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VOLUME 1 | NUMBER 6 |
No v e m b e r 2 0 2 0 PUBLISHER
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Jeanne Exnicios Foster
HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS Where Y’Art connects local artists to their community online
S E N I O R V I C E-P R E S I D E N T, SA LES A ND M A R K ETING
Sara Barnard A DV E R T I S I N G D I R E C T O R
Sandy Stein
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GIVING THANKS Show gratitude for the season with seasonal flair
CR E AT I V E SERV ICES DI R ECTOR
Dora Sison SPECI A L SECT IONS EDI TOR
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Sarah Ravits
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE Judy at the Rink offers personalized gifts, decor, accessories and more
CON T R IBU TOR S
Zana Georges Chris Granger Kaylee Poche Shelby Simon P R E-P R E S S C O O R D I N A T O R
GET LIT Festive lamps make your home glow
Jason Whittaker GR A PHIC DESIGN ER S
Maria Boue Catherine Flotte Emma Veith Tiana Watts
PAST & PRESENT Local designers give tips for mixing vintage and modern pieces P H OTO B Y B R I T T S M I T H / P R O V I D E D B Y W H I T N E Y J O N E S
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Where Y’Art connects local artists to their community online By SARAH RAVITS | Photos provided by WHERE Y’ART
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Artists Cat Todd and Collin Ferguson founded Where
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Y’Art, an online collective, in 2013 as a way for emerging and established New Orleans artists to connect with customers and showcase their work. “We wanted to build something and get these undiscovered talents a place to be found,” says Todd. “We really wanted to create a space and a tool for locals to get to know the community and be able to use it to find local artists.” Through Where Y’Art, customers can purchase works and directly interact with artists through a messaging system. Users can also follow artists, “favorite” them, create collections and sign up for alerts when artists post new work. Todd says it has been a helpful tool for art lovers and creatives amid COVID-19 restrictions, and it now showcases and sells works by more than 150 local artists. Where Y’Art keeps just a small percent of the proceeds — essentially just enough to maintain the site; artists keep 90% of the revenue generated. “We represent a lot of artists that live and die by market life,” notes Todd. “Their world has been disrupted, and we’ve done everything we can to create opportunity for them.” Where Y’Art also has helped much of its community find work by lending their expertise to boutique hotels and hospitals in need of decor. The collective also recently teamed up with JAMNOLA to help design the 2 rooms in the city’s first experiential museum in the Marigny. Todd says now is an especially good time to “think local” and support the creative community. “The website was always designed to be a tool for discovery,” she says. “We wanted to make art accessible.” For more information: whereyart.net | Instagram: @whereyart
“Aerial Study”
BY KRISTEN ALBRECHT
“Suyeni” BY BRETT HENDERSON
“Stained Window”
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“I Can’t Breathe” BY RASHAUD BROWN
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Judy at the Rink offers personalized gifts, decor, accessories and more By SHELBY SIMON
Owner Martha Claire Breland came into small business ownership thanks to a text chain with her girlfriends, where she learned local shop Judy at the Rink was looking for a buyer. One of her friends casually — perhaps jokingly — suggested Breland should go for it, and she jumped at the idea. With the full support of her husband, Quin, and the mentorship of previous owners Kay and Roy Fausset, they made the transition in 2019. “Kay poured her heart into Judy, and I have always wanted to honor her hard work and vision,” Breland says. “I still seek her guidance regularly. She can always put a smile on my face or make me laugh.” Judy at the Rink offers a bright, upbeat shopping experience with its mix of local, one-of-a-kind items and commercial products. The store sells personalized gifts and holiday items, along with home decor, bath and beauty products, frames, pottery and sleepwear. When she bought the shop, Breland’s vision was to focus on purchasing products from women-owned small businesses. The store has been around since the early ’80s, but not always at The Rink. Original owner and art collector, Judy Applebaum, sold the shop to Maria Viguerie and Sharon Healy, who passed it on to the Faussets in 1995. The shop was originally on Magazine Street, but a fire in the building forced the Faussets to relocate it to The Rink, a small shopping center where it has remained since. The first year of owning a business is often difficult in normal circumstances, and the COVID-19 pandemic has added its own set of challenges to the mix, but Breland says talking to other business owners in the community has helped her navigate these unprecedented times. “I have found so much comfort in talking to other retailers right now,” Breland says. “Stephanie Deshautreaux bought Mignon a few months after I bought Judy, so we’ve both been a resource for each other. Other women owned/ run businesses that I have really felt connected to are Jessy [Jacobs] at Babe New Orleans, Jill [Sanchez] and everyone at Em’s Boutique and Shane [Guidry] at Pippen Lane.”
