Candystore Collective owner makes Eichler cozy
You never know what you’ll come across on Craigslist. Jennifer Jones can vouch for that. While searching for a midcentury dresser last fall, she happened upon a rental listing for a four-bedroom Eichler in the Oakland hills with a bay view. Smitten, she surrendered her quintessential San Francisco apartment and moved into a light-filled, midcentury retreat.
Some might consider that a bit impulsive. For those who can identify with Jones’ craving for vintage, such a move is entirely rational. Enviable, even.
Jones owns Candy-store Collective in the Mission District (www.candystorecollective.com), the ultimate assemblage for women and men’s indie designers, vintage furnishings and kitsch knickknacks, indelible paper goods and a succession of art shows. The texture-rich, scrappy space with bare walls is balanced by rows of jars brimming with nostalgic sweets, sets of salvaged doors transformed into card displays, and cases and shelves with graphic silk scarves, gleaming jewelry and cheeky pottery.
As she does at her collective, Jones puts to good use the nooks and crannies so liberally provided in the variety of residential architecture she’s occupied throughout Northern California.
“The focus of my dwellings over the years has always been on the little treasures I’ve found while thrifting and traveling, or gifts from friends, family keepsakes and artwork,” says Jones. So the Eichler’s modern muscle and clean lines admittedly presented a challenge.
