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From the days that are gone.

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Summer Solstice 2026
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Object

Findings :

From the days that are gone.

A collection of regionally specific objects,
books, furniture, and art gathered during
summer wanderings along the backroads
of the Pacific Northwest. Findings examines
the raw hardpan layers of humanity and
history that lies beneath the technotopian
clouds of the present.

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Universal Voyage
Kenneth Callahan

$ 55
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Kenneth Callahan: Universal Voyage is a retrospective catalog and exhibition survey of the artist’s work, produced for his 1973 show at the Henry Art Gallery, part of the “Index of Art in the Pacific Northwest” series. Edited by Michael R. Johnson with an introduction by James Harithas, it spans Callahan’s career from the 1930s through 1972, featuring color and black-and-white reproductions alongside writings, lectures, and interviews that reveal his artistic philosophy. The catalog traces Callahan’s evolution from representational subjects—ships, dock workers, and landscapes—to increasingly abstract forms inspired by the natural world, light, and the Pacific Northwest landscape. It positions him among the “Northwest Mystics,” alongside Guy Anderson, Morris Graves, and Mark Tobey, highlighting his engagement with place, experimentation, and a personal artistic voyage that mirrors both literal travel and creative exploration.

Beach Rock

$15

This highly symmetrical rock was found on a beach along the shores of Puget Sound. Over countless tides, the ebb and flow of water has slowly worn and polished its surface, smoothing rough edges and accentuating its natural symmetry. Likely a remnant of the region’s glacial past, this rock may have been carried here by the Puget Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet during the last Ice Age, its composition shaped by ancient volcanic activity and the erosion of surrounding bedrock.

Out of the Silence
By William Reid & Adelaide de Menil

$225
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Hardcover and blind-debossed, Out of the Silence by William Reid, published in 1971 by Outerbridge & Dienstfrey for the Amon Carter Museum, is a photographic essay that explores the rich artistic heritage of the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest. Featuring 117 duotone photographs by Adelaide de Menil, it captures the intricate beauty of totem poles and other monumental carvings. Reid’s accompanying text offers insightful commentary that situates these works within their cultural and spiritual contexts, illuminating their role in communal and ceremonial life. This type of collaboration was rare for the time, as most books were either academic studies or artist catalogs, but here Bill Reid and Adelaide de Menil create a kind of dance between image and word, inviting the reader into a more emotional and visual encounter with the spirit of First Nations art and culture of the Pacific Northwest.

Brass Clam Shell
Door Knocker

$125

Many things may be up for debate, but one thing is certain: everyone needs a heavy-duty cast brass clam door knocker.
size: 4" H x 4.5" W x 2" D

Victorian Dress Collar

$35

This finely crafted lace collar reflects Victorian fashion, in which intricate lacework signaled refinement and social status. Descended from 16th-century ruffs, the collar gradually evolved into the softer, more ornate, and wearable designs of the 19th century, specifically made to sit elegantly over high-necked dresses or blouses. In late 19th-century Washington, collars like this were primarily worn for social occasions or when receiving guests to signal style and social grace. Designed to be removable, they could be easily removed for careful cleaning.

Raku Style Wabi Sabi Vase

$ 45

This piece of unknown origin and method calls to mind the Japanese ceramic art form of Raku. Defined by its distinctive firing technique, Raku pottery produces unpredictable glaze effects and textures. Rooted in the philosophy of wabi-sabi, it celebrates imperfection and transience, finding beauty in the natural and often accidental outcomes of the process. In the Pacific Northwest, where life is framed by dense forests and constant gray, this aesthetic offers a counterpoint to the engineered precision of contemporary life. On a dark, rainy spring day, as one looks through a window blurred by water into shifting abstractions of form and light, it is comforting to have ceramics nearby, objects that can elevate such depressing moments into heightened, aesthetically pleasing depressing moments.

Baby Sitka Spruce Tree

$ 25

The Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) is a towering emblem of the Pacific Northwest, thriving where rain, fog, and salt air meet. Among the tallest trees on Earth, it grows fast and straight along coastal margins, its wood prized for shipbuilding, aircraft, and musical instruments. For Indigenous nations of the Northwest Coast, the Sitka spruce has long been a vital material—its roots woven into baskets, its bark used for tools and medicine—making the tree not just a resource, but a living part of cultural and ecological continuity.

