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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Thanks again Coastal Living!
http://www.coastalliving.com/lifestyle/p
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Labor Day Lobster & Lobster
We spent an extended holiday weekend at Green Island and the four of us kids went to our favorite spot—Lenny's in Indian Neck CT for our final dinner for the summer. We shared all plates and naturally, one just snowballed into the other. After our feast we had a bit of trouble getting the little boat back to our island…
2 1lb lobsters
1 2lb lobster baked & stuffed
12 peel n eat jumbo shrimp
8 coconut shrimp
12 oysters
1 hot lobster roll with fries
1 bowl of Seafood Bisque
1 cup of NE Chowder
3 ears of corn
3 baked potatoes
2 packs of oyster crackers
4 pitchers of beer
2 slices of apple pie.
Delicious///
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Tour Report No.2 as written by "Duffy"
Tuesday, June 8th
Our day on the Cape: Chatham should’ve been a big softball for us but a crotchety gate-keeper in one store and the lack of an owner/manager in another left us with just business cards for follow-ups. Oh well, all part of the game. Luckily for Nauti & Co, we have designer/model Nicco in our corner so P’Town was a slam dunk. We have been carrying our samples in a ladies Sea Bags tote that I bought for Lindsay so between the two of us walking around P’Town, my t-shirt with “Nauti” in large letters on the back, the bag and Nicco’s greek fire, we just had to put our heads down and suck it up (no pun intended). So, while I was sashaying myself about town, I was told that I committed a "fashion fopa", as my bag did not meet my shoes. Or in my case, my rainbow flip-flops. Needless to say the comment did not break my stride. It comes as no surprise that we found several great stores that would be perfect for Nauti & Co in any other town when we stumbled upon Drinx, a “Bad Ass Barware” store. The sales pitch went something like this: “Hi, I’m Nicco and I make badass barware”. Easiest sale of the trip. They loved the stuff and the store couldn’t have been any more perfect. Thanks to Sarah, the manager, and we hope to hear from you soon.
Monday, June 7th
From Martha’s Vineyard to Nantucket, life doesn’t suck. We literally ran to make the fast-ferry out of Hyannis to Nantucket which was a fun ride in 5 foot chop. We got air several times. That sucker moves.
In keeping with the theme of great hosts, we stayed with a college buddy of mine, Jenne Atherton-Verney and her husband Eric, who live on Nantucket year-round. Jenne runs a gardening business, Grey Lady Gardens, and seemingly knows everyone on the island as she has lived here since high school. The local knowledge of stores, and in some cases their owners, makes our job incredibly easier. As we have seen so far in our trip, the Nauti & Co products have been very well received once we can get past the initial salesman introduction. Luckily for us, Jenne’s friend from hs on Island runs two stores perfectly located on Main St: Anderson’s and The Hub. After a day of phone tag, we were able to meet with Tess right before we left which was well worth the wait. She was extremely insightful providing us with great advice from the POV of the retailer. We’re going to stay on her for an order in the next few weeks so hopefully you will be able to find Nauti & Co on Main St Nantucket by July. Thanks Tess for your time. Jenne: great to see you and thanks so much for the hospitality; Eric: no more inciting Greta during Pawn Stars, I promise & Greta: Willy and you can hopefully get your hump on sometime in the fall.
Saturday, June 5th
After some great hospitality in Boston, we hopped a ferry to Martha’s Vineyard for our first time. We were fortunate enough to meet Lauren Courtney in the store she runs, Blue Buoy, one of six her family owns in Edgartown. Choosing stores to approach has become sort of an art due to the exclusivity factor stores demand when dealing with a smaller, unique product line. As such, we hit the nail on the head with Blue Buoy and Lauren. She was super friendly and enthusiastic about Nauti & Co and her store is exactly where we want to be: great products, uncluttered and in a central location. We are thrilled to say that Nauti & Co. can be found at Blue Bouy in Edgartown by the 4th of July.
