Shop Talk with And George | Fetch Magazine by Taigan

Created and curated by mother daughter team Jan Roden and Christy Ford, And George is a shop based out of Charlottesville, Virginia. With extensive experience in the design world, the duo hand-select the furniture and decorative objects they feature. We talked to Jan about antiques, running a family business, and historic Charlottesville homes. Click through to see the interview.

Can you tell us how And George?came to be??

I have been a Designer?for over 30 years. Christy spent many years in New York as a photographer for shelter magazines where she got into the best houses in the country. Basically, our worlds collided!? When she and her husband decided they were more normal that they thought they were?as in ?lets move back to Virginia to start a family??I tried to bribe her into opening a store together. It?s something we had always talked about, but never thought of as more than a pipe dream.?They landed in Charlottesville, so we partnered up and opened And George. The next thing I knew, I was living in Charlottesville too, a block and a half away from Christy. I still don?t believe it!

Can you tell us a bit more about your partnership with your daughter? In what way do you balance each other out or how does the dynamic further your brand?

Eleven years have flown by!?Originally we used to joke about us each having our own room to put our purchases in as we shopped.?We were so wrong!? We totally mix it up. We laugh about things the other has bought that we think, ?no one will ever buy that,??but we have customers from all eras and?tastes.

And George carries such a wide selection?from antiques to accessories to purses?how do you curate such a beautiful collection??

We buy what we love?and?we both have varied and interesting taste that run deep. We both love nature, we mix moss from the floor of the woods into our displays, right in an antique silver compote. Now Christy?s six year old daughter, Ruby, has joined the mix. She has decided that she will ?make things to sell in the store?.? Sprinkled into the already wide selection of merchandise are Ruby?s creations, with her own price tags (6 cents is a favorite price of hers). Now that we can boast that three generations are gathering you never know what will be next.

How does one make use of traditional antiques?

The juxtaposition of antiques mixed with modern surroundings is wonderful. Antiques in Period Homes are fun. Our area offers many historic properties and I have enjoyed working on?several. It is a real challenge to inject a twenty first century family into an 18th century home and not lose the integrity of the home. In gathering for And George?we try to find antique and?vintage pieces that can be repurposed for today?s life style, like lamps made of architectural fragments.

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