Saturday, November 26, 2011

Boys Fort Is Open!

An exciting new shop just opened downtown, in the West End District, at the Galleria.  It's carefully a curated boutique by talented designers from the Kenton Collective, a new design firm in town. With a name like Boys Fort, you might feel like this is a men's store but it's oh so much more than that. This store is so much fun, I spent a loonnng time looking at all of the fabulous creations.  The owner's joked that it's been coined as a "Manthropologie". I think it's much cooler and more original than that, but I can see the reference. The model is based on a classic artists collective, with modern ideas. It's awesome that the community has an outlet to so easily support local, innovative projects like this. It's one of the reasons I love living in Portland so much! Boys Fort carry's all sorts of cool locally designed products, including cuff links by me, Brehan Todd, check it out!!!

Good music and good friends at Boys Fort
Reclaimed Wood Furniture Designed Locally

The Perfect Mapron
Local bow ties by Harding and Wilson are so cute
Lot's of cool jewelry, all made here in Portland



Handmade paper gifts 

Cool stash boxes
I love the print on this set
















Jake France of the Kenton Collective and Boys Fort talks about the collective

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