Friday December 13th: Holiday Trunk Show at ARCH

 Calliope

ARCH will be hosting a Friday the 13th Trunk Show on Friday, December 13th from 6-8PM featuring jewelry designs by Tai Ludnay, and accessories and gifts by Fluffy Co. and Calliope. We will be providing wine and light snacks as well. Come shop ARCH for unique stocking-stuffers and holiday gifts from our featured local Bay Area artisans.

Tai Ludnay

ARCH thanks you for supporting local artists and businesses this holiday season.  ARCH has a great selection of holiday cards, gift wrap, and supplies for creating great DIY gifts. We hope to see you for all of your holiday needs.

Fluffy Co.

Saturday December 7th: Holiday Snail Mail Social

Saturday, December 7th from 1-4PM we are hosting a Snail Mail Social with our friends Annie Yu and Carolee Wheeler. We'll have vintage typewriters, custom stationery and all sorts of embellishments to encourage you to get out from behind the computer screen and send a letter. Mail your family a holiday note, or type up your naughty and nice list.

Bring the kids and they can write a letter to Santa. We will be hosting calligraphy artist Sarah Hanna from whom you can purchase a beautiful, personalized, hand-written Santa response that will be mailed to your home or available here for pick up at Arch! Look at the beautiful letter Otto received from Santa last year!

Halloween Gifts and Supplies

ARCH is ready for Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos...are you? We have a great assortment of Halloween gifts and supplies to make great masks, costumes and props. Have an idea that you need help executing? Come by and pick our brains!

ARCH also has face paint sets from Snazaroo for your Dia De Los Muertos makeup. Or bake some spooky sweets with this sugar skull cookie cutter kit. We hope you have a safe and creative Halloween!

Back To School EXTENDED HOURS! Open Until 8PM September 3-5th

It's Back-To-School time again here at ARCH! We will be open until 8PM Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday September 3-5 to help you find everything on your shopping list. We have a large selection of materials you can't find anywhere else, including model-making supplies and we offer a 10% Student and Faculty discount on supplies. ARCH has been serving the San Francisco community for 35 years and is still independently-owned and operated. Thanks for supporting ARCH this school year!

 

Strathmore SKILLS Series pads are NEW and on sale at 25% OFF. These are an affordable, recycled product meant for practice, practice, practice! A great line of pads for student work and experimentation, they come in Sketch, Drawing, Watercolor, and Mixed Media varieties. We also have select sketchpads, newsprint pads, and 300 Series Strathmore Bristol Pads on sale at 25% OFF.

Thursday August 22nd "Designing Urban Agriculture" Book Signing with April Philips

ARCH will be hosting a book signing with April Philips on Thursday August 22nd at 6PM. April is founder and principal of April Philips Design Works, an award-winning Bay Area firm that specializes in landscape architecture and urban ecology. Her new book, Designing Urban Agriculture is about the intersection of ecology, design, and community. Showcasing projects and designers from around the world who are forging new paths to the sustainable city through urban agriculture landscapes, it creates a dialogue on the ways to invite food back into the city and pave a path to healthier communities and environments. April Philips was recently interviewed by the Huffington Post about her new book. Click here to read the article.

Le Corbusier "Charette" Stencils at ARCH

ARCH has metal Le Corbusier "Charette" stencils straight from Paris! We have number sets and alphabet sets available in a range of sizes from 10mm to 25mm. These are no longer imported to the US, so ARCH is one of the few places they are available. We will only stock them until they are gone, so hurry and snag them while we still have them. 

This font was designed in the early 20th century by architect Le Corbusier to mark his architectural drawings and was named "Charette" (which is a rustic two-wheeled cart in French) by Letraset in the 1970's when they converted the font to be used in their rub-down letters. The stencils, originally made of zinc are now made with aluminum and are just as beautiful as always.

A lil' ARCH at Little Paper Planes

We are so excited to team up with Kelly from Little Paper Planes. She has introduced a "Mini ARCH" at her store in the Mission and we encourage you to check out the rotating selection of supplies we'll be offering.