On a warm, late summer day, Marcia took a stroll through Boerum Hill to Gowanus to meet up with artist Sue Allbert. Touring Sue's studio and the Gowanus Canal, Marcia and Sue chatted about Sue's New York Textile Month's exhibit, materials, process, and inspiration. M.PATMOS: Can you share the inspiration behind this year’s New York Textile Month Textile Installation?...
On her way upstate for a little post holidays in the shop getaway, Marcia took a detour to do a studio visit with artist, Gemma Gambee. Around a sunny dining room table, Marcia and Gemma chatted about meditation, mindful practices, color and inspiration while carefully selecting paintings to bring down to Brooklyn for the upcoming exhibit...
On a recent quiet and sunny day, we visited our founder, Marcia Patmos, at her Boerum Hill home to catch up on all that is new with the M.PATMOS brand and revisit her journey as a designer. Seated amidst the work that follows any small business owner home — pots and mordants used for indigo dyeing, idle softbox stands for...
Feeling newly vaccinated with hope in our step, we ventured out for a visit with our Boerum Hill neighbor and local bag designer, Susannah Thompson, to explore the masklessness of it all around others. Fueled by coffee and green juice, we streamed Bieber and danced around the garden’s lavender pots, dressed in our new styles. As soon as...
In time for the Valentine’s holiday, we caught up with one of our favorite jewelry artists and super moms, Jane D’Arensbourg, on a recent morning between the scuffle of remote school and a trip to the dentist. We spoke of her new life outside the city, pandemic gardening in a bookcase, how anyone found anything before Instagram, and the way...
