“As a kid growing up on Long Island, I hated old furniture. My dad dragged me to yard sales every weekend when I wanted to be playing basketball with my friends instead of digging around piles of rusty tools and broken guitars. But he must have planted a seed in my brain, because in my early twenties, while I was studying photography in the Bay Area, I fell in love with the flea markets of Northern California.”
Sit and Read has just opened its doors in NYC after a long story of Craiglist to Apartment Therapy and flea markets in between. Owner Kyle Garner collected vintage furniture for years to use on film sets but it all got too big for a small lock-up in Long Island and so Sit and Read was born.
Recently working with menswear designer Unis, Garner redesigned the Elizabeth Street store. More collaborations with men’s clothing stores followed, along with interior-design and consulting work with individual clients. And the shop expanded, too, with many of Sit and Read’s larger pieces moving to Strawser & Smith, a few blocks away.
Using this space as a concept store, Garner invited 6 Decades Books, a rare-books business owned by Jeremy Sanders, into the shop. With the addition of 6 Decades, Sit and Read has come full circle from a prop archive to a curated gallery.
Watch this fab video of Garner reupholstering a gorgeous Jens Risom chair in Unis fabric. I want…
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