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.