ALL WHAT WE CAN BARELY WAIT FOR

✹ OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY: A PORTRAIT SHOW
✹ SARAH GOTTESDIENER'S YOKO & MOON
✹ WINTER SCENT BY OLO
✹ APARTAMENTO, ISSUE #4
✹ MARTH BORTHWICK'S NOT IN FASHION
✹ CLEANING UP THE HALLWAY
✹ THE LAUNCH OF OUR FLAT FILE OF WORKS ON PAPER
✹ PURPLE ANTHOLOGY: ART PROSE FASHION MUSIC ARCHITECTURE SEX!!!

"then the bells are all changed into tears"

ok. so it was pretty necessary for nationale to start carrying this book. for what it means to my own growing up, its place in the french culture, and its philosophical message. i'm going to try bringing my special 50 francs bill in, it's dedicated to saint-exupéry, the author. so ask me to see it next time you're in. i guaranty it might be the best bank note you'll ever see.
in english (harcourt books, $10)
in french (harcourt books, $11)

casual friday

watch and help st vincent hospital get a huge donation from medline. here's to happy, healthy fridays.

where are they, really?

heads on and we shoot (harper collins, $39.99)
so neat and so nerdy, i love it! the making of where the wild things are makes me want to start crying all over again.

I WANT YOU, SO MUCH

the second issue of i want you magazine is here. it's free and exclusively at nationale in portland. come get your copy.
also available at fundacion proa in buenos aires, institute of contemporary arts in london, and the seattle art museum shop for you world travelers.

les krim

anne gordon

daniel swan

christopher schreck

nicole van beek

SARAH MEADOWS
TIME ENDS NOW
OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY THE 13TH, 6PM!

IN NEED OF NEW MOODS

the new bobby birdman on local label fryk beat.
180 gr LP with free MP3 download, $12 .
YES.

Sarah Meadows | Time Ends Now

Moving away from figurative work, Sarah Meadows has produced her first exhibition of landscape photographs to be shown at NATIONALE this November. Elaborating on her fascination with nature and the elastic properties of film images, she has dispensed entirely with narrative and human gesture and presents instead a concentrated study of wilderness encountered. These images are an investigation into the experience of their making: time elapsed, time slowed and smeared, and time condensed into the pictorial frame. Meadows works extensively with her negatives, scanning and cropping them repeatedly until they reveal the information they contain or until they simply fall apart. The resulting images are fragments that offer both sublime and mundane details, expanding and retracting in scale.

Out there are dark spots with no light, but also ridiculous frills and frothy foamy things like vines and flowers that only make sense in a formal way- as washes of color, buttons down the front of a sweater.

Born in Oregon in 1978, Sarah Meadows makes work around and about wild areas of the West Coast. She holds a Bachelors degree in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her work has been featured in Humble Arts Foundation’s Group Show 9, and on Wheat Toast, an international emerging artists organization. She shoots film all the time and frequently posts images to her blog, OWL. Her portfolio can be viewed at http://www.sarah-meadows.com.

Opening reception Friday November 13th, 6-8pm
On view November 11th - December 6th, 2009

who wants this?

trying to figure out if enough people want the new issue of apartamento before i order it from spain. it will probably be around $25. let me know... past issues are all sold out.

helmy, kathleen, and jacob rejoice!

your rose petal soaps are here at last. thanks for your patience.

daylight savings / new hours

in my efforts to figure out what would be the best hours to be open, i've decided to move everything backwards one hour since i rarely see customers past 5pm. send me feedback if you have any.
the new winter hours are now wed-sun, noon to 6pm!

Carson Ellis featured on my love for you!

Read more here.
To view Carson's original artwork currently available, visit our flickr page.
Price list available upon request. Emails will be answered in the order they are received. nationale.portland@gmail.com

GNAR TAPES are here at last!

delivered through the mail slot by erik gage, yours for $5.
read more here.

from marseille all the way to you, the soaps are on their way!

Dear NATIONALE,
Please accept our apologies for the delay. Our traditional Savon de Marseille is made in the last factory in Marseille which still uses the centuries-old artisanal process using a cauldron and then cutting/stamping each soap by hand. This factory is family-operated and has a very limited production capacity. The demand for this very special soap frequently exceeds the supply. In this way it is similar to the limited outputs of artisanal wine producers or estate olive oil mills, which are typically reserved in advance That is why we offer the Hard Milled Savon de Marseille which is also made in a cauldron in Marseille with the same ingredients, then machine-cut and stamped making the production much quicker. We are unable to predict production schedules and ocean freight timing to the exact date and try to update our site with our best estimate. We will ship your order today.

Drakkar Sauna's Wallace Cochran

The Moon For Its Citizens: A History of the Rocket from Hermes Trismegistus to the 23rd Century by Wallace Cochran. Covers letterpressed by Emprint Press on Curious Touch Soft Milk 11#C and contents printed by Pinball Publishing on Wausau Exact Opaque Peach 60#T and Wausau Exact Opaque Gray 60#T. Reflex blue ink. Design by AF Jamison. First printing limited to 500 copies (Marriage Publishing House, $18).
This GORGEOUS book comes with a free digital version of Drakkar Sauna's new album 20009, which is also available as an LP (Marriage Records, $12).

starting the christmas wish list (books)

phil elverum, mount eerie, $64
jo jackson/chris johanson, peaceable kingdom, $20
anna akhmatova, selected poems, $12.50
gordon burn/damien hirst, on the way to work, $50
e.e. cummings, complete poems 1904-1962, $50

the necklaces of anna weber

perfect additions to her paintings. come try them on!

