Good resource. Lots of images. Lots of time needed at Graphic exchange. thanks Paul.

I’m supa excited about helping good friend Michael Soriano redesign his portfolio site (it’s in progress!). He’s been a busy little bee lately. Some of his latest projects include a wine parlor, a surf project, and a pearl. Check out his point of view of where to eat in san diego.

The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma

Casa Surf Project

Flavorpaper in the bedroom.

corso bar by robert stadler via dezeen

KOKO3 is a Helsinki-based design office working locally and globally since 1997.

it’s been awhile since i’ve seen these pics. i suppose the closing is now *official* with the notice of nestboutique.net expiring. we opened the store in 2004 and closed it a year later (property was converted to condos). it was an incredible venture. met wonderful people and received amazing support from the san diego community, friends and family.

i solicited the help of theapt (thanks pia) to achieve the high-gloss aliphatic urethane. it was the look i wanted, but turned out to be a mess to maintain. it doesn’t rain often in san diego, but when it did, i felt a lawsuit in the making. very slick! we took a beat-up paul mccobb desk to a local sprayer to get the high-gloss black look. in a low-traffic retail space, it made for an intimate checkout process for our customers. bags were hidden in the laser-cut steel cubes behind the desk, with the credit card processor, phone and other office goods.

nest featured mostly yarn, books and other knitting supplies, plus a few home products / accessories by emerging artists. we built each cube out varying depths of 1/4″ MDF; glued and nail gunned with the assistance of becky’s father one saturday afternoon, in a final push to get the store open (i tend to let things drag on).

a shot of the cubes – opening party

friends dand and gunnar

the space evolved into featuring a number of artists. affrayed in collaboration with ordinarykids

egg and chicken leg by ame parsley was the last show at nest. we closed the doors in dec. 2006

nest boutique was a great experience. it was a venture i always wanted to do (yarn..?). we did it.

i have always loved the work of david weeks studio . small world, but nest once carried butter-ny . butter-ny is lindsey adams adelman. lindsey, who is married to david, turned me on to her sister amy adams of perch! talented family.

random from my all-time favorite: porro

thinking of simple, minimal pieces that would work well for our friends building their new place. they’ve done a nice job of documenting the progress. Pursuing Wabi. Wabi, a simple way of life, free of ornateness. The house is designed in collaboration with sebastian mariscal.

here’s a few early pics of the space. overall, we love it here, less the storage space, and the fact you have to walk up 2 flights of stairs to get the bathroom. but 9 months later, we’re used to it.