We're excited to invite you to a four-day pop-up shop and experience produced in collaboration with our friends of KAAREM and Studio Mondine. For this fourth installment of AR et al., KAAREM will have a selection of their collection available to shop for their first ever pop-up in California. Studio Mondine will be back for their second site-specific floral installation. And we will be launching our fall collection! Come by to visit us October 24–27!

Illustration by An Vo

AR et al.
No. 4 with KAAREM, Studio Mondine, and Abacus Row
October 24–October 27

Shop Hours
12PM–6PM (Weekdays)
11AM–6PM (Weekends)

Location
Abacus Row
1256 Mason Street
San Francisco 94108

OPENING RECEPTION

Join us on Thursday evening, October 24, from 6 to 9 PM for our opening reception. Come by to enjoy the fullness of our pop-up shop on day 1, to get a first look at the artful Studio Mondine floral installation, and to delight in some of our favorite Vietnamese bites and beverages while you shop. 

Details
Date – Thursday, October 24
Time – 6–9PM
Location – Abacus Row
Address – 1256 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 
Please RSVP here or email info@abacusrow.com
(RSVP kindly requested though not required)

PROGRAMMING

Drawing inspiration from our shared Vietnamese American identities, this four-day pop-up experience will reflect our thoughts on and connections to the Vietnamese diaspora. In addition to the shop and opening reception, you can also look forward to a film night, a lunch pop-up with Rice Paper Scissors, and Vietnamese coffee pop-up with Kasama Caphe.

THU, OCT 24, 6–9PM
Opening Reception
please RSVP here or email (info@abacusrow.com)

FRI, OCT 25, 7:30–9:30PM
Short Films Night
featuring Burn To Send by Andinh Ha and some shorts filmed in Vietnam

SAT, OCT 26, 11AM–2PM
Rice Paper Scissors Lunch Pop-Up

SUN, OCT 27, 11AM–2PM
Kasama Caphe Vietnamese Coffee Pop-Up

ABOUT

AR et al. is a series of pop-ups produced at the Abacus Row studio in collaboration with independent artists, designers and small business owners. This is an on-going project that aims to showcase the work of fellow creatives, to build an interdisciplinary community and to explore various creative synergies.

KAAREM
We are based out of New York City and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. KAAREM is focused on details, construction and craft. We create artisanal designs and products inspired by craft, community and our roots. Each piece is designed and crafted in our production studio where we specialize in finishing each garment by hand using the blind stitch method. We have a small in-house team of designers, patternmakers, and craftspersons focused on the details and dedicated to quality. 

kaarem.com 
@kaaremvn

Studio Mondine
Studio Mondine is a floral design studio based in foggy San Francisco, California. We seek to balance the lushness of English garden arrangements with the precision of Japanese ikebana in our work. We look to nature and the changing of the seasons to inform our designs. It's with feverish enthusiasm that we seek out the rarest ingredients, working directly with the finest flower farmers in the nation or cultivating these special blooms ourselves in our small cutting garden. 

studiomondine.com 
@studiomondine

Abacus Row
Abacus Row is an independent brand of refined and understated jewelry. Our line reflects an unexpectedly subtle approach to beadwork. Thoughtfully detailed and meticulously crafted, each piece is designed for the sophisticated individual with a discerning eye and effortless sense of style. Our jewelry is crafted in-house, at our production studio and showroom located in Nob Hill in San Francisco, CA. 

abacusrow.com 
@abacusrow

For our third installment of AR et al. we are partnering with re.riddle, an itinerant contemporary art gallery curating socially engaging and multidisciplinary exhibitions. The upcoming installment, Pour the Line, is a site-store-happening-anything, and will run for three weeks between September and October.

