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Design Hive – A New Indie Marketplace
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Coming soon to a venue near you: Boston’s latest and greatest marketplace for locally grown, independent designers. Well, not exactly Boston, Cambridge really, but it’s close.
The Design Hive is the brainchild of Val Fox, founder of Red Valise, a web site design, improvement, and marketing company. The goal of this new weekly event is to establish a showcase for Boston area’s emerging designers, exhibiting their goods all together under one roof in a friendly, community-driven environment. The Design Hive will be a rotating collective retail experience featuring different designers every week, many exhibitors offering samples and one-of-a-kind, handmade items including clothing (modern and vintage), handbags and accessories, jewelry, housewares, ceramics, prints, and paper goods. Shopping local is a great antidote to mass-produced, mass-consumed goods, it keeps independent artists and businesses alive, and minimizes everyone’s carbon footprints.
There are currently more than 80 designers registered for The Design Hive including area favorites Phetnikone Nokham, Stonehouse Studio, and JHill Design. Also scheduled for an appearance on the first three market dates, DJ Hyssop from Dead Language Studio will be spinning a collage of world music and tracks from his new album, Modern Medicine.
The Design Hive is within easy walking distance of both Harvard and Porter Squares in Cambridge and can be found every Saturday from 10am - 5pm starting Nov 1st at the Maria Baldwin School (formerly the Agassiz School), 28 Sacramento St. (off Mass Ave. @ corner of Oxford St.) Cambridge, MA 02138.
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