Our day on the Cape: Chatham should’ve been a big softball for us but a crotchety gate-keeper in one store and the lack of an owner/manager in another left us with just business cards for follow-ups. Oh well, all part of the game. Luckily for Nauti & Co, we have designer/model Nicco in our corner so P’Town was a slam dunk. We have been carrying our samples in a ladies Sea Bags tote that I bought for Lindsay so between the two of us walking around P’Town, my t-shirt with “Nauti” in large letters on the back, the bag and Nicco’s greek fire, we just had to put our heads down and suck it up (no pun intended). So, while I was sashaying myself about town, I was told that I committed a "fashion fopa", as my bag did not meet my shoes. Or in my case, my rainbow flip-flops. Needless to say the comment did not break my stride. It comes as no surprise that we found several great stores that would be perfect for Nauti & Co in any other town when we stumbled upon Drinx, a “Bad Ass Barware” store. The sales pitch went something like this: “Hi, I’m Nicco and I make badass barware”. Easiest sale of the trip. They loved the stuff and the store couldn’t have been any more perfect. Thanks to Sarah, the manager, and we hope to hear from you soon.
Monday, June 7th
From Martha’s Vineyard to Nantucket, life doesn’t suck. We literally ran to make the fast-ferry out of Hyannis to Nantucket which was a fun ride in 5 foot chop. We got air several times. That sucker moves.
In keeping with the theme of great hosts, we stayed with a college buddy of mine, Jenne Atherton-Verney and her husband Eric, who live on Nantucket year-round. Jenne runs a gardening business, Grey Lady Gardens, and seemingly knows everyone on the island as she has lived here since high school. The local knowledge of stores, and in some cases their owners, makes our job incredibly easier. As we have seen so far in our trip, the Nauti & Co products have been very well received once we can get past the initial salesman introduction. Luckily for us, Jenne’s friend from hs on Island runs two stores perfectly located on Main St: Anderson’s and The Hub. After a day of phone tag, we were able to meet with Tess right before we left which was well worth the wait. She was extremely insightful providing us with great advice from the POV of the retailer. We’re going to stay on her for an order in the next few weeks so hopefully you will be able to find Nauti & Co on Main St Nantucket by July. Thanks Tess for your time. Jenne: great to see you and thanks so much for the hospitality; Eric: no more inciting Greta during Pawn Stars, I promise & Greta: Willy and you can hopefully get your hump on sometime in the fall.
Saturday, June 5th
After some great hospitality in Boston, we hopped a ferry to Martha’s Vineyard for our first time. We were fortunate enough to meet Lauren Courtney in the store she runs, Blue Buoy, one of six her family owns in Edgartown. Choosing stores to approach has become sort of an art due to the exclusivity factor stores demand when dealing with a smaller, unique product line. As such, we hit the nail on the head with Blue Buoy and Lauren. She was super friendly and enthusiastic about Nauti & Co and her store is exactly where we want to be: great products, uncluttered and in a central location. We are thrilled to say that Nauti & Co. can be found at Blue Bouy in Edgartown by the 4th of July.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Tour Report No.1 as written by "Duffy"
Friday, June 4th
What is it about us and starting the day with a super nice woman who is totally into our line and makes a great buy??? This time it was Haley at Tintypes, a great home accessories store/gallery in Bath, ME. Haley owns the store with her three sisters who all live in different parts of the country but meet up in Maine in the summer to run the store. Tintypes was recommended to us by Beth from Sea Bags which if you haven’t heard of yet, you will very soon. They are a nimble workshop out of Maine that uses salvaged sails to make various types of bags. Very cool stuff and they are blowing up. Nicco incidentally has been talking to them well before this trip was conceived about a possible collaboration on a line. Stay tuned…As for the rest of the day, we stopped in Freeport to check out the Sea Bags store there and talk to Beth’s sister Rhonda who runs it—great shop!
