Apr 22
End of an Era for NYC Artists & Designers: Pearl Paint Closes
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And now for a bit of local news. Pearl Paint, NYC’s famed art supply superstore and one of the original supply sources on Core77 version 1.0, has closed after more than 80 years in business.
This signifies the demise, for industrial design students at Pratt Institute in particular, of Canal Street as a destination for supplies; in the ’90s we’d travel to Industrial Plastics on Canal & Greene, Space Surplus Metals around the corner on Church, and cap it off with a trip to Pearl for everything the prior two stores didn’t have. Now all three outfits are gone.
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