tuesday-Fridays 3-7pm

Saturdays 11-6pm and Sunday 12-6pm.

Find unique gifts for the holidays or shop for yourself!  We have Men’s, Women’s, and Children’s Clothing to keep you and your family warm and fashionable.  Jewelry from recycled parts, recycled silver, and precious stones. Cards for the season, children’s books, and accessories.

Most exciting is the Fine Art Photography by Gregory Bartning. His latest work covers dancers and trapeze artists. 15% of each photograph goes to the person photographed. (Without them the photograph wouldn’t be possible.)

If you are unable to stop by, find some of these new items on our online store at www.SFGallery143.com!

See Below for all our dates of events for Benefits and Local Artist Meet and Greet Evenings.

All events run 6-9pm and are FREE!

10% of all items are on sale for our Meet and Greet the Local Artist/Artist Evenings. Meet the makers of the fabulous items for sale. Drink Sangria, mingle, laugh, and have fun!
-December 6th (Saturday) Opening Night
-December 13th (Saturday)
-December 21st (Sunday) Closing Night

Benefit Evenings: 10% of All Sales from the store go to benefit the featured artist.
-December 7th (Sunday) Danger Deluxxe and and Upright Basement Music- Hits of the debut album
-December 11th (Thursday) Nina Haft and Company – Raise support for their dance tour in the Middle East
-December 12th (Friday) Folawole – Support a Performance Artist and Emerging Choreographer
-December 14th (Sunday) Technique to Show – A Pre-Professional dance company by Denia Dance
-December 19th (Friday) Sweet Can Productions – One night productions of circus, live music, and dance
-December 20th (Saturday) Liss Fain Dance Company – Long time Local contemporary dance company

Check out this new collection by Josie Adele!

Keeping things green is definitely an interest here at SF Gallery 143 and this collection is a great way to help Mother Earth.  Each design comes with 1,450 lbs of verified TerraPass carbon offsets equivalent to the average American’s month of electricity use.  In addition, each piece is made from 100% recycled silver. 

Part of this collection is coming soon to our website. So stay tuned and stay green!

Thank you to all that came to support our local Clothing Designers, Jewelers, and Artists. We had a successful 3 week run which couldn’t have been done without the support of the community and friends. Congratulations to Miranda Caroligne for being our top seller! Congratulations to Kerstin Fleischer of Daka for having our hottest item to fly off the shelves. For those of you who really wanted a leather Purse from Daka, this December we will have More stock to make sure you get a chance to have one. Our projected date for the December store will be late November after Thanksgiving to early December. We will keep you posted on the finalized dates, but in the mean time…

Check out the pictures of the Summer Store!

So I admit I have been bad the last month or so about posting and keeping everyone updated on new events around the city, but it was all for the love of creating our new SUMMER consignment store with products from all local Designers, Jewelers, and Artists from San Francisco.  

We have a mix of designers from the last December opening as well as 6 or 7 new and wonderfully talented people ranging from painters, clothing designers, and jewelers.

 Some people you may have heard of, such as Miranda Caroligne and the Brown Banana; others are still getting established, such as painter/mixed media artist Bean, and one in particular that just moved to the city a month ago from Minnesota, Nikolas Allen with his line RNG8GRL.

The store will be open from June 8th – June 28th, and if Gregory is willing and able to postpone his photo studio space, we will be open for another week! So come by 143 Fillmore Street and meet the talent this city has to offer!

Designers include: Yahzi Rose, eon on u, Cookie and the Dude, Miranda Caroligne, Daka, A-Liaison, Nikolas Allen, 

Jewelers include: The Brown Banana, Fluidance, Candelas Designs, Dida Jewelry, Tribal Stones, Rachel Jordana Jewelry 

Paintings: by Bean

Photography: by Gregory Bartning  

Be sure to check out the website.  If you aren’t in the area, we will be updating more of our store-line to On-line!  All to help these wonderfully talented individuals to keep up their great work and gain more exposure!

This week we are featuring Kerstin of DAKA. I had the privilege of getting to know her at the SF Gallery 143 Opening Party in December. I decided her bags were just too cute to not have in our store.

As seen in this photo Kerstin picks some of the softest and creative pattern leathers out there, which are basically in the shape of the animal. The charge is by the square foot, ranging from $3 – $4 something per foot. These leathers are so soft I wanted it as a pillow.

Kerstin then hand draws her own creative designs, such as birds, trees, or dots; she then cuts out sections of the leather. For the current bag she is making the dots represent berries, so this retro pattern looks great for the variety of colors.

She uses grommets for the handles because the leather is soft, this protects it from being ripped.

The handles are usually made with a thick cotton fabric or leather. Even though these two bags as her most popular designs, she also does custom made bags, eye pillows, and coin purses. Kerstin is currently working on designs for wallets that could match the bags. My favorite aspect of her messenger bag is the picture window. You can slide a post card or picture in to change up the design of your choice.

Find these items in the future at SFGallery143 or visit her site at www.dakabag.com!