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If you've never been to Santa Fe, summer is a glorious time. The days start out clear and blue, but cool from the previous evening's rain. Just as the heat starts to build around midday, so do the thunderheads, and by mid-afternoon, we usually get a good soaking. And
if we're really lucky, it clears out by the evening, and you can walk to town for dinner.
Santa Fe is in full bloom in summer--not just the flowers, but the all of the sights, sounds, smell, and cultural events flourish during the summer.
From a quiet town of 65,000, we mushroom to 200,000 come Indian Market in mid-August. Every night there's something to do. So why not join the fun, we thought? And on the Opening Weekend of the SITE Santa Fe Biennial, we did. With a Product Launch of wonderful furniture, tableware, gift items and more from over 20 companies from around the world.
What was my impetus for this? A wonderful new business partnership with Margarita Waxman. Margarita and I have worked together on various art and design projects over the years, finding out that two women from very different parts of the globe could have a lot more in common than people might think. Growing up, a WASPy blond girl in Hollywood, I always wanted to be more exotic than I was. In high school, my friends and I called ourselves the mini-United Nations, because we represented so many different countries and ethnic backgrounds. Sadly, I was the least exotic. . . Margarita grew up literally in the shadow of the UN. Born in the Dominican Republic, her family moved to the US when Margarita was five years old, after pleading asylum. (Her father's attempts to launch a mobile library program to raise the literacy rate in his homeland had met with great opposition from the Trujillo dictatorship.) Her father spent the rest of his career in the US working for the UN library--while Margarita, growing up a Dominican-American girl on the North Shore of Long Island, fantasized about being, well, Peggy Sue.
Our collaboration is the place where our WASPy and exotic tastes, backgrounds, and dreams mesh. You'll find high-end Italian furniture alongside Native American textiles. You'll find colorful, well-designed, affordable gifts from around the world--from South Africa to Finland to Colombia to Canada. And you'll find a wonderful representation of art and design from right here in Santa Fe. Margarita and I are looking forward to expanding both the retail aspect of the store, as well as the Victoria Price Collection. And of course, our interior design and custom furniture businesses continue to flourish.
So take some time to stop by this summer, or to visit our ever-expanding website, and check out some of the changes at Victoria Price Art & Design.