Robert H.
Yelp
Beam & Anchor represents authentic handcrafted and upcycled Northwest American beauty. The vibe is 20th century made-in-America classic items, built to last by Americans.
This store is a warm labor of love collected from local craftspeople. Furniture, jewelry, candles, purses, bags, dog leashes - collars, scents, knives, kitchen items, crockery, pillows, lighting, pens, and notebooks mix with near antiques.
The most stunning work is the furniture. Early-mid-century classics and industrial shop items are updated with new upholstery, including Eames-Herman Miller rockers in Pendleton fabrics. Old tables and factory bases wear their age with new local Northwest hardwood tops, from trees older than a hundred years, and impeccably finished. Classic couches and chairs assume a new fifty to one hundred years life with durable recoverings and renewal. New handcrafted furniture is mixed in at reasonable prices given the craftsmanship and materials. Many of their makers are in the self same building - that's local!
It's a highly curated perfect Portland complement to Redux, Crafty Wonderland and Tanner Goods. They take The Good Mod-like items and improve them. These items at ABC would be four times the price. It would be an excellent place to shop for creative, designer and artistic individuals who have a romance for aesthetics that fall in time between before great grandparents and after mid-century modern.
If you are visiting Portland, have friends & relatives visiting, or live in Portland and are looking for handcrafted items, you will enjoy visiting this store. In fact, you might just want to set up an old canvas tent, light a campfire, put some coffee, bacon and eggs on, curl up in your Pendleton and live here!
(Note Interstate Avenue is divided here, the best parking is on N. Knott Street off Mississippi, they have a small lot, or walk from N. Russell nearby)