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Using business as an artistic medium, consumers could once again find locally-made items.
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Could a business be a piece of functional artwork? Could it fix the problems of a broken commerce system, economy and environment? Would consumers embrace the concept of paying the true cost of an item? The answer turned out to be no.

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A collaboration with sound artist Scott Weiser, who composed the score and video projection
280 days, August 28, 2010 – May 7, 2011
Launch Party: August 28
5 Claude Lane Gallery, Union Square, San Francisco

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Rowena Ritchie • January 6, 2011
Be a Fashion Locavore
We’ve been scratching our heads wondering why the “slow fashion” movement is, well, slower to catch on than its widely embraced cousin, “slow food.”

A new shopping website aims to usher in a change of pace by offering the chance to buy your clothes just like you do your dinner – hand picked for quality, locally grown and providing that feel good buzz you get for supporting local business.

Recently launched in the Bay Area, EkoTable is giving style-loving shoppers an online resource for finding locally designed fashion and accessories. Sure to become a trend in communities throughout the U.S. concerned with boosting their local economy, EkoTable also provides customers an opportunity to meet up-and-coming designers and help designers to show their work to a wider audience.

EkoTable founder Erin Gallup answers a couple of questions and shows us how simple it is to keep both our waistlines and our closets lean in 2011. Because lets face it, all that fast fashion is just as ultimately unsatisfying as easy but greasy takeout, isn’t it? MORE...

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Alan Bamberger • August 28, 2010
EkoTable at 5 Claude: Introducing EkoTable.
I'm told that this is the debut of EkoTable, a website designed to match creative talent with producers all here in the Bay Region, the endgame being to take back our economy, to manufacture and shop locally, and in so doing, to stop sending our hard-earned dollars to foreign countries like China and Los Angeles (kidding... I actually love LA). As for the show, I'm partial to the furniture and wall works of John Whitmarsh. Coffee tables made from used pallet wood-- impressive.