- Old Orchard Beach appears to be the Seaside Heights of Maine and remember that everything is relative and that they don’t have guidos in Maine.
-Kennebunkport was a very cool town and we found a perfect store on another one of Beth’s recs. Daytrip Society is run by a couple from Maine who lived in NYC for a while and moved back to open the store so it has a very cool blend of styles. Unfortunately the owners were not in but we showed our wares to the manager and the girl at the counter. They also checked out the website while we were shopping which they were very impressed by and which they forwarded to the owner who was also a fan. Turns out I got a Patagucci bag for the upcoming trip to Spain (and cause Willy chewed through my current bag) and Nicco bought a gift for his Mom’s b-day. We also stopped by a classic posh barbershop/cigar lounge/mancave, Dock Square Barber Shop. Nicco chatted with Ed, one of the barbers, and his immediate interest in the sterling silver Cocktail Anchors was passed onto the owner who expectantly was out working on his boat. You won this round Daytrip Society, but we’ll be back.
Thursday, June 3rd
Once against we got off to a hot start. Sold mermaids and anchors to Window Panes, a nice home accessories store in Bar Harbor. The owner, Julie, couldn’t have been nicer to us. We chatted about both businesses for way too long (we have a schedule to keep), as well as the towns and stores in particular we should be sure to hit. Unfortunately the rest of the day didn’t follow suit. We have the strange habit of finding the best stores first thing in the morning which is great to kick off a day of selling but we need to keep that momentum going. We moved on to Camden, ME which is a cool little harbor town with potential but we weren’t able to close any deals. Once again people really liked the stuff but it was either too late in the season for them to buy or in the case of Star Bird, the wife (buyer) was not in and wouldn’t be back for a week. We’ll follow up.
Wednesday, June 2nd
After a relaxing Memorial Day in Westhampton Beach and Branford Conn. for Nicco, we banged out 8 frames to fill our orders from Tauk and Bev Cardo. Like most things of this nature, it took waaay longer than I planned mostly due to the fact that I never took woodshop class. We had hoped to leave early this morning for Maine, ended up leaving at 4pm and got in to Bar Harbor at 1am. Good news is that the frames turned out amazing considering that I picked up a router (don’t ask) for the first time on Tuesday. Needless to say the orders were fulfilled & out the door. Several hours later—ahhhhh, the flea-bag motel bed is amazing after 8 hours of working on frames and 9 hours of driving.
Sunday, May 30th
We were suggested to check out a store on Montauk Highway in Quogue called Bev Cardo. A friend of my gf’s mom works there so she called over and set up the meeting for first thing Sunday morning. Hungover, my gf got me up saying how her mom set up the appt and they were expecting us, etc so we headed over. We both felt weird about Lindsay listening to my sales pitch so she wanted to wait in the car which I thought that was odd so we settled on her moving into another room of the store to shop which as it turns out wasn’t a problem. I think we all would wish that our first solo sales experience could go this well. Both Bev and her daughter loved what we had to offer (thankfully) and we had a great conversation on Nauti & Co both about how it started and where it’s headed. Needless to say, another great store you can find Nauti & Co. in this season. When Bev an I finished the order of business, Lindsay tried to get me to check out a framed New Yorker cover they had upstairs which “would have gone perfect” in our Boken apt, but the thrill of the sale was quickly replaced by the remembrance of the hangover. We left soon thereafter. She’ll be back.
Friday May 28th
Finally got to meet with Judy, the buyer from Hildreth’s which is a small chain of nice home accessories stores in Southampton and East Hampton. We decided that she was going to make or break the LI leg of our trip because that is definitely a store we would want to be in. We stopped in Thursday and overheard the woman behind the counter saying how cute Nicco was (but unfortunately too young for her) so maybe that’s a good sign. Anyway, we were able to show Judy our stuff and she really liked it, especially the packaging, presentation and brand. Just as she told me over the phone, however, this is late in the buying season for many stores especially the bigger ones who carefully stick to a budget. She said she will look into the budget and let us know so we’ll have to follow up with her next week.
