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Pour Porter Shop: Introducing Oui & Erin Considine AW 12

September 17th, 2012

Hooray for collaborations! Angela of Oui was a customer shortly after we opened and now she’s one of our new Objects labels. I love that we can both say we’ve shopped each other’s online stores. Anyway, we now carry a special edition scented candle plus two styles of her awesome ceramic garlands.

She was so much fun to work with, and so dedicated to finding the right scent for our exclusive candle. Angela’s candles are typically unscented and she and I both detest conventional perfumes so she mixed the fragrance from natural oils. It has such a cheery, fresh vibe and the anise adds just the right amount of spicy depth. I even detected a touch of celery. It smells like the best herb garden ever! The glaze is special and exclusive to the Shop too, and pairs perfectly with the scent.

Angela created a special version of her Pastel Garland too and used beads with the special edition glaze. I like mixing the Pastel Garland with the Brights & Darks Garland. Such pretty accents for the living space.

The shop also has new things from Erin Considine‘s AW 12 collection. Wait until you see them in our AW 12 lookbook. Preview posted here on our Facebook page. Happy Monday!

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Pour Porter Shop: Erin Considine New Arrivals

January 2nd, 2012

Happy 2012 everyone! I hope everyone managed to fill the holiday season with good food, R&R, and friends. The Shop is kicking off the new year with new arrivals from Erin Considine. We’ll be getting a few other items in this month too, and we’re really looking forward to our upcoming spring arrivals. In the meantime, check out Erin’s latest and our sale page

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Erin Considine Special Edition Necklace

August 15th, 2011

I’m hugely excited to finally make this little announcement today. The shop now offers a very limited, special edition piece by Erin Considine created only for Pour Porter. Erin and I had been discussing doing something like this for several months and I was bowled over when she sent pictures of the completed necklace. I think my emailed response contained an offensively large number of exclamation points and caps! The necklace’s simplicity coupled with the variety of textures and subtle colours perfectly captures what I feel is the shop’s aesthetic -simple but interesting. (All pictures below by Erin Considine)

Now, no special edition piece would be complete without a backstory, and this necklace has a really wonderful personal angle to it. Erin was able to vacation near the Catskills in the early summer and went mushroom hunting in between rain storms. She uncovered a cluster of what she believes were a species of the genus Boletus, and transported them back to her studio.
Erin is fascinated by the boundless diversity of natural dying, and is always looking for ways to integrate what she discovers into her work. A batch of mushroom “liquor” was in order and after pulverizing and boiling them, she added iron sulphate and silk fiber, letting it steep overnight. The following day, the silk emerged a beautiful silvery grey, green. Dyes made from mushrooms are each wholly unique because the colour they produce is completely dependent on weather, soils, region, and age upon harvest. So now Erin had a lot of subtly tinted silk but its use wasn’t determined until Erin paid a visit to her grandfather’s garage-cum-workshop in Illinois.
In what most people would have seen as a garage stuffed with useless junk, Erin found an abundance of things she could incorporate into her creative process. While her grandfather has Alzheimer’s, he was able to share a story for each tool in the garage and what he had made with them over the years. With this newfound historical knowledge of the things she helped her grandfather sort through, Erin collected a hammer, copper washers, rivets, and other creatively promising objects to take back home.
This special edition piece is Erin’s response to the materials she’d gathered over the summer, and a wonderful reworking of old items from family storage. The necklace is constructed of vintage brass snake chain, her grandfather’s copper and steel washers, and that beautiful silvery mushroom dyed silk. I don’t know about you guys, but I love knowing the story behind an object, and this necklace certainly has one. Only three available. Thanks Erin!

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Pour Porter Shop: 30% off all Spring

July 4th, 2011

All Spring ANNTIAN, A’N'D, Correll Correll, Erin Considine, ffiXXed, Lina Rennell, Osei-Duro, Rachel Comey, and Upstate now 30% off

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Pour Porter Shop: Spring Sale

June 20th, 2011

Spring Sale now on at the shop. 20-25% off select items from Rachel Comey, Lina Rennell, A’N'D, Erin Considine, and ffiXXed. Also, a couple new arrivals from A’N'D and ffiXXed

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