Branch 01 - Bowen Island

We're excited to part a novel store hither on the due west coast of British Columbia, located on Bowen Island, a curt ferry ride from Vancouver.  Owner's Robin McMillan together with Branch Freedman (founder of Gamla Objects) bespeak maintain straight off opened a retail space, 'Branch 01', inward a quaint retail infinite hither inward the PNW.  All photos yesteryear Lindsay Elliott. Robin together with Branch explain:

When nosotros made a jump 2 years agone together with moved our blueprint studio from Vancouver to Bowen Island (British Columbia), nosotros wanted to create a unique environs for clients together with visitors to experience our work. Commercial infinite on Bowen Island is a rare thing, then when the tiny location side yesteryear side to Shika, our expert friends’ restaurant, came available, nosotros jumped on it.

Launched inward Apr of 2016, Branch 01 of Gamla is a tiny seasonal retail store on Bowen Island’s marina pier, a twenty infinitesimal ferry ride from Vancouver. Filled alongside a choice of one-of-a-kind goods, Branch 01 was created to showcase novel objects from our studio piece featuring like-minded independent designers together with makers inward Canada together with the Pacific Northwest. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 180 foursquare human foot infinite sandwiched betwixt 2 buildings, it's a magical niggling spot. It was a raw infinite when nosotros took possession, alongside the exposed pier boards as the floor, together with 2 of its interior walls were really the exterior walls of the neighbouring restaurants — but it had a roof alongside an incredible skylight together with patio doors leading to the stone confront behind the shop.

We wanted to retain the raw spirit of the space, creating what is essentially a refined together with designed shack, together with intentionally didn’t bespeak maintain the infinite likewise seriously as nosotros designed together with built it out. Using brilliant coral, grey, together with yellowish accents, the focal betoken of Branch 01 is a collage nosotros designed together with carved for the cash desk, inspired yesteryear international marine flags together with a nod to the store’s nautical location. Colourful plinths alongside maple bases, whitewashed fir tops, together with custom drinking glass cases render fifty-fifty to a greater extent than display opportunities, together with all of the signage for the infinite was designed together with handmade yesteryear our studio inward our workshop.

Curating the experience of the store was simply as of import as curating the things that larn inward it. Because of its minor size, we’re able to command the niggling things nigh it, similar scent together with audio — as presently as yous movement into the store, all of the dissonance from exterior goes away, allowing yous to genuinely bespeak maintain inward each together with every object inside. In add-on to the novel business we’ve produced for the store, every unmarried production inward Branch 01 has been selected alongside attention — it was either made yesteryear us, yesteryear soul nosotros know, or is something nosotros dear together with operate ourselves. We evaluate each production based on 2 uncomplicated questions: Is it special? Does it bespeak maintain a story? It’s also as of import to us that expert blueprint endure accessible to everyone, then nosotros selected a attain of cost points to stand upwards for that.

Here are a few designers together with artists yous tin await to discovery inward Season 01 of Branch 01:

Barter Design
Banquet Atelier & Workshop
Belmondo Skincare
Dahlhaus Ceramics
F. Miller Skincare
Forest & Waves
Fort Standard
Galiano Island Soap Works
Gamla Studio
Karenn.La Jewellery
Ladies & Gentlemen Studio
Maggie Boyd Ceramics
Mud + Stone Ceramics
Noble & Co. Candles
Province Apothecary Skincare
Sangre De Fruta Skincare
Strathcona Stockings
Lord's Day Dry Goods
Tuk + Milo
Union Wood Co.
Woodlot

We tend to brand on a hibernation schedule, together with ultimately, we’ve created a seasonal store that volition evolve every year. Its vi calendar month opened upwards (May-October) / shut (November-April) characteristic allows us to pass the autumn together with wintertime months creating together with sourcing novel work, piece reimagining the concept together with visual display inward the infinite itself.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few to a greater extent than pics:

Branch 01
Bowen Island Marina, 400 Bowen Island Trunk Road. Bowen Island, B.C.
(Branch 01 is correct beside where the ferry docks on Bowen Island, simply brand a correct when yous walk off the ferry together with you're there!)

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