B. Vintage, run by Linda Buckley and Cristina Buckley, a Springs mother-daughter team, is set to open tomorrow at 79 Main Street in East Hampton. It is the first business in the Anchor Society’s Winter Shops program, an off-season initiative that aims to fill otherwise empty storefronts.
In this case the business will step into the spot normally occupied by Alice + Olivia. B. Vintage will offer antiques, second-hand housewares, and “home-centric gifts,” according to the nonprofit Anchor Society. “A mix of lamps, small furniture, table linens, dishes, little tchotchkes, mirrors, and vintage posters — that sort of thing,” Cristina Buckley said in an announcement. She was a wallpaper and textile designer for Schumacher. Her mother worked in the cosmetics industry designing packaging for Revlon and Estee Lauder and in the 1990s ran an antiques shop called Finds on Newtown Lane.
Alice + Olivia is the first “master tenant” to collaborate with the Anchor Society on its off-season program, and its creative director and C.E.O., Stacey Bendet, said the company is excited about the opportunity “to support local businesses and the year-round community — both visitors and locals — in the Hamptons.” Taking part helps “local shops keep their doors open year round, allowing small-business owners to thrive.”
The Anchor Society said a second Winter Shop set to open later this season will feature “a collective of offerings from South Fork artisans and makers.”