Linda Lui, Creative Director for Pour the Line, writes:

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re.riddle is an itinerant gallery featuring site-specific exhibitions and pop-up events worldwide. Recent exhibitions include The Body Electric in collaboration with CCCSF and 41 Ross, Marqueyssac, Dordogne, France, re:home, For Freedoms exhibition in collaboration with AKArt, San Francisco, Alma Yoray: The Stillness, The Dancing, Chicago, After Tomorrow, French Consulate of San Francisco, San Francisco, Poursuite, Musée de Montmartre, Paris and forthcoming exhibitions in San Francisco, London and Hong Kong. Our mission is to contribute to the discourse on contemporary art in thought provoking and playfully subversive ways. Via new modes of production, reception and consumption, re.riddle places an emphasis on the whimsical in hopes that art continues to arouse curiosity and promotes an awareness of its profound impact on our daily surroundings and lives. www.reriddle.com

AR et al. is a series of pop-ups produced by Abacus Row in collaboration with others – independent designers, artists and small business owners. This is an on-going project for our company to explore various creative synergies, to showcase the work of fellow creatives, and to build community.

For our first installment of AR et al. – a series of pop-ups produced at our studio & showroom in collaboration with others (designers, artists, and fellow small business owners) – we teamed up with our friends, Amanda Luu & Ivanka Matsuba of Studio Mondine and Danielle Colen of Waltz. We couldn't have asked for better partners to kick off this series. 

Sending thanks to all who dropped in for our two-day show and celebrated the opening reception with us. Many thanks to our event partners, Troop (@drinktroop) who provided refreshing cocktails and Mikiko Yui (@miki.sf) who delighted us with her incredible caneles. 

Photography credit: Melissa Habegger. 

FINE JEWELRY POP-UP WITH EMI GRANNIS • THURSDAY – SUNDAY

Join us this week for our four-day pop-up with fine jewelry designer and metalsmith, Emi Grannis. We've been looking forward to showcasing the work of fellow jewelry designers who we admire and are thrilled to kick things off with Emi Grannis' fine jewelry line. Emi is wonderfully talented and kind, her work is ethereal and timeless, and we are delighted to share it with you in-person. Come by our showroom this week for a special opportunity to shop Emi Grannis alongside Abacus Row.

LE DIX SEPT • SATURDAY ONLY!
On Saturday, Michelle Hernandez of Le Dix Sept will also be setting up shop at our studio. Come by early for her beautiful and delicious, botanically inspired pastries. Doors open at 11am on Saturday and pastries will be available until she sells out so come early!

Hours: 11am–sell out (come early!)

We're taking our best-selling summer palette right into the autumn months. With its warm mix of purples, grounded with ochre and popping with red, these pieces will guide an artful transition right into your fall wardrobe.   

As of late, we're particularly smitten around here with how our Etel Collection styles in horizon and blush/red come together so nicely with pieces from our latest Blue/Red Collection. It's always a delight to see new ways of combining and layering across the collections, and over the years. 

We’re excited to announce the first installation of AR et al. – a series of pop-ups produced at our studio & showroom in collaboration with others (designers, artists, and fellow small business owners). For the first AR et al. pop-up shop, we’re teaming up with our friends of Studio Mondine and Waltz for a two-day experience of artistic and collaborative design.

Studio Mondine will be creating a site-specific floral installation, a special opportunity to view their work, at scale and in-person. Waltz will be sharing their latest collection packed with bright summer hues. We’re thrilled to debut new and limited designs that we’ve created just for this two-day event. We’ve even concocted a special fragrance candle to commemorate this magical collaboration!

Please join us for the reception of AR et al. on Friday, Aug 2, from 6-8 pm. Come by to view the work from these independent SF designers, and enjoy delicious caneles by Mikiko Yui (@miki.sf) and refreshing cocktails from Troop (@drinktroop).

RSVP kindly requested for our opening reception. Please reserve your tickets here. 

Pasture is composed of verdant greens and yellows, balanced with soft pink and blue hues, and accented with a striking primary red. Pasture is the most playful and varied of our palettes inspired by the contemporary paintings of Lebanese-American artist and poet, Etel Adnan. It has the electric feel of youth and summertime. 