So we were out last night and talking to a couple of guys about what we were up to and they noticed the t-shirt Nicco was sporting. Turns out one of the guys, Tim, owns the surf store on Main Street in Westhamnpton Beach, Jetties. So we showed up today, showed him our line and he bought Barmaid’s and want to place a t-shirt order. Great story: The guy who works at Jetties bought one of the Barmaids we left there and gave it to his Dad for an early birthday gift. Apparently his grandfather had a boat called “The Mermaid” and this opener brought back some memories for the family. Long story, short Heineken’s were opened and a father/son beer was shared along with a nice, family moment. You can’t beat that stuff.
Thursday, May 27th
After starting our trip 1 for 1, we quickly found that not every town has a store perfectly geared to the Nauti & Co line:
- East Hampton – cruised through but didn’t even stop, all Manhattan high-end chains, basically 5th ave.;
-Amagansett: - nice town, no real fit;
-Sag Harbor - the home accessories stores were all too bright white and formal for us;
-Wainscott - on a tip we checked out Rumrunners which while a bit high-end could definitely be a fit for us, got our first smug, “we’ll take a look” blow-off reminding me why I never went into sales before.
Wednesday, May 26th
First stop on our three week Nauti & Co Northeast sales trip took us to the end of the south fork of Long Island to Montauk. The first store we sought out was Tauk which I found online. Tauk is run by two young women and focuses on vintage and contemporary home items, jewelry and fashion all with a quality beach lifestyle theme. Much to our disappointment, the store was closed (it was still pre-Memorial Day after all and very quiet in town). Not the way you want to start a much hyped (at least between us) sales adventure up and down the eastern seaboard. Feeling mildly embarrassed as the organizer of the trip that I hadn’t planned this out ahead I luckily remembered being surprised that the owners had their cell phones listed on their website (this is how chill the place is) and we called Staci who mentioned that she received our product info (see, I tried a little), liked our stuff (nice) and would be at the store in 30 minutes if we could wait around (saa-weet). So we meet up with Staci after a few minutes of exploring the town and she couldn’t have been any cooler. She initially discussed carrying the Nauti & Co line under consignment it being late in their buying season and all but after seeing our stuff, she decided to go ahead and give us our first sale (at least of Nauti 2.0). Pretty great, 1 for 1. Feeling good about ourselves, we set out to conquer the Hamptons. Be sure to get out to Montauk cause you have to check out “The End” and when you’re there stop in to Tauk, you won’t be disappointed.
What is it about us and starting the day with a super nice woman who is totally into our line and makes a great buy??? This time it was Haley at Tintypes, a great home accessories store/gallery in Bath, ME. Haley owns the store with her three sisters who all live in different parts of the country but meet up in Maine in the summer to run the store. Tintypes was recommended to us by Beth from Sea Bags which if you haven’t heard of yet, you will very soon. They are a nimble workshop out of Maine that uses salvaged sails to make various types of bags. Very cool stuff and they are blowing up. Nicco incidentally has been talking to them well before this trip was conceived about a possible collaboration on a line. Stay tuned…As for the rest of the day, we stopped in Freeport to check out the Sea Bags store there and talk to Beth’s sister Rhonda who runs it—great shop!
- Old Orchard Beach appears to be the Seaside Heights of Maine and remember that everything is relative and that they don’t have guidos in Maine.
