{"id":5143,"date":"2026-01-09T02:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2026-01-09T02:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:21:39","slug":"sc103-is-opening-a-jewel-box-of-a-store-on-henry-street-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/?p=5143","title":{"rendered":"SC103 Is Opening a Jewel Box of a Store on Henry Street in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Claire McKinney and Sophie Andes-Gascon outside of their new store at 25 Henry Street.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Photo: Lucia Bell-Epstein \/ Courtesy of SC103<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Plywood, not sugarplums, have been dancing in Claire McKinney\u2019s and Sophie Andes-Gascon\u2019s heads. In the lead up to the holidays the SC103 designers have been readying their first store, at 25 Henry Street in lower Manhattan, and their involvement has gone beyond window dressing. With help from friends and family, they\u2019ve been knocking down walls, painting, staining wood, and generally getting their hands dirty.<\/p>\n

\u201cClaire and I,\u201d joked Andes-Gascon, \u201cwere like, they should have an HGTV show about us, if only we liked being in front of the camera.\u201d Having found the space on Craigslist, the two signed the lease on November 1. Opening day is December 12, which means it took them just 41 days to go from 0 to 60. Where there\u2019s a will, there\u2019s a way.<\/p>\n

Having a storefront has long been on the friends\u2019 wishlist in a crazy-dream-that-was-unlikely-to-come-true kind of way. Yet looking back, the designers have paved the way for Henry Street through the pop-ups they hosted in their work spaces, first on John Street in FiDi and more recently at Beard Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn. \u201cWe just really loved the experience of getting to know customers and inviting people into our space and having that face-to-face,\u201d said McKinney. Added to that, said Andes-Gascon, \u201cwe love creating little worlds and decorating spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new shop is long and rectangular, extending back from a front window to a changing room and kiosk above which is an attic nook that was revealed when a false front was taken down. Along the walls are modular units that frame SC103 designs and found objects. When McKinney\u2019s father, an architect who did the renderings, saw the plans come to life, Andes-Gascon recounted, \u201che described it as the inside of a jewelry box, which makes me think of the twirling figurine inside. When inside the store,\u201d she continued, \u201cI feel shrunken to figurine size, there\u2019s things we get to look up at. There\u2019s some part of it that feels like we\u2019re down a tunnel, over the river and through the woods.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, the designers are finding Two Bridges\u2014the neighborhood the store is in\u2014to be very collegial and community oriented. Friends are running restaurants nearby, galleries are moving in, and they were able to find almost everything they needed, from lumber to wood stain, within a few blocks. While I was visiting the yet-to-be-opened space, passersby eagerly stopped to look in the window. All of this brought back memories of NoLita in the 2000s when Jane Mayle and A D\u00e9tacher\u2019s Mona Kowalska were retail pioneers there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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