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Anne

Anne Bocci Boutique in SW Portland Oregon's Multnomah Village. http://www.annebocciboutique.com http

About Me

Photo by Elisa Lazo de Valdez. Paper mask sculpture by Phillip Valdez.
NEW Suzabelle Collection in the boutique for Fall!

Anne Bocci Boutique & Art Gallery
Have a tiny boutique filled with treasures.
Located in SW Portland Oregon, right in the heart of Multnomah Village.
Why not link over to my blog.
My newest blog
You won't find these things at the mall...Just in from my Seattle designer, Suzabelle.
Photo Belt buckles and jewelry by Portland artist, Misha Ashton.
Nope, not at the mall. Designer fleece pullover by IPSEITY.

Above: Portland's own Ipseity designed pullover. $172.
So unique...because it's designed right here in Portland.
Nope, you won't see this at the mall.
Keri, I love this one!
Handcrafted jewelry and fine leather bags. Wood vessels by Dr. Carroll Simpson.
Above: Handmade by Portland apparel designer, Seth Aaron Henderson. Photographer: Randy Boverman.
Yay! What a surprise...
This makes it all kind of worth it.
Much thanks, Portland Picks.
Yay! The Voters Got It Right! (And to think, I didn't even vote...where was I that week?)
Willamette Week just named Multnomah Village as "Best Place to Shop 2008 in SW Portland."
BEST PLACE TO SHOP 2008 in SW PORTLAND by Willamette Week
Multnomah Village is so cute it’s criminal. The stretch of Capitol Highway lined with coffee shops, cafes and quirky stores looks like it’s been plucked from a small European town and planted in Southwest Portland. Spending an afternoon perusing Multnomah’s shops, then stopping for a pint at one of the neighborhood restaurants is perfect for first dates, families and everyone in between.
Plus Multnomah Village rated as BEST PLACE TO PEOPLE WATCH to in SW Portland. Whoo-hoo.

Suzabelle Sophie Dress.

Anne Bocci design necklaces. Alisa Huntley painting, $1100
I've come to know all the work, devotion, and passion involved with creating.
So now it's a dream of mine to be able to support and celebrate fine artists and designers in my own space,
Anne Bocci Boutique & Gallery, in SW Portland, Oregon.
Below: Handmade purses and leather bags. email: [email protected]
What makes this world of ours interesting? Artists and designers.
Left: Sterling Silver Earrings by Carolyn Walker, Portland metal artist.
These Fleur earrings are part of her "Kate's Daughter" collection.
$95 & $135 for more information, email: [email protected]
The boutique/gallery is in the heart of Portland's lovely Multnomah Village, close to the super cool,
independent bookstore called Annie Bloom's Books, and by the always popular O'Connor's restaurant.
Please stop by and check out all the artists I represent.
Suzabelle, Seattle apparel designer.
New handbags.
Woo hoo. Multnomah Village and my tiny boutique receive some good press.
The front window of my boutique got a full two-page spread in the issue. Cool.
Lauren is modeling the wool coat, designed by Suzabelle. See my blog "the coat" for more photographs.
My jewelry designs are below:
You can find my jewelry online here and in galleries in Hawaii and Portland, Oregon.
My new line of leather handbags is available online and in the Portland "Anne Bocci" boutique.
Visiting Hawaii? Look for my jewelry in the Black Pearl Kauai Gallery in Poipu, Kauai at 1-800-952-1241 and at Sand People in Poipu, Kauai. You'll also find my jewelry in my boutique & gallery in Multnomah Village, Portland, Oregon.
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My Interests


Yay! Thank you Portland Picks for the "Best of Portland Picks" title.
If you want, why not mosy on over to my blog. Featured artists for October/November 2008 are Phillip Valdez, masks paper sculptor, and Elisa Lazo de Valdez, photographer.

My newest blog

Anne Bocci Boutique & Art Gallery

Anne Bocci Boutique is packed with one-of-a-kind or small-run clothing lines from local designers and others not so small.

In a tiny neighborhood of SW Portland Oregon, you'll find a quaint narrow street, original brick storefronts, independent coffee shops and mom and pop businesses. And if you blink you might miss it. But I hope not. It's a tiny boutique packed floor to ceiling with indie apparel, art, designer clothes, different jewelry, and oddities. That's "anne bocci boutique & gallery" right in the heart of Multnomah Village. Welcome to where I love to spend my time.

Please click the links below:
Anne Bocci Boutique & Art Gallery

Latest press about the boutique & gallery

Seth is a wonderful designer in my boutique...click here to learn more!

I'm howling aloud reading Marty Wombacher's new book.
"The Boy Who Would Be A Fire Truck"

My passion is designing and creating wearable art jewelry, but my biggest inspirations are other artists, writers, my family & friends, and those who are true to their craft and are simply following their dreams. If I can help connect artists to other artists, or designers and artists to customers, then I am happy.
Many of my clothing and accessory designers hand make their wares with meticulous attention to detail without mass production.

Ipseity Spice dress by Keri Roberts, Portland designer..