-Kennebunkport was a very cool town and we found a perfect store on another one of Beth’s recs. Daytrip Society is run by a couple from Maine who lived in NYC for a while and moved back to open the store so it has a very cool blend of styles. Unfortunately the owners were not in but we showed our wares to the manager and the girl at the counter. They also checked out the website while we were shopping which they were very impressed by and which they forwarded to the owner who was also a fan. Turns out I got a Patagucci bag for the upcoming trip to Spain (and cause Willy chewed through my current bag) and Nicco bought a gift for his Mom’s b-day. We also stopped by a classic posh barbershop/cigar lounge/mancave, Dock Square Barber Shop. Nicco chatted with Ed, one of the barbers, and his immediate interest in the sterling silver Cocktail Anchors was passed onto the owner who expectantly was out working on his boat. You won this round Daytrip Society, but we’ll be back.
Thursday, June 3rd
Once against we got off to a hot start. Sold mermaids and anchors to Window Panes, a nice home accessories store in Bar Harbor. The owner, Julie, couldn’t have been nicer to us. We chatted about both businesses for way too long (we have a schedule to keep), as well as the towns and stores in particular we should be sure to hit. Unfortunately the rest of the day didn’t follow suit. We have the strange habit of finding the best stores first thing in the morning which is great to kick off a day of selling but we need to keep that momentum going. We moved on to Camden, ME which is a cool little harbor town with potential but we weren’t able to close any deals. Once again people really liked the stuff but it was either too late in the season for them to buy or in the case of Star Bird, the wife (buyer) was not in and wouldn’t be back for a week. We’ll follow up.
Wednesday, June 2nd
After a relaxing Memorial Day in Westhampton Beach and Branford Conn. for Nicco, we banged out 8 frames to fill our orders from Tauk and Bev Cardo. Like most things of this nature, it took waaay longer than I planned mostly due to the fact that I never took woodshop class. We had hoped to leave early this morning for Maine, ended up leaving at 4pm and got in to Bar Harbor at 1am. Good news is that the frames turned out amazing considering that I picked up a router (don’t ask) for the first time on Tuesday. Needless to say the orders were fulfilled & out the door. Several hours later—ahhhhh, the flea-bag motel bed is amazing after 8 hours of working on frames and 9 hours of driving.
Sunday, May 30th
We were suggested to check out a store on Montauk Highway in Quogue called Bev Cardo. A friend of my gf’s mom works there so she called over and set up the meeting for first thing Sunday morning. Hungover, my gf got me up saying how her mom set up the appt and they were expecting us, etc so we headed over. We both felt weird about Lindsay listening to my sales pitch so she wanted to wait in the car which I thought that was odd so we settled on her moving into another room of the store to shop which as it turns out wasn’t a problem. I think we all would wish that our first solo sales experience could go this well. Both Bev and her daughter loved what we had to offer (thankfully) and we had a great conversation on Nauti & Co both about how it started and where it’s headed. Needless to say, another great store you can find Nauti & Co. in this season. When Bev an I finished the order of business, Lindsay tried to get me to check out a framed New Yorker cover they had upstairs which “would have gone perfect” in our Boken apt, but the thrill of the sale was quickly replaced by the remembrance of the hangover. We left soon thereafter. She’ll be back.
Friday May 28th
Finally got to meet with Judy, the buyer from Hildreth’s which is a small chain of nice home accessories stores in Southampton and East Hampton. We decided that she was going to make or break the LI leg of our trip because that is definitely a store we would want to be in. We stopped in Thursday and overheard the woman behind the counter saying how cute Nicco was (but unfortunately too young for her) so maybe that’s a good sign. Anyway, we were able to show Judy our stuff and she really liked it, especially the packaging, presentation and brand. Just as she told me over the phone, however, this is late in the buying season for many stores especially the bigger ones who carefully stick to a budget. She said she will look into the budget and let us know so we’ll have to follow up with her next week.
So we were out last night and talking to a couple of guys about what we were up to and they noticed the t-shirt Nicco was sporting. Turns out one of the guys, Tim, owns the surf store on Main Street in Westhamnpton Beach, Jetties. So we showed up today, showed him our line and he bought Barmaid’s and want to place a t-shirt order. Great story: The guy who works at Jetties bought one of the Barmaids we left there and gave it to his Dad for an early birthday gift. Apparently his grandfather had a boat called “The Mermaid” and this opener brought back some memories for the family. Long story, short Heineken’s were opened and a father/son beer was shared along with a nice, family moment. You can’t beat that stuff.
