Spring 2014

Best Sellers in Baltimore, MD By Duffy Weir

Trohv

Carmen Brock, Owner
www.trohv.com
Concept: An inventive home goods/gift shop

Only a language arts teacher would use the phonetic spelling ‘T-r-o-h-v’ to name her store. This 6,000 square-foot store really is a treasure trove of gifts and furniture. There are vintage goods in here mixed in with work from local artists. Owner Carmen Brock shops gift shows, flea markets, and works directly with local furniture makers. “Our favorites are turning material into something that’s practical and resourceful so we spend a lot of time looking for people with vintage goods whether it is tool molds that can be sculptures or wooden boxes that can become coffee tables,” she says.

Best Sellers
Housewares/Barware Vital Industries, Brooklyn Brew Shop, Fish’s Eddy
Manufactured Furniture Four Hands, The Bramble Company
Books Random House, Chronicle Books, Macmillan and Cork
Aprons Funktion

Duffy Weir

Duffy Weir is the former vice president and director of Specialty Retail and Marketing at The Rouse Company in Columbia, Maryland. She is now an independent retail marketing and sponsorship consultant, and a senior writer for Specialty Retail Report. Weir travels the world searching for what she says “makes marketplaces tick.” She can be reached at Duffyllc@comcast.net or her office 410-252-8885.