New Carson Ellis work available

Color sketch for Dillweed’s Revenge by Florence Parry Heide
Ink and gouache on illustration board
5.5" x 5.5"

Old Portland

Graphite
3.5" x 5.25"

Astrology
Ink and watercolor on illustration board
6.25" x 8"

Exciting additions to the list this time around: First, original illustrations for Colin Meloy's upcoming book The Unfortunate Demise of Whitley Rackham, which Stumptown Printers plan to letterpress in the next few months. We are offering two pen and ink drawings from this project for now (update: one left). Also included is a gouache sketch Carson did when she was working on Dillweed's Revenge (update: sold). She's just finished illustrating this book, which was written in the 60's! It should be out sometime next year. Price list upon request.

two shelves full of treats

while we still wait for the marseille soaps to be back (hopefully by the end of the month, the family who makes them by hand took july and august off...), we're now fully stocked with treats. due to the strong euro some of the prices went up a bit, but we are doing all we can to keep these affordable and in par with similar US treats you may find at your local grocery stores.
now for the good news: bonne maman is offering their chesnut spread again ($8), and we decided to carry les anis de flavigny in violette, rose, AND anise this time around ($4). let us know if you like the additions. also back in stock: suchard rochers noirs ($2.5, the dark chocolate and hazelnut bomb), lajaunie cachou ($4), lu palmitos and mikados ($4/$2), voisin pure cocoa powder ($8). and let's not forget the chefs: le guérandais fine grey sea salt, hand picked in guérande ($8), and dea harissa ($5) for all your north african cooking needs.
à table!

classique? oui.

camus' the stranger and the myth of sisyphus
(vintage international, $12/$14)

this just in!

NEAL MORGAN: TO THE BREATHING WORLD
(LP, DRAG CITY, $14)

"TO THE BREATHING WORLD is a drum and voice record, composed entirely of my own drumming and singing, made in between tours playing with Joanna Newsom in support of Ys beginning in early 2007. This is a special debut album for me. After two decades drumming and singing in support roles and learning other instruments with which I had no sacred bond thinking I had to do so in order to make my own music, I found that all I needed was just the drums and my voice. The result is that, for the first time, I’ve found something to call my own."

"The sound of TO THE BREATHING WORLD is spread visually, with a mental compass arcing from ear to ear. The relationships of the sounds to the song, and the impulse of where exactly was best to put them, is represented in the final mix – a mix achieved in the cans, with pans being just as important to the song as the lyrics and the playing. This makes the arrangement." Drag City

OCEAN BARBER

You all laugh, so I laugh,
and think of how
I want that: My voice,
only wider and happier,
multiplied without echo.

We are so happy to be now carrying Alisha Adam's new collection of poetry, Ocean Barber, the first book to come out of Existential Media.
From the forward: After col­lege, I lived at home with my par­ents for a time. I spent my days culling mys­ti­cism from bore­dom; hunt­ing mir­a­cles in the plain. The duller I became, the more inscrutable every­day life. And this was good, like a very young wine, or a promise.

keep your feet up

anna's show is up. stop by the opening tomorrow night!

ANNA WEBER

On view October 7th - November 8th
Opening reception Friday October 9th, 6pm - 8pm

Anna Weber presents a new series of paintings, drawings, and necklaces inspired by geometry, architecture, maps, textiles, sign painters, symmetry, balance, falling, and floating.

Anna Weber (b. 1983, Boise, Idaho) is primarily a self-taught artist, having studied one year at PNCA (2005-2006). Her work includes costumery, puppetry, and soft-sculpture in addition to painting, drawing and serigraph. She's had exhibitions at Motel, Valentine's, and Half and Half in Portland, OR and at MCLA Gallery 51 in North Adams, MA. Her costumes, often commissioned by performing arts groups and musical bands, have been part of the Kitchen Sink project as well as TBA. Weber currently lives and works in Boise, Idaho.

sad news

apparently monsieur monteux, in his 90's, has retired and retired his business as well, not being able to bear the thought of it passing out of the family. this means sadly that we won't be able to carry the orange blossom water, a favorite at NATIONALE, anymore. it seems like the rose one is still available for now, but zut alors what a bummer.

get smart, or die trying

used books, $2-5

FALL? YES PLEASE.

40's aligator peep-toe pumps with mary-jane buckles ($42), deer skin gloves ($18), 60's austrian musketeer green hat ($38)

60's electra fur hat with feather holder ($38)

green 60's mohair coat ($38), carved "B" leather belt ($22)

abstract eagle bolo tie ($18) / "M" bolo tie ($18)

sesto meucci of florence italy brown flats (7M, $18)

perfect brown oxfords for the fall (the gap, 6.5B, $18)

haband for her with pillows as insoles! (6.5M, $16)

salvatore ferragamo boutique (9, $28)

brown wooven flats (7M, $16)

send us your photos

one very exciting thing is that anna weber is having a solo show at NATIONALE in october. another very exciting thing is that she's been working on drawings of people doing handstands. if you have a chance, take photos of yourself and/or friends doing handstands and send them our way in the next couple days. everyone wins. nationale.portland@gmail.com

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victory wolf release party, friday 9/25 at 5pm

new bottles. new labels. new season.
come smell fall.
this friday.
5pm - 7pm.
free samples with purchase of victory wolf or 6/7.
olo loves you.
we do too.

we welcome the fall with victory wolf by olo

victory wolf.
inspired by men we love.
with cedarwood, tobacco, and cade.
9 ml, $20