Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice and Observation Faire course-setting experiences at the Exploratorium

course-setting experiences at the Exploratorium

they guide the viewer's eye

it matters less whether your interior is perfectly appointed and more if it’s authentically personal

and risk being boring in the everyday world so that you have the space to be wild and daring in your imagination and your work

Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice and Observation Faire course-setting experiences at the ExploratoriumA love letter to the small shop, and shop owners everywhere, by beloved bookseller Peter Miller. There is a tradition of shopkeeping, a tradition of codes, etiquette, and customs. For the most part, it is an oral history, passed along, person to person. You learn to be a retailernot by going to college, but by going to work. You learn from people who have learned how to run a shop. [from the Introduction] For more than four decades, Peter Miller has