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« Furniture Festival: Week 3 Lineup - Scavenger Hunt Items: October 19 »October 17, 2008What's New?
A couple quick notes that we'll be repeating in coming weeks: The Flea will be open every Sunday--except Nov. 2--through at least December 21. A final closing date for the year will be posted in early December. What else is new? This: Cool timely project alert! Elenore Simotas, an 8th grader at Grace Church School, wanted to raise money for the Obama campaign. Together with her mother, Pamela Bell (one of the four original partners of Kate Spade), and her babysitter, artist Christina Freeman, they created VOTE Totes (above). Elenore, inspired by a sticker she saw on the street, asked Christina to create a design. Mom ordered the totes and she and Elenore taught themselves to silkscreen using a screen they ordered from Pearl Paint. Following Elenore's 14th birthday party on Saturday night, she and a few of her friends will be at the Flea selling the totes for a minimum purchase price of $20 each. Everyone is encouraged to donate more if they like. This Sunday and next only! E11 Old-school vendor Mark Kaplan (aka M+M Antiques) has made a name as a top vintage-lighting dealer at Chelsea, the Garage, the Pier Shows, all over the region, and he also sells to several current Flea sellers. Mark promised a few chandeliers, a bunch of mirrors, and some other treats this Sunday for his debut--we'll be verifying his claim early in the a.m.! C14 Karen Keller's son Aaron sells with his wife Carla in the Heartisans booth every week, and Karen's been threatening to unleash her collection of designer bags and clothes, "REAL" collectibles, mid-century furniture, jewelry, and handmade ethnic items, assembled from years of collecting and running a 15,000sf thrift shop. Now she's trying to dispense with her material possessions--whittling them down to 100 items, thus her biz name, Countdown 100--and she needs your help. Assist her starting Sunday in W43. Kraftwerks Atelier are coming up from Buckingham, PA, to show off their "heirloom-quality" handmade furniture, which is elegant, curvy, and inlaid with all kinds of interesting designs using innovative methods. A nice satellite of Furniture Fest. E29
Veteran vinyl dealers Richard and James come highly recommended by Doug from EAT Records (who had amazing stuff last week). Look for rock, jazz, soul, funk and early R&B--i.e., a cratediggers' dream. W11 Jean Betancourt is a classic Flea character--she wears more jewelry and accessories than most vendors have for sale in total. A real hoot. She finally converts from customer to seller this Sunday, and we have no idea what to expect from her jewelry and tchotchke collection--except fabulousness. E35
Bunky + Barney is the brand-new perfume and oils venture of Andrea Rosen, who moonlights as a stand-up comic and actress. (She's on the first episode of the new Flight of the Conchords season, as mentioned earlier this week.) Who nose? Yours. E33 Temah DeFranco and pals will be selling a mix of new and vintage shoes and accessories, including shoes designed by well-loved Brooklynite Lisa Nading and hand-painted Swedish clogs (below). E27
Kibibi Oyo sells natural bath and beauty products when she's not acting as editor of Blacks and Computers newspaper out of Bed-Stuy. E14 Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: Comments |
Sue Harmon has been selling at fleas and shows for a minute now, and she brings something for everyone: high-end dresses, smalls, jewelry of all kinds (right). We hope she's a keeper. W33
Folks loved Belle Amitie's friendship jewelry and lockets (right) the first time Jessica did the Flea, but that was pre-"What's New?," so we're plugging her this time. W37
Barbara Johnson has a nice case full of glass, silver, and other collectible items at the Montclair Antiques Center in NJ (where Senor Flea happened to be last Saturday), and she'll be shuffling across the rivers to join us this Sunday. B6
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