Oops! These images of our First Annual Community Appreciation Yard Party/Sale got lost in the mix during our monthly flip.
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Thanks so much to everyone who came out. If you missed it, please know we still have lots of this stuff left for dirt cheap.
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We want our furniture collection to go away, so we've cut prices down to half of what they were yesterday! Please stop by 3816 SE Lafayette Ct. 12-6 to get your goods and to, perhaps, join us in a BBQ to celebrate Navid's birthday, which will run late!
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In addition to our yard party and sale going on this weekend, all non-consignment fashion is 40% off in the space, which means most of what remains from our May 2011 Christian/Carnivale Lookbook is really cheap. And the $1-$5 pile is going on too!
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Leave it to Portland to pour! But the show must go on, eh. This Saturday and Sunday from 12-6 p.m. we're holding a furniture clearing house in the garage at 3816 SE Lafayette Ct., Portland, OR. 97202, which is one block South of Powell and one block West of 39th/Cesar Chavez). Please come! We'll be BBQ-ing in the back, sipping on adult beverages, and clearing out the basement to make way for our new private showroom (which you can get a sneak peak at if you've never seen our whole collection all in one place at one time (it's pretty impressive)! Feel free to bring stuff to sell, also. It's gunna be a good time!
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In addition to everything you see here (pretty much just Wynde's and Melissa De Merit's stuff), several other consignors, volunteers, neighbors and Golden Rule community members will be bringing their goods. We've got an event tent set up outside, and we think it would be SUPER rad and totally hilarious if everyone else brought a camping tent to stay dry under! If you get lost or confused trying to find us, feel free to call (503) 863-1545 for directions or confidence boosting. Read more?
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Mark your calendars for next weekend when all the amazing clothes you saw in our May 2011 Christian/Carnival Lookbook will be marked down to 40% off (to do the math you multiply the price by .6 for the sale price). There's still tons of great stuff left!
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This sale will run concurrent with our montly $5-or-less make an offer pile, and this month it'll run concurrent with our First Annual Community Appreciation Party where you'll be able to score dirt cheap furniture and housewares during the BBQ!
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Mark your calendars for May 28th and 29th when we're hosting our first annual community appreciation day! Rain or shine from noon to whenever the fun's over we'll be barbecuing yumminess, drinking adult beverages, selling our personal goods at yard sale prices, and informally sharing our appreciation to the past year's volunteers, interns, consignors, artists, and customers. If you fall into any of the above categories (or if you aspire to!) you're welcome to be a vendor or a visitor!
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This off-site event will run concurrent with our 40%-off non-consignment sale in the space and will feature dirt cheap prices on all furniture from past Golden Rule iterations. By the end of the weekend we hope to have cleared the basement floor to make way for our forthcoming shiny new by-appointment-only fashion showroom, which you can get a sneak peak of if you stop by! For more information see the FaceBook event listing for our First Annual Golden Rule Community Appreciation Days.
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Lots of folks have been asking us how much our custom credenza by Jay Cryer is, and twice as many have been asking about Sally England's AMAZING macrame and electroluminescent wire wall hanging. They're $1200 each. Which is a total score.
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We realize $1200 is a lot of money, but these pieces are locally made by dedicated artisans and, you get what you pay for. We're open to doing payment plans, so if you're interested in these pieces email us at info@goldenruleportland.com.
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After the eclectica of December's group show/Christmas gift shop orientation, we're envisioning January as a return to cohesive theme land for us at Golden Rule. It's funny, at first it was hard for our customers/consigners to wrap their heads around how we create an entirely new environment each month. Now everyone's confused when we go theme-off/normal store for a month!

If you're interested in consigning fashion for January, we're looking for architectural pieces, structural things, as well as minimalist pieces, simple, tunic-esque stuff, shift dresses, pieces with strong shapes and/or shapeless-ness. Geometry is also a hot commodity for January. From the MTF estate we've got quite an impressive collection of raw silk, wool, and silk women's business suits (you know, NICE business suits, not the boring stuff from the mall). We'd love to infuse what we've got with a broader size spectrum (MTF was quite tiny), as well as any other stand-out 1980s business attire. We're planning to keep the fashion predominately white, gray, light earth tones, with spots of black here and there (color will be back soon!)