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LEFT: Judy at the Rink is known for festive decorations, home accessories and other local gifts.
BELOW: Owner Martha Claire Breland bought the shop in 2019.
Owner Martha Claire Breland hopes customers see the shop as a place to connect with their community. The shop sells a variety of bath and beauty products.
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Judy at the Rink also sells a variety of jewelry and accessories.
Seasonal items for celebrating Thanksgiving are among the current offerings at the shop.
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Breland got creative and bolstered the shop’s website and social media presence amid the COVID-19 shutdowns earlier this year. She says she loves connecting with her customers through Instagram and she recently started a blog, “Judy Needs a Drink,” to share updates happening in her personal life and at the store. Judy at the Rink has provided free local delivery since before the pandemic, though The Rink is back open and welcoming customers with a mask mandate and other safety measures in place. Local artists are a huge part of the business, and Breland says she has enjoyed getting to know the artists her predecessor supported, as well as reaching out to new vendors. Most of the shop’s eye-catching local art is displayed in the glass windows at the front, and Breland says she enjoys calling artists on the phone to celebrate the sale of their art and a shared success. “I am incredibly moved by every sale, message, like, call and order,” she says. “[Customers] are keeping a dream of mine going, and it does not go unnoticed.” Breland says she hopes customers see the shop as a place to connect with their community. “You can come in and see a familiar face, pick up where your last conversation left off, ask questions, tell a story, hear a story and just exist,” Breland says. “I think now more than ever we are looking for places to escape and enjoy. I want Judy to be a place where you can do just that.” For more information: 2727 Prytania St., 504-891-7018; judyattherink.com | Instagram: @judyattherink
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Marquis table lamp | $375 from Eclectic Home. PHOTO PROVIDED BY ECLECTIC HOME
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Available in brushed nickel or gold, $299 for set of three from Textures (421 Ninth St., 601-990-2082; textureswarehouse.com). PHOTO PROVIDED BY TEXTURES
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Nantucket Lamp by Simon Pearce |
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Local designers give tips for mixing vintage and modern pieces
By KAYLEE POCHE
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The pandemic has led to many of us spending a lot more time at home
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than usual, and in turn, some locals are using this time to revamp their living spaces in all kinds of ways. In fact, interior designer Whitney Jones of Whitney J Decor (847 Third St., Gretna, 504-300-9698; whitneyjdecor.com) says she’s the busiest now that she’s been in her nearly decade-long career. Before we even begin planning a space, we sometimes ask ourselves what era we’re trying to channel. Do we want to collect the perfect vintage furnishings or do we want to fill the room with sleek modern pieces? But the real question is: Why not do a little of both? Interior designer Chad Graci of Graci Interiors (902 Jefferson Ave., Suite 3, 504-452-0051; graciinteriors.com) and Jones offer tips on how to mix vintage and modern furnishings without them clashing.
START WITH A
vintage
STATEMENT PIECE.