Join me on Wednesday, June 19 for BUDS! I'm opening up the studio doors for an intimate pop-up with some of my wonderful and talented creative friends.

I couldn't be more excited about partnering up with such an awesome group of women. Each of whom, it turns out, leaves some mark in my everyday, either at work or at home. 

THE BUDS:

Melanie Abrantes Designs – Melanie Abrantes is one of my dearest creative business friends. She designs and crafts beautiful wood and cork home products. I own many MAD pieces, my favorite among them is her buckeye burl bud vase that sits on my dresser. 

Maria Schoettler – Maria is the talented illustrator who created the flier above for this upcoming Buds pop-up. If you've ordered jewelry from us recently, you may have admired the sweet pink and orange tissue paper adorned with poppies. She also designed that goodness.  

Pair Up – Our bud Emma Brooks just launched her clothing line of thoughtful basics at the end of May. So much to celebrate! We can't wait for you to try on her new painter's jackets in all the bold colors. Emma also founded Hands-On Everyday, an incredible resource for customizable designs that I've used for materials for Abacus Row.  

GDS Cloth Goods – Geana Sieburger founded GDS to provide sustainable alternatives for people who appreciate simple modern design and to offer a line that contributes to a more equitable fashion and textile industry. You can usually find me in one of Geana's smocks at the studio. Perhaps, I'll wear it next Wednesday :) 

Sarah Kersten – Sarah produces sculpturally beautiful and effortlessly functional pottery. I have a couple of her deep ramen bowls in my home that make all of our meals a little nicer and are way too pretty to ever put away in a cabinet. 

In addition to all the wonderful friends that will be present on Wednesday, I'm also incredibly excited for the launch of our Blue/Red Collection next week. The collection will hit the online store on Wednesday and will be in our studio showroom ready to try-on and shop at our Buds pop-up! 

Hope to see you there! And bring friends!

BUDS POP-UP DETAILS
Date: Wednesday, June 19
Time: 5-8 pm
Location: Abacus Row Studio
Address: 1256 Mason Street, SF 94108

This latest collection stacked with color was named after Lebanese American artist and poet, Etel Adnan. Adnan’s contemporary paintings, which we first discovered during a visit to SFMOMA, inspired our approach and use of varied colors and hues in this collection. Where my designs are often derived from pattern work, the development of this collection offered a study in finding composition primarily from pairing and combining colors. The Etel Collection focuses on color and hue thoughtfully arranged to appeal to one’s sensibilities.  

Each of our palettes was inspired by a particular painting. With each of these we created palettes to evoke a distinctive mood. Shore, which is composed of muted colors - pink, blue and grey, and accented with a bright, almost-neon yellow, and black, is the more calming of the palettes. The combination overall is soothing, one that makes me nostalgic for the soothing overcast Puget Sound landscape of my hometown. Pasture is composed of verdant greens and yellows, balanced with soft pink and blue hues, and accented with a striking primary red. Pasture is the most playful and varied of our palettes. It has the electric feel of youth and summertime. Horizon is a warm mix of purples, balanced with terra cotta and muted pink, and highlighted with primary red and yellow marks. This is a palette made of 8 different colors, blocked and paired to illustrate our favorite summer days – full and warm.   

Abacus Row is carried in over one hundred stores across the country. We are beyond grateful to have the support of our stockists and to be partnered with a list of wonderful small businesses. (So many of which we have been working with for years). The stores that carry our line are small and independent, most are women-owned, and all are committed to their communities.

Today and everyday, we hope you’ll go out to support the small businesses that contribute to the vibrancy and character of your neighborhood. We encourage you to go out and shop the local brick-and-mortar shops that are rooted in your community and are dedicated to introducing you to thoughtfully designed and crafted product from brands like ours.  

Where to shop Abacus Row?

Send us an email at info@abacusrow.com and we’ll share a list of the closest shops to you.

Happy Small Business Saturday!