If you're interested in consigning furniture for January, we're leaning in a medical/industrial direction, hoping to find some steel or white cabinets, surgical tables/shelving, rolling carts (old TV trays spraypainted white MIGHT work . . . ), maybe even those rolling things they use to hang IV fluid bags from (I've always thougth they'd make nice coat racks or jewelry displays!) sleek surgical shelving. Worse comes to worse, we'll get more white drawers or shelves from Ikea. It's our hope to relegate all visual clutter to the interior of cabinets and drawers so the space is as minimalist as possible.

Basically, we'd like Golden Rule to feel a bit like the doctor's office in Eugene Smith's 1948 Country Doctor photo essay. We want you to be the restless patient who's been kept waiting while the good doctor runs out for a medical emergency. We want you to be the patient who gets bored and starts snooping through the medical cabinets, leafing through the brochures, etc.

If you're someone who would like to contribute to our vision, please contact us. Although we have a steady roster of fashion/jewelry/object consigners, we are always accepting new consigners, particularly those who deal in furniture. Likewise, we are open to borrowing/renting pieces of furniture that help us create the environment we envision for our monthly art shows.
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Our friend Evan Jones has built us a lovely set of cedar boxes. The space smells like a cedar hope chest right now! They're modified from a pattern in a 1970s DIY home improvement book, and have the perfect combination of form and function.  The large ones (14" cubed interior) are perfect for stacking into towers, triangles, or cubes, as bins for laundry, or as stand-alone pieces, say, for a night stand or an end-table. They're also perfect for moving, girl-sized so as not to be too heavy, w/good grip.
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The small boxes will serve all the same purposes as the large ones, but they are custom made to fit your records (12.75" cubed interior). Hear that, ladies and gentlemen, you can now graduate out of milk crates and into cedar boxes without having to pony up for these guys from Ikea. Not that we don't love those Ikea shelves (they are really one of the 4 things from Ikea we like), but wouldn't it be nicer to have something local-made, modifiable, and smelling like a jaunt through a cedar forest. We think so!
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Yesterday Navid suggested we check out some new antique store he'd stumbled into last week. Seek The Unique, at 931 SE 6th Ave., Portland, OR 97214, is a fascinating place of antiquities, industrial furniture, and other oddities. After two years of being an auction house w/by-appointment-only retail, they opened two weeks ago in a retail-only capacity. Glad they did. Although there are very few for-resale scores here (in other words, we won't be shopping for Golden Rule here), the prices are not too much higher than they'd be at any of the other places I pick for my own home furnishings, and the selection is great.
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I fell in love with this industrial mail cubby :(
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Butterflies!
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Bones!
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Old vellum drafting plans
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A bowl of raw wool!
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Limited but lovely fashion (and LOTS of great wool blankets!)
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Want. So. Bad. These anatomy figures!
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There are so many beautiful textiles.
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I most wanted to take home their dogs.
Since there's very little web presence for the place, I'll say it feels a little like This Is Not Ikea in LA, with less of a Mid-Century/Industiral edge and more of a cassic antique/industrial curation. It's a huge warehouse, with lots of light and strategically sloppy arrangements of large pieces of furniture and decorative items, with not much small stuff, but great big stuff. As a whole, the place is a little to "interior-designey" for me personally (not quite sure how to explain that except if you were to contrast architectural photos from Architectural Digest w/those from Apartamento you'd get the idea), but the parts are great.
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For December we're planning to showcase some simple box stacking units Evan Jones is building. We stopped by for a studio visit to see how they're coming along. Evan says, "Pardon the naked ladies on the screen. It's a program about childbirth."
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We're super excited about these boxes! Modified from a template in a 1970s home improvement book, they'll come in two sizes, one for records, another a little larger, and will be priced between $30-$40 by size. Perfect for storage OR display!
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