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| July 19, 2011 For Immediate Release: PRODUCT PORCH by Specific Merchandise and Vitrine @ MCASD August 4, 2011 – January 22, 2012 Opening Event August 4th 7-10 PM at 1001 Kettner Blvd Specific Merchandise and Vitrine are excited to announce their newest project: PRODUCT PORCH, a six-month retail-experiment at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Invited by chief curator Kathryn Kanjo, Brooks Hudson Thomas and Blaire Dessent are taking over the downtown MCASD museum shop at 1001 Kettner Blvd. throughout the run of the Pacific Standard Time exhibition Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface. Please join us at MCASD’s TNT (Thursday Night Thing) on August 4 from 7-10 PM to celebrate the opening of PRODUCT PORCH. Titled “TNT: Emerge,” the evening focuses on emerging design, music, and taste. Brooks and Blaire will be joined by David John of You Have Been Here Sometime, the acclaimed art and interiors blog, for an informal discussion about the project from 6:30-7PM. |
Featured Artists & Designers Adónde Karla Aguiñiga Tanya Aguiñiga Judie Bamber Laurel Broughton Design Bitches Common Studio Sarah Crowner Stefania Di Patrillo Miles Eastman Fern Louis Gabriel Tamasyn Gambell Christopher Haun Stephen Johnson Amanda Keeley Kimmel Kids Lem Lem Tim Lewis |
Makelike Tim McAleece Jason Meadows Chuck Moffit D’Ette Nogle Notion Farm Objeti Taidgh O’Neill Papaver Vert Soledad Proaño Brendan Ravenhill Dino Sanchez Scout Regalia Susanna Rödder Smockshop Lauren Spenser King Carla Tennenbaum todosomething Von Tundra Winter Session Woolly Pocket Workstead |
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| PRODUCT PORCH is the collaboration between Brooks Hudson Thomas and Blaire Dessent, who both grew up in La Jolla and are especially proud to bring their projects home to San Diego. Thomas operates the Los Angeles and Joshua Tree-based Specific Merchandise, a creative retail project offering artist-made furniture, editions, found objects, and artwork. Paris-based Dessent owns an online boutique called Vitrine, presenting artists’ editions, housewares, and personal accessories made by artists and designers from Europe and the United States. The two attended La Jolla High School together more than 20 years ago, but only met last year when their similar interests and business models brought them together. Both have backgrounds in contemporary art, Thomas as an artist, and Dessent as an art historian. After two informal collaborations in Los Angeles and in New York City, PRODUCT PORCH is their first official business partnership. |
PRODUCT PORCH will serve as a laboratory for what a museum-shop could be. Featuring new design objects, furniture and accessories made by emerging and established artists and designers, the shop will serve as a destination for new design and creative retail in San Diego. Continually PROJECT CONTACT |
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