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SF International Gift Show 2006: Highlights

2006_08_15_lunares.jpg Bedding from SF Design Studio Lunares

Last week we visited Moscone North to check out the SF International Gift Fair. (Vendor links after the jump)

 
 

The minute we descended into the vast maze of aisles of chazerei we began to wish we were actually just across the street at Moscone West, where the Apple Developer Conference was underway. No doubt Steve Jobs was at that very moment revealing something that would be of keen interest to AT:SF readers.

We allowed ourselves to imagine the new Apple iPad...

Our reverie was interrupted by the approach of a security guard, walkie talkie abuzz with team officiousness. We could tell by the excited glint in her eye that she had just apprehended Enemy #1: a baby stroller. We had to think fast.

There was no choice but to disappear, and no place to disappear to but deep into the underground labyrinth before us. iPad be damned! We dove in to the Gift Show, camera and baby in tow. Eluding the Moscone Security Forces at every turn, we hurriedly picked the wheat from the chaff...and then found our exhale, back out on Howard Street.

(This is a long way of saying: we were on the lam the whole time so we apologize for any photo blurriness. Though not for the stroller.)

"WHEAT" VENDORS:

San Francisco
Fumiki ( AT:SF Review)
Everyday Studios( AT:SF Review)
Lunares
Sharon Spain
Forgotten Shangai

Pacific Northwest
La Vida Verde
Bitters Co( AT:SF Review)

Midwest
Dover Metals

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Furniture and Gift Shows

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Comments (1)

Looks like the textile industries in US have looted the textile industries in India.

Doesn't History work clock like. The English ruined the textile industries in india in the early 19th century. Almost 100 years later the english ( now american, what's the difference ? the english immigrants in the US are the americans or are they english ) now have plundered the communities in india - stealing away their traditional designs and giving it their own name ( alpanabawa.com, potterbarn has many, crate and barrel, saks avenue, bergdorf goodman the list is endless), and ruthlessly practising unfair labor practices.

Woe to them! How did suddenly all the textiles in the US have color and different textures and patterns. Doesn't that ring a bell. They have copied it from somewhere and will all patent it tomorrow !

posted by abby on 2006-08-17 05:36:14

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