Amai Unmei dress by Allison Covington, Portland designer.

Click on the press links below:
Ultra press, woo-hoo

Live PDX ink

Portland Picks...

Best of 2007...yay!

Nowadays, everyone and his dog make jewlery...
I'm now looking for jewlery designers that solder, work and use fire to melt or form metal into submission.
Beaders, please not apply. Also looking for high-end clothing designers.
Celebrating unique fine jewelry designers, clothing designers, fine artists and more.
Oh, and normal people bore me. Ha. Ha.

New "Rockstar" leather bracelets. Handmade of genuine patent leather and Swarovski crystals and soft Italian leather by Gordon Dent, a fine leather craftsman in Portland, Oregon.

Take your life into your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong

Jean-Noel Chaleat, aka Johnny Xmas. Photo: Francoise Hardy.

Jean-Noel Chaleat, aka Johnny Xmas. Photo: Stéphane de Bourgies
Meet my first friend...aaah, a genius composer and kind man.
I a d o r e the spirit, mind, soul, and music of my dear friend, Jean-noel Chaleat, aka Johnny Xmas. Listen to his music, and you too will understand what I mean. If you like the music of Francoise Hardy or Serge Gainsbourg or Alain Chamfort, then listen and melt with me. Not only is he the wonderful composer of their music, but he's such a dear kind soul, so that makes his music even that much more beautiful. To listen, just click on my first friend.

I'd like to meet:


Willy, Connie and me.

And I have a new blog.

My newest blog

Music:

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Thanks to my dear friend, Jean-Noel Chaleat, aka. Johnny Xmas, Francoise Hardy signed her newest CD for me at their intimate dinner the other night in Paris. Plus, it was a surprise when he passed his cell phone around the dinner table and I was able to talk with Francoise, direct from Paris to Portland.

If you love her music, you may want her new CD, "Parentheses."

Francoise Hardy. Many of her songs are composed by the incomparable Jean-noel Chaleat, aka Johnny Xmas.

Favorite musicians are too many to name: My friend, Jean-noel Chaleat, aka Johnny Xmas; Francoise Hardy; Kate Bush; Keren Ann; Regina Spektor; Damien Rice; Marc Cohn; Bruce Cockburn; David Byrne; John Hiatt; Billie Holiday; Patsy Cline; Rickie Lee Jones; Toni Childs; Dot Allison; Lucinda Williams; Beth Hart; Bic Runga; Natalie Merchant; Beth Orton; PJ Harvey; Tom Waits; Shawn Mullins; Lou Reed; Cat Stevens; Aaron Neville; Deep Forest; Sinatra; Tony Bennett; Edith Piaf; Ella Fitzgerald; k.d. lang; Lyle Lovett; Elvis Costello; Kelly Joe Phelps; Five Blind Boys of Alabama; Dar Williams; Peter Gabriel; Ry Cooder; Ben Harper; Jack Johnson; Israel Kamakawiwo'ole; Cyril Pahinui; Utada Hikaru; Yoshika; Japanese Pop Music; French Lounge Music; Serge Gainsbourg; Henryk Gorecki; Ottmar Leibert; Ennio Morricone; Astor Piazzolla, Syd Barrett, Lindsay Buckingham, David Lindley...And locally, we are surrounded by so many fabulous songwriters, like Rachel Taylor Brown. Her lyrics and voice are compelling.

P.S. I'm renaming MySpace to MySpaceOut because it's a time-sponge.

Movies:

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Prestige, The World's Fastest Indian, The Pursuit of Happyness, Cinema Paradiso, Il Postino, Casino, From Here To Eternity, Mister Roberts, Thank you for Smoking, Second Hand Lion, Little Miss Sunshine, Capote, History of Violence, Leaving Las Vegas, Sideways, Constant Gardener, Hi Fidelity, Breakfast at Tiffanys, The Misfits, The Piano, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Body Heat, Riding Giants, Step into Liquid, The Endless Summer, American Beauty, Blue Velvet, and ANY movie with William H. Macy or Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Television:



The Daily Show, David Letterman, Anthony Bourdain's No Reseravations, The Office, Project Runway, and 30 Rock.

Books:


