Local’s Guide to the Pike Place Market: Found Among the Merchants

Perennial Tearoom
Slayed by cuteness. We are powerless against the wiles of the three-piece, owl-faced tea set from Japanese company Kotobuki. $49

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I agree with the above comment from Shari. I clicked the link for this story expecting to read about the great local artists who make things by hand. To me, the true Pike Place Market is the local farmers and the craftspeople who put their heart and soul into making things that you can't buy anywhere else.
Posted by Starlight521 about 1 year Ago
As an artist selling my work at Pike Place Market since 2006 (as well as a subscriber to your magazine) I am deeply dissapointed as your editors missed the artist/craft community completely. There are over 250 local artists and craftsman who participate in the market daystall program. My company makes handmade ceramic art; all handmade and one of a kind. However, you choose to feature molded machine made ceramics from Japan. You have failed to see the heart of Pike Place by not including the real art and artists who sustain the interest of of travelers throughout the country and world. Perhaps next time a feature of the hardest working local artists I know might be an idea for your next overview of Seattle points of interest. How could you have missed this is beyond me.
Posted by Shari/From The Heart Pottery about 1 year Ago

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Local’s Guide to the Pike Place Market: Found Among the Merchants

One trip, 18 treasures: a sampling of the strange and wonderful objects for sale at the market every day.