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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Fashion / News 28th & Burnside Goes Nationale, Gets Rad

Posted by Marjorie Skinner on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:21 PM

There's a new store and gallery opening up in former Do or Dye salon space at 2730 E Burnside called Nationale. Billed as a gallery/shop on the blog site linked above, I have a call in to the owner, May, who you might recognize as the model for Una, for the details, but this is taken from her blog:

it's called nationale after the métro station by my apartment when i first moved to paris. the font up there is parisine and i don't own it but it's what the RATP uses on the entire métro system in the paris region. the location is right across everyone's favorite theater, the laurelhurst, reconciling north and south and providing everyone with no excuse to not visit. it's going to be a collection of things i like from art to men's ties, used/new records to fine china, french candies to french toothpastes, cool magazines to wool blankets, tradional diaper rash creams to traditional marseille soaps. and yes, flint jameson & jona bechtolt's beloved deodorant by rogé cavaillès as well. there won't be any "traditional" art show for a while, but it will be worth waiting for since my very favorite art maker ryan boyle will have the first solo show in february. in the meantime, an impressive roster of portland talents will have work in the shop that you'll be able to take home that same day: niles armstrong, carson ellis, dana dart mclean, tim root, and ryan jacob smith!

I am very much looking forward to seeing how this shapes up, and in other exciting 28th & E Burnside news, Honey Owens' (also of Valet) Rad Summer vintage store is moving in next door to the former Lady Luck space from its former home on SE Division, opening this weekend. Peep the video for a feel of the store if you've never been in, cuz things are about to get groovier as well as Francophiliac up in the 'hood:

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Someone buy that girl a new keyboard. Preferably one with a working shift key.
Posted by Graham on December 10, 2008 at 2:46 PM · Report
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Hey, at least she knows how to make her accents, so the alt/option key is working...
Posted by tk. on December 10, 2008 at 5:34 PM · Report
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actually, the accents come from instantly switching to a french canadian keyboard, which still uses the qwerty format (vs. the french azerty one) while adding all the goodies éèàçî. it's pretty easy, you just have to remember by heart which letter they replace. a bit like speaking two keyboard languages or something.
funny how mercury commentators are often inclined to buy me things. last time it was "someone buy that girl a sandwich". well by all means, bring them on.
Posted by m.j.b. on December 10, 2008 at 7:55 PM · Report
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Every time that I walk by the RS building it's a cig party in there. So yeah, they are cool with me, welcome to the hood!
Posted by Cory G on December 10, 2008 at 8:55 PM · Report
5
Wait, Lady Luck is gone?
Posted by Sara on December 11, 2008 at 9:36 AM · Report
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Keyboard Sandwich, there's a good band name if you have twin Casio players.
Posted by tk. on December 11, 2008 at 7:27 PM · Report
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Let me get this straight. UNA asks for "donations" of BLANKETS for the Community Warehouse, for the needy. MEANWHILE- Cohorts NATIONALE advertises that it sells WOOL BLANKETS.
Seems REALLY SKETCHY!
Robin Hood would be pissed.
Posted by Northside Squid on December 27, 2008 at 9:08 AM · Report

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