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Designing with Fire
by Margaret Foley 		E-mail

Image Most children build forts and hideouts in their backyards, but when blacksmith Alan Flashing was 13, he built a forge. ”I wanted to make my own knife blades,” he says. “So I built a forge in our garage and backyard.”

 

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Scan This: The Art of the Barcode
by Margaret Foley 		E-mail
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While Dane Wilson’s painting called Andy’s Island looks like trees reflected in water, it’s more complicated than that. The trees and their reflection are the barcodes of books about Andy Warhol.

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The Bookish Beauty of Type
by Margaret Foley 		E-mail

Image While most people just see letters as a way to form words, book artist Malini Gupta sees them as art.

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A Quilter's Palette
by Margaret Foley 		E-mail

Image Hilde Morin’s quilts aren’t based on traditional patterns with repetition and symmetry. “My work is very improvised,” she says. “I have a general idea of what I want, but it changes quite a bit while I’m working.”

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Wood and Color
by Margaret Foley 		E-mail

Image Marjin Wall took up woodworking because she needed furniture for the house she moved into to attend Reed College in Portland in the 1970s. “I didn’t own any furniture, so I signed up for a wood projects class at Portland Community College so that I could make a desk for myself,” she says.

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Shop Hood River


Tell the office you’re taking care of some long-put-off dental work, then drive the “This is What Norway Must Look Like!” expressway (a.k.a. I-84) and spend three or four hours shopping in Hood River, Ore. You’ll have an all-day smile when you return to your desk—promise!

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Shop Lower Burnside

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Seedy motels and a nonexistent street scene used to define this inner east gateway to downtown Portland, but the transformation of a former Travel Lodge into the hipster Jupiter Hotel (the site of the successful art fair The Affair The Jupiter in Sept.) has helped turn this district into a worthy shopping outpost.

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Portland Green

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We’ve scoured Portland to find the latest shops that’ve gone green! Everything you need­—or desire—can be found with sustainability in mind. The eco-conscious have hung out their shingles all over town in converted warehouses, turn-of-the-century homes, and even old Maytag repair shops. From the reclaimed to the local, from the handmade to the sustainable, here are some of our new favorite places!
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