A Drop in the Pond
Folded Card

$ 8

This photograph captures the delicate aftermath of a single rock striking the surface of a pond. In this brief interval, the rock has already broken the surface tension and disappeared beneath the water, leaving behind a series of expanding concentric ripples. Mechanically, the energy transferred from the rock into the water propagates outward as surface waves, with molecules oscillating vertically while the wave itself moves horizontally. The water is in a state of transient equilibrium as kinetic energy from the initial disturbance disperses, interacting with the pond’s natural viscosity and surface tension, which gradually dampens the wave amplitude. Tiny vortices and subtle reflections along the ripple crests hint at the turbulent microcurrents still swirling below. This photograph essentially captures a moment where order and chaos coexist, revealing the fluid dynamics in a quiet, almost meditative instant.

Opinel No. 09
Oyster Knife

$25

The Opinel No. 09 Oyster Knife, part of the historic French Opinel line founded in 1890, reflects the brand’s long tradition of practical, well-crafted folding knives. Created for farmers and workers, Opinel knives have evolved to include specialized tools like this oyster knife, featuring a short, strong blade and an ergonomic handle designed for safe opening of shellfish. In the Pacific Northwest, oysters have been a vital part of local culture for thousands of years—harvested by the First Nations and later cultivated commercially by European settlers in Puget Sound, where the tidal flats and clean waters create ideal growing conditions.

Sambar Cocktail Napkin Fragment

$50
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Sambar was a renowned cocktail bar in Seattle, located at 425 NW Market St in Ballard. Founded in 2003 by chef-owner Bruce Naftaly, it was an intimate, six-table space adjacent to his acclaimed French restaurant, Le Gourmand. The bar earned acclaim for its inventive cocktails, crafted with the same precision and care as haute French cuisine, with bartender Jay Kuehner and a rotating team of talented mixologists and hospitality professionals all working together, each contributing to the bar’s lively, collaborative spirit. Its chic, cosmopolitan interior featured murals and lighting by local artists, complemented by a Henri Rousseau-type garden which seemingly enveloped the entire building. In the summer, patrons could drink cocktails on the leafy outdoor patio, surrounded by flowers, fine music, and candlelight. Despite its popularity, Sambar and Le Gourmand closed in June 2012. Almost immediately, the garden and landscaping withered, and the space lost it’s magic, becoming just another modern fixture in an increasingly soulless technotopian nightmarish hellscape of vapeshops, cheap oversized apartment montrosities, and fucking breweries.

Wood Canoe Frame

$1350

This wooden canoe frame is a distilled symbol of the Pacific Northwest. Long before roads cut through forests and along shorelines, the waterways of Puget Sound served as the region’s primary infrastructure. They functioned as highways, marketplaces, and shared corridors. Canoes carried people, goods, and knowledge between communities, shaping patterns of trade and daily life well into the mid-20th century.

Reduced to its ribs, the frame reveals a regional intelligence that is practical, restrained, and deeply responsive to water, weather, and terrain. Its form reflects a culture shaped by movement through fog, tide, and rain, where materials were respected, and design emerged through use and repetition.

Hang it from your ceiling and let it hover like a memory held in space. In a contemporary moment defined by abstraction and disembodied systems, it invites a different kind of attention. Consider it a prompt for reflection, intuition, and the unconscious. If you start dreaming differently, a Jungian analysis might not be a bad place to begin.

Exploding Heart.
Object Shirt

$ 55

The Exploding Heart T-shirt is both a metaphor and a feeling, crafted from soft black pre-shrunk Comfort Colors cotton. Tagged with the original OBJECT logo, it features a small image of Mount Saint Helens erupting positioned directly over the heart.

Columnar Tables

$550 for a single table.
$1500 for set

Columnar metal tables by
Markus Metal Works.
Once upon a time in the Pacific Northwest, survival required fluency in many trades. Troy Markus of Markus Metal Works embodies that older regional ethic. An emergency room doctor who has also worked in the sciences, education, and coal mining, Markus brings a utilitarian intelligence to metalwork. This grouping is inspired by the basalt columns on the Northwest Irish coast, echoing geological time, fracture, and repetition. His tables feel less like designed objects and more like inevitable ones that are shaped by material knowledge, restraint, and a distinctly Northwest pragmatism.

The Northwest Kitchen
A Seasonal Cookbook
by Judie Geise.

$ 75

Before the computer crowd, before the tattoo people in restaurants who act like they’re curing cancer, before you could get a baguette anywhere in Seattle, there was Judy Geise.
The Northwest Kitchen: A Seasonal Cookbook (1978) is a celebrated guide to Pacific Northwest cuisine, renowned for its focus on seasonal, local ingredients and its elegant design, featuring distinctive sumi illustrations by George Tsutakawa. The book offers a wide range of recipes reflecting the region’s culinary diversity, and the mix of thoughtful cooking and artistic presentation makes it a beloved resource for home cooks and collectors alike.