If you see a piece you absolutely love while scouring a yard sale or local vintage shop, scoop it up while you can. You can worry about matching later. Big pieces like tables and dressers are often some of the priciest, so purchasing them second-hand can be cost efficient. From there, you can build the room out and start mixing and matching modern pieces around your eye-drawing vintage piece. “When you can find a big statement piece, it really makes the budget go much farther than trying to bring in small pieces that work with what you have,” Jones says, adding that vintage burlwood furniture is especially trendy right now. And when looking for walnut or oak, Graci says he prefers antique pieces for their color or finish. According to Graci, a “knockout antique rug” can be a strong place to start a main room, like a formal living room or dining room. “The antique
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rug can inspire anything from the color palette, to the style of furnishing to even the placement of furnishings in the room, depending on the pattern of the rug,” he says.
Multi-functional
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Interior designer Whitney Jones recommends scouring yard sales and local vintage shops for statement pieces.
When hunting for vintage finds, Jones says some older pieces can work in several ways in several rooms, depending on your need — making them a great investment. “One of the things that I’m noticing in trying to mix vintage with newer items is people are using their vintage pieces as multi-purpose pieces,” she says. Take a dresser Jones has in her home that’s about 25 years old. Not only has she painted it just about every color in the book, from purple to gold to blue — and she’s painting it again soon — but she’s also used it as a bar cart, a media console and office storage at different points. These evolving pieces can change with the times, and it’s comforting to know that even when you want to freshen up a room later or do a bit of rearranging, old faithful will be there for you. PAGE 22
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BUT LOOK FOR COMMON THREADS. Both Jones and Graci are seeing locals embrace color, patterns and cozier maximalist spaces recently. “Especially being at home, they’re kind of wanting to be surrounded by stuff and more stuff,” Jones says. “This is making them feel a little bit more comfortable.” “I think — I hope — that people are steering away from this strange gray trend that has permeated the last five to six years,” Graci says. “I think people are excited about pattern wallpapers and bold colors. I love the return to strong jewel tones. I think those are colors that people want to live with now.” But pulling off this look takes an eye for design. Once you have your first piece of furniture, you want to make sure that each additional piece has at last one aspect in common with another. It could be color, scale, style, material or another similar detail, but finding these common threads, Graci says, is essential to making sure pieces complement each other and tie the room together. “It’s not just you putting a bunch of things in a room,” he says. “They all have to have some sort of language and work together and be there for a reason. … If something doesn’t feel right, then it’s probably not right.”
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Find common threads, including colors, that tie rooms together.
Designers Whitney Jones and Chad Graci are noticing clients are embracing bright colors. PHOTO BY BRITT SMITH PHOTOGR APHY / PROVIDED BY WHITNEY JONES
Designer Chad Graci says a “knockout antique rug” can be a strong place to start a main room, like a living room or dining room.
An antique or vintage fixture against a minimalist backdrop is eye-catching without being over-the-top.
Upholstered chairs and an antique table complement a dining area with classic cabinetry and sconces. The airy lighting adds a contemporary, fresh feel.
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sleek and simple
USE MODERN PIECES TO SUPPORT THE DETAILED VINTAGE FINDS. Graci says locals are turning to French pieces from the 1930s to the 1950s, which he says aren’t “overly ornamented” like their predecessors and therefore work well with modern interiors. For modern trends, he says people are opting for acrylic, lucite and glass pieces to support the early 1900s pieces. For instance, you may see a set of vintage upholstered chairs paired with a clear table. Then, for light fixtures, Jones recommends going modern, saying the latest options on the market are “just out-of-this-world amazing,” from beaded chandeliers to fixtures that remind her of the costume jewelry she used to wear.
local love
WHEN LOOKING AND BE SURE TO SHOW SOME FOR VINTAGE GOODS. Jones prefers to visit local garage sales to score good prices on vintage items, while Graci’s go-tos are estate sales and local vintage shops, like Dop Antiques on Jefferson Highway and both Merchant House and Malachite on Magazine Street, which he recommends for “timeless pieces of all eras.” He especially loves Renaissance Interiors in Metairie, adding “it’s almost a 100% chance that I’ll find something I’m looking for there.”
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