Kitchen Confidential, Nasty Bits, PostSecret, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell; La vie sexuelle de Catherine M. by Catherine Millet; James Ellroy; Blink by Malcolm Gladwell; Freakanomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner; The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surwiecki; the Prince by Machiavelli; anything by Ann Rule.
Okay, now for the INK:
August 2007 PORTLAND MONTHLY
DERRING-DO DESIGNERS
Why do major-league fashion magazines such as Elle, W and Vogue continue to take notice of Portland's burgeoning apparel and accessories scene? The answer is a clear as a Lucite cuff bracelet: because we're home to an increasingly strong and growing cadre of sassy, cutting-edge designers. Leading the way...
JEWELRY
Anne Bocci Artisan Boutique & Gallery
After seven years spent honing her jewelry-making skills on Oahu, designer Anne Bocci has a style firmly rooted in island flair. Using natural materials from Tahitian pearls to moonstones, Bocci captures the luminescent glow of, say, a coral reef or an ocean wave in a single earring or necklace. Luckily for us, Bocci returned to her native Portland one and a half years ago, and now sells her Pacific-inspired wares (along with the work of other independent designers) at her boutique in Multnomah Village.
PUBLICITY:
PRESS:
May 25, 2007 from PORTLAND PICKS:
Having a Ball
We’re fond of Multnomah Village. Its narrow streets and small-town feel remind us of the good things in life. And now there’s one more good thing to add to the area, so good that we classify it as fabulous: Anne Bocci. Anne’s known round town for her jewelry designs, and now she’s finally set up shop in SW Portland to showcase some of the best indie designers around.
The new boutique is positively brimming with coolness, full of truly one-of-a-kind exquisite items like Anne’s Tahitian pearl earrings, Dolce purses from Seattle, adorable dresses by independent designer Suzabelle, hand-screened t-shirts of the perfect softness, bags made from board games and recycled fabric, snappy trenchcoats in time for the June rains—all this stuff you’re going to want, and you’re going to want it now.
Stop by Friday, June 1, starting at 6 pm for First Friday, showcasing the works of photographer Elisa Lazo de Valdez. And whew! It’s a good thing that Anne gets new stuff in every day—we don’t have to wait long to get our fix.
And, PORTLAND PICKS, Portland's premier style magazine published this, too.
Chick Picks:
Pretty is as Pretty Does
And pretty girls wear pretty, wearable art jewelry by Anne Bocci. Her otherwordly designs use decadent and fabulous natural materials like South Sea and Tahitian pearls, and semi-precious stones like citrine, chalcedony and opal.

We found her when we were looking for fabulous wedding jewelry (for a friend...don't get excited!) and discovered that her work is perfect for all kinds of special occasions. Even if it's just getting up and going to work! Treat yourself to something you'll have for a lifetime.
Contact Anne for a private showing...because you're worth it.

Heroes:

MICHAEL HEATON. Artists, writers, designers...and those who are witty. Oh, and Burt Bacharach.

Hugs for my father, my ultimate hero.

This was a fun day of sun and sailing.
My Ralph Lauren ad moment.

With my dear childhood friend, Marshal.

See my other site: Anne Bocci Boutique & Art Gallery

My Blog

Costume time

Just messing around on eBay and scored my Halloween costume.Whoo-hoo. Hope it arrives in time. Just need a magic wand and a tiara. Hmmm, maybe a bull.But will I have the energy to party? Must raid Jac...
Posted by Anne on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:04:00 PST

Blog readers who like fashion

A woman in New York emailed me. She said she had been in a little boutique in Brooklyn, and had tried on the Suzabelle red Ballard coat and ivory Phaedra dress. She fell in love with the pieces there ...
Posted by Anne on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:42:00 PST

Party tomorrow for these remarkable artists

Photo: Elisa Lazo de ValdezYou're invited this Friday. It's a special party celebrating the photography of Elisa Lazo de Valdez and the paper mask sculpture of Phillip Valdez. The husband and wife ...
Posted by Anne on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:00:00 PST

Party this Friday!

The party this Friday It's going to be fun!xo anne...
Posted by Anne on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:52:00 PST

So my local designer called me today.

The flapper inspired dress/tunic with satin piping seen on the mannequin is now $27.50, regularly $110. Plus all of Seth's one-of-a-kind dresses, coats, and gowns are 75% off as well.So my local coutu...
Posted by Anne on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:08:00 PST

Artist defies recession

.. I just got in my new Fall collection of wool and tweed coats from my Seattle designer, Suzabelle. They are classic, cozy, and reminiscent of Hollywood glamour from long ag...
Posted by Anne on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:43:00 PST

You're Invited First Friday Party: Photography: Elisa Lazo de Valdez. Masks by Phillip Valdez.

You're invited to stop by to see the photography of Elisa Lazo de Valdez and masks by paper sculptor Phillip Valdez. October 3, 2008 Meet the Artists, Reception Party5:30 to 9:00 PMAnne Bocci Boutiqu...
Posted by Anne on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:12:00 PST

Suzabelle Collection & Steel sculptures by Todd Lamberton

This blog stems from almost a dare from my dear friend, Misha.She's my savior when it comes to my bookkeeping. Today, she was joking with me about how in the world I was going to keep up and continue ...
Posted by Anne on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:12:00 PST

Misha Ashton belt buckles and jewelry

So on Saturday, right after the Multnomah Days Parade, this tall, lovely woman walks into my boutique. As we are talking, I quickly learn she's a photographer and Portland artist named Misha Ashton. ...
Posted by Anne on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:22:00 PST

Andy Warhol design bags

For the latest news, why not mosy on over to my new blog.My newest blog Okay, I'm seriously going crazy for these Andy Warhol design bags by LOOP NYC. Each comes with an authenticity certificate, and ...
Posted by Anne on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:17:00 PST