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Get back to the land and in touch with California roots with Gravel & Gold's trippy silk-
screened totes, hippie homesteader smock-dresses, 1960s Osborne/Woods ecology posters,
and rare books on '70s beach-shack architecture.
Park Life
ART, GIFTS
415-386-7275;
www.parklifestore.com
; 220 Clement St;
noon-8pm
Mon-Thu, from 11am Fri & Sat, 11am-7pm Sun; 1, 2, 33, 38, 44)
The Swiss Army knife of hip SF stores: design store, indie publisher and art gallery, all in
one. Park Life presents are too good to wait for birthdays, including Golden State
pendants, Sean O'Dell utopia catalogs, and Ian Johnson's portrait of John Coltrane radiat-
ing rainbow vibes.
Heath Ceramics
HOUSEWARES
415-399-9284;
www.heathceramics.com
;
1 Ferry Bldg;
10am-7pm Mon-
Fri, 8am-6pm Sat, 11am-5pm Sun; Embarcadero, Embarcadero)
No local, artisanal SF tablescape is complete without handmade modern Heath stoneware,
thrown by potters in Heath's Sausalito studio since 1948. Pieces are priced for fine dining
except studio seconds, sold here on weekends.
Betabrand
CLOTHING
800-694-9491;
www.betabrand.com
;
780 Valencia St;
11am-7pm Mon-
Fri, to 8pm Sat, noon-6pm Sun; 14, 22, 33, 49, 16th St Mission)
Crowdsource your outfit at Betabrand, where experimental designs are put to online votes
and winners produced in limited editions. Recent designs include lunch-meat-patterned
socks, reversible smoking jackets, and bike-to-work pants with reflective-strip cuffs. Some
styles are clunkers - including 'sweans,' sweatpant jeans - but at these prices, you can af-
ford fashion risks.
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