Thursday, May 27th
After starting our trip 1 for 1, we quickly found that not every town has a store perfectly geared to the Nauti & Co line:
- East Hampton – cruised through but didn’t even stop, all Manhattan high-end chains, basically 5th ave.;
-Amagansett: - nice town, no real fit;
-Sag Harbor - the home accessories stores were all too bright white and formal for us;
-Wainscott - on a tip we checked out Rumrunners which while a bit high-end could definitely be a fit for us, got our first smug, “we’ll take a look” blow-off reminding me why I never went into sales before.
Wednesday, May 26th
First stop on our three week Nauti & Co Northeast sales trip took us to the end of the south fork of Long Island to Montauk. The first store we sought out was Tauk which I found online. Tauk is run by two young women and focuses on vintage and contemporary home items, jewelry and fashion all with a quality beach lifestyle theme. Much to our disappointment, the store was closed (it was still pre-Memorial Day after all and very quiet in town). Not the way you want to start a much hyped (at least between us) sales adventure up and down the eastern seaboard. Feeling mildly embarrassed as the organizer of the trip that I hadn’t planned this out ahead I luckily remembered being surprised that the owners had their cell phones listed on their website (this is how chill the place is) and we called Staci who mentioned that she received our product info (see, I tried a little), liked our stuff (nice) and would be at the store in 30 minutes if we could wait around (saa-weet). So we meet up with Staci after a few minutes of exploring the town and she couldn’t have been any cooler. She initially discussed carrying the Nauti & Co line under consignment it being late in their buying season and all but after seeing our stuff, she decided to go ahead and give us our first sale (at least of Nauti 2.0). Pretty great, 1 for 1. Feeling good about ourselves, we set out to conquer the Hamptons. Be sure to get out to Montauk cause you have to check out “The End” and when you’re there stop in to Tauk, you won’t be disappointed.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Best Made Co.
What, you thought axes were just for chopping wood? I recently stumbled on BEST MADE CO. a brilliant concept, product and design by a niche group of design savvy ax men. Individually handmade in here in NYC. Now I'm an artist where the Art supply comes second to Hardware stores and I'm extremely particular about my tools.I strive for them to be…
1. Lifetime guaranteed
2. Conducive to my functions
3. Well designed (structure & vision)
Best Made Co. exceeds expectations and inspires on all levels of design, quality & functionality. I can't wait to be ripping down a barn with one of these guys!
ps. thanks for not putting them in a blister package!
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
J.Crew welcomes The Martini Anchor...just in time for Christmas
Proud to announce that our Martini Anchor Set is now being sold at J.Crew's 484 Broadway Mens Shop in SOHO. These First Edition box sets have been handmade, numbered & specially packaged.
If you're in town stop by take a look & enjoy!
If you're in town stop by take a look & enjoy!
Friday, November 20, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Hors d'oeuvre with Nauti
Celebrating cocktail hour with the introduction of our Original Martini Anchor™ in Sterling Silver. Available under the Lifestyle section of the website—enjoy! 
Monday, August 17, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
upcoming show...
I'm happy to announce that Nauti & Co. will be displaying current and new works available at the West Hampton Beach Festival of the Arts on Long Island.Hope to see you there!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
the 4th...
absolutely one of the best fireworks showings (except my Godfathers), about 20+ different close-up displays off the Branford Connecticut coast. on the other side, far across Long Island Sound on the North Shore another 20-30 fireworks displayed scattered in the distance for about an hour long show...all topped by the epic fireworks showing at Tuxedo Park, NY lying on our backs on the pontoon boat with the boom in your chest...happy birthday America.
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