Visiting Her Amazing Portland Shop Was A Weekly Ritual Of Mine.  -Grace Bonney, Design*Sponge  Vintage and contemporary handmade objects and art gathered for my online retail shop,   Sword+Fern ,  and prop styling and production design work.

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"Visiting Her Amazing Portland Shop Was A Weekly Ritual Of Mine."

-Grace Bonney, Design*Sponge

As an earth sign, my material instincts and desire for things I can see and touch soar. I have been honing my hunter/gatherer skills since I could open my eyes. As a kid growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I was free to run wild endlessly on the beaches and forests, where I built homes out of driftwood and made necklaces out of shells. My natural born obsession with objects-from the tiny folk art clay horse, to the gold-drenched silk ball gown, to the broken piece of cast-off marble slab in a dusty alleyway- is a way of life for me. I'm a reclamation maven, a clever raven of a collector and an rabid design enthusiast. I never tire of the mystical feeling I get when discovering a genius emerging designer or hit the jackpot of a seventy-five cent sale on vintage natural fiber textiles.  

Pictured here are some of the vintage and contemporary handmade objects and art I gather for my online retail shop, Sword+Fern.