fall is here

It may seem that all has been quiet here at jan & äya. Lots of new things are arriving for fall including the amazing Tay Teas by tea connoisseur Nini Ordoubali and wood earring by montreal designer Orno (see photos above).

I've also been working away planning an exciting october and november! To give you a sneak peak, here are some the events to come:
1. First of all for all of you who have been asking and craving, our "sweet weekends" with Sarah Magid's confections will return this coming weekend!
2. open call days: starting saturday oct.4th we will hold our first open call from 1-3pm. Interested artists and designers should contact us by email or phone to make an appointment. Open calls will be held every first tuesdays (6-8pm) and saturday (6-8pm) of the month. Currently we are looking for work that would coinside with our "alpine" fall theme, but are open to see all works for future shows. Our wonderful new intern, Sarah, will contact you to schedule an appointment.
3. danna ray: The beautiful work of south carolina artist, Danna Ray will be on exihibit from October 17th to Nov. 30th. Her delicate and modern forest mountain scenes will grace the walls of our store. Come join us on Friday Oct. 17th from 6-8pm for an opening reception to kick off our fall season.
4. greenpoint design conference: Ok, I'm super excited about this one. Please save the date on your calender for our very first "greenpoint design conference" on Saturday, October 25th. Five super talented local designers will share their work and their thoughts for what I believe will be a truly inspiring evening. $15 a person, wine and cheese on us!
More to come!

solidarity and love

This saturday was a wonderful mix of community awareness and art as we hosted two events. Kai Krienke will be holding his very popular "community and the world" discussion groups every other saturday in our garden from 11-1pm. $10 a person including delicious pastries, coffee and juice. I can't imagine a better way to have brunch. For more information please click here. Kathleen Scully, a very talented local designer held "detaching, with love" all saturday in the shop and it was a great success. Inspired by the process of letting go a collection of her works and sketches were curated. Hurry on by since her show is up only a week and not much is left!

a lovely sunday

My beautiful daughter generously and patiently spent her sunday with me at the store while I labored over my accounting and other administrative tasks. Here she is after an inspired moment of arranging our Holztiger animal collection as well as a few other pictures of the day.

bake sale for Obama

Our bake sale on June 21st was a big success and thank you Kristin for pulling it all together! And to our wonderful enterprising little ones who came up with the most creative ways to add to our donation. From lemonade for Obama, hola hoop, magic tricks and dancing... this was definitely an innovative afternoon!

local lux

jan & äya will be graced with exquiste jewelry of two amazing greenpoint designers, Mia Hebib of Oblik Atelier and Lisa Levine's new "spirit" collection. Along with the lovely pieces from local Bon Bon Oiseau our Greenpoint collection is being born. They will be housed in a new display shelf being built this week by the very talented artist and sculptor George Schmidt (see previous post). Details will come soon!

stationary show

So on a very rainy sunday morning the Krienkes all piled into the car to go to the ICFF and the stationary show at the Javitts center on Manhattan's west side. Being that we had two kids in tow and Kai's very design savvy mother-in-law, it was sure to be an experience.
To start with the stationary show we first headed over to say hello to our favorite local card company, Screech Owl Design, whom you may have seen in our store. Not only were Jacqueline's new designs beautiful, but the booth build by her husband George, was like a mini getaway of cool. Of course Jan and I are pretty crazy about the bench he designed and made from Cherrywood (I'm hoping to have one for sale at the store very soon). I just hope Jan's greasy little chicken fingers didn't ruin the finish!
Some of my favorites from the show that are on the jan & äya list for things to come!

delicious things

It was such a pleasant surprise to go to my shop a few weeks ago and see Sarah Magid and her crew working on her cookbook. Our beautiful table will be featured in her cookbook, releasing next may 2009 and includes this fabulous apple tart made by a friend of hers. I had the great pleasure of getting to take that tart home and let's just say it was one of the best of it's kind I've ever eaten. And that is saying a lot since I come from a history of swiss apple tarts! Anyway I can't wait till I can get my hands on the recipe when the book comes out. In the meantime please take a moment to browse the beautiful work of her photographer, Noah Sheldon.