Hardware shop

After the Dwell prefab popup party at SXSW Eco this past October, we spent the next Saturday checking out a number of modern homes and happenings around Austin, where we stumbled with delight upon TreeHouse, the new green hardware store company with a focus on design that's already earned a local tagline as the "Whole Foods version of Home Depot." We toured the store and the next week back in San Francisco, caught up with TreeHouse CEO, Paul Yanosy, to chat.

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My interest was the Ball-Stopped Reverse Waterfall Plug-in Hook, which in this case just happened to display an array of shovels, spades, and pitchforks...

Light duty cantilever racking provides easy accessibility together with support along the length of the item being stored. For manually loaded goods with less load, you can choose light cantilever racking.

Dowsing & Reynolds at Clerkenwell Design Week 2019. Contemporary door hardware in matt black, copper, leather and brass.

Here a great example of Plumbing & Hardware Pegboard Outfitting. If you are Plumbing or Hardware Supply served from backstock, your front-of-shop Pegboard

Old beautiful hardware store in Prenzlauer berg. I would love to put one of these ladders in my store

We see Steampunk props all the time and wonder where the maker found all their pieces. In fact, for some people it's almost like a game to examine each prop and see if they can name all of the original parts. However, for a newcomer (or a novice at prop-making), it may be really hard to tell what parts are used where. It may surprise you to learn exactly how many of those parts aren't amazing antique, one-of-a-kind things, but are actually stocked in large quantities at your local hardware…

Bangkok is a mega city - approximately 10 million residents - that is full of giant structures and vanity projects. But down at street level there are also small details and all manner of graphic and architectural flavours. Here are images from a recent walk through the small alleys beside the river where various material suppliers create unintended textures and forms.