Lucie Monk Carter
This Black Friday, spend your dollars locally, with local shops like Molly Taylor's Beneath the Bark.
Now properly post-Thanksgiving turkey fattened, America looks out over the precipice of the biggest shopping weekend of the year. In hopes of helping you gather the most impressive of bounties (gifts and grabs alike), we've drawn together stories of some of our favorite locally-owned shops worth patronizing this Black Friday and Small Business Saturday. Even better for the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of these are shop-able online.
Kimberly Meadowlark
Vintage albums abound at Pop Shop Records, owned by Charlotte Smith.
Pop Shop Records and Baton Rouge Music Exchange
Inside an old-church in Mid City Baton Rouge, music lovers and makers come together for one of the best selections of vinyl and well-loved instruments in the regions. On Black Friday, Pop Shop Records is also hosting Record Store Day, promising an exciting list of new releases.
Courtesy of HALO MIMI
Silver heavy fur felt with velvet band and tulle detail, modeled by Katlin Turner, FT45 agency.
HALO MIMI
Mimi Holaday's luxury hat designs combine an ancient art with contemporary style. Nola-born-and-raised, internationally-trained, and Baton Rouge-based, Holaday offers a couture quality product that can be worn as a standout piece every single day of the year.
Photo by Jacqueline Marque, courtesy of Doorman.
Doorman’s signature “Amelia” Round Wooden Dining Table, pictured at Sherry Shirah Designs.
Doorman Designs
With the spirit of salvage, Alex Geriner has built one of New Orleans' most contemporary furniture companies up from a single headboard. An online-only company, Doorman has sent the storied and styled woods of Louisiana all across the globe.
Photo by Amanda Ramer.
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Kismet Cosmetics
Opened in brick-and-mortar earlier this year by Catilin Picou, Kismet Cosmetics is all about clean ingredients and confidence, and was featured on Billion Dollar Buyer in 2017. Picou's Covington storefront offers everything from spray tans to makeup. May we suggest starting with the Velvet Semi-Matte Lipstick in the shade “Country Roads”?
Paul Kieu
The Louisiana Marketshops at the 115 offers a marvelous miscellany of Louisiana-infused odds and ends.
Marketshops at the 115
This funky one-stop-shop in Henderson hosts work from hundreds of Louisiana artists, makers, musicians, and authors. The market's over-the-top style is enough to liven up your Friday, but you're almost guaranteed to leave with something totally one-of-a-kind and regionally inspired.
Lucie Monk Carter
Beneath the Bark
Molly Taylor's had a busy year. After debuting at New York Fashion Week last fall, the Baton Rouge artist and musician's signature wooden jewelry has been featured in Vogue, Elle, and Vanity Fair. (Not to mention, she started a new musical concept with her husband, Hippie Witches, which you can read about here.)
Courtesy of Tatro
Tatro
Will Barrios's imaginative toy company continues to encourage imagination and innovation in kids through his unique magnetic playsets. For a limited time, shoppers can purchase Tatro's Holiday Gift Packs at fifty percent off.
Lucie Monk Carter
Garrett Kemp, owner of The Market at Circa 1857.
The Market at 1857
Once the site of the romantic rendezvous that was our 2019 Valentines Day Supper Club, Baton Rouge's most eclectic and, dare we say, youthful antique shop holds the possibility for the most special, and often unexpected, of finds.
Lucie Monk Carter
Mementos of Bumps, a lifelong lover of writing and of memories, and his wife, Fronnie, whose love of sweet olive trees inspired the name of Wohlberg and Fuller's business.
Sweet Olive Heirloom
An incomparable gift for the sentimental ones in your life, a Sweet Olive Heirloom ledger opens the doors for so many memories saved, then remembered, then shared.
Matthew Noel
Kay Levine, co-owner (with Molly Bolden) of Bent Pages bookstore in Houma.
Bent Pages
Wherever you are, you should rediscover your local bookstore this Black Friday. But we hold Terrebonne's only independent shop close to our hearts.
Cheryl Gerber
Hové Parfumeur
The oldest continuously operated perfume shop in New Orleans has been run by four generations of women, and is still kicking. Try the oldest fragrance, Carnaval, or scoop up a sampler for an intrinsically New Orleanian gift like no other.
Cheryl Gerber
Herbert Halpern
Herbert Halpern’s passion for and encyclopedic knowledge of fabrics and notions; his courtly, elegant presence; and his personable approach to customer service complete the equation for his lasting success.
Promenade Fine Fabrics
Join Margaret Thatcher and Big Freedia as patrons to this St. Charles Avenue shop, which has provided our region with the best of the best in couture fabrics since 1968.
Lucie Monk Carter
For your best friend in the department of competitive gift-giving: a matching mink collar and purse set.
Denham Springs Antique Village
Join writer Chris Turner-Neal as he wanders through the various antique shops in Denham Springs, where you can find anything from birdhouses to a matching mink collar and purse set.
Denny Culbert
Wild Child Wines opened in downtown Lafayette in January, offering the first curated selection of natural wines in the Acadiana area—along with an intimate tasting bar perfect for hanging out on summer evenings. Working with small-scale producers, the collection is always changing. See the most up-to-date options at wildchildwines.com, where each wine is accompanied by a detailed description of its flavor profile, as well as its makers and their unique production methods.
Wild Child Wines
A gift you can't go wrong with, especially if it's for yourself. The funky artisanal spirits of natural wines make a trip to Wild Child more special than your normal Walgreens run, and the superb branding on most bottles certainly adds to the celebration.
