Inspired by Autumn, Around the Shop
Wait, wait! Now, if you’re in San Francisco, you are not only enjoying autumn, you’re also enjoying Indian Summer! Happily, we are still carrying some beautiful, perfect for lounging at Golden Gate park, or for an evening of outdoor cocktails around the city. (Just remember to bring a shawl, wrap or cardigan!)
We won a San Francisco Travel Grant!
I am thrilled to announce that we are on the list of winners for the 2011-2012 Neighborhood Partnership Grant from SF Travel. Here’s what the San Francisco Travel Association said about that. Now in its second year, the grant program was created to extend the economic impact of San Francisco’s tourism industry into the city’s diverse [...]
Gabby Young & Other Animals Get Swankety
Last week Swankety band Gabby Young & Other Animals found their way into Swankety Swank.
An Oceanographer’s Dream
She brought me the most amazing Victorian style Sheet Music Cabinet. It had a rounded door front with a turn-knob latch. It was all wood with cabriolet legs and a light-reflecting, aged mirror. She also produced a petite, fold-out desk with two small drawers above, and one below with a hutch shelf that sat on the top [...]
Are You Curious?
Do you love the unusual? Have a craving for the strange? Can you carry a tune? Kick up your heals? If you’re weird, wonderful, curious and kicky, or want to be, join us for Cabinet of Wonders tonight at Swankety Swank! Until then, a few Swankety spectacles to wet your whistle.
Gypsy Jazz performance this Friday night!
Goucho band members, Dave Ricketts on guitar and Rob Reich on accordion will bring gypsy jazz to our Cabinet of Wonders Event this Friday! Have a listen to one of Goucho‘s performances.
Beastwares by Phoenix
Get into your animal nature here! For a fantastic, ethically made (not overseas) non m.o.o.p. shedding furry fun accessory, get one of Phoenix’s adorable Beastware hoods at Swankety Swank. These are hand sewn in SF, with hand painted ears, secret stash pocket and little fur balls on the tied ends. They come in all sorts of colors: one [...]
Sexi Seaweed at the Divisadero Artwalk August 11, 2011
Sexi Seaweed Meet & Greet! As part of this month’s Divisadero Artwalk we welcome fans and shoppers of Sexi Seaweed!
The Phoenix of Fortune Dresser
“The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.” -Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Arriving in August
The House of Swankety Swank presents Cabinet of Wonders August 19, 2011 7-11pm Join us as we celebrate all things curious and creative inspired by Stacy Carlson’s newly published work, Among the Wonderful. “…in the darkness I could always feel some ethereal charge that alerted me to the silken threads that bound reality together. It [...]
