Gwen Mazer Collection, 60 Maiden Lanem, San Francisco
1987-1990 - The best and first salon dedicated to women's accessories ever created - concept by Gwen Mazer, company developed by her and Bennett Hall, design, and construction management, David Colleen primary architect, Peter Petruzzi associate; staircase by Tony Dominski, West Edge Design. This store opened shortly before venture funded Imposters opened up to compete with low cost accessories for women unfortunately prior to Maiden Lane's renewal and the 1989 Earthquake impacting long term sustainability.
The salon carried all types of women's accessories with the exception of shoes - with approximately 3000+ different items at any one time from about 180 vendors, providing astonishing diversity.
Point of Sale system was custom written in Fourth Dimension, a fully relational database, written by genius Tim Hill in consultation with Bennett Hall on the original 512K Mac, souped up to a 'whopping' 2 Megs of RAM - screaming machine for 1988. The code actually worked! It managed inventory, SKUS, printed labels (on that original $5K apple laser writer - remember??) ,handled custom mailings, printed invoices and receipts, vendor POs the whole lot.
the location is now TSE.
Gwen Mazer Collection, 60 Maiden Lanem, San Francisco
1987-1990 - The best and first salon dedicated to women's accessories ever created - concept by Gwen Mazer, company developed by her and Bennett Hall, design, and construction management, David Colleen primary architect, Peter Petruzzi associate; staircase by Tony Dominski, West Edge Design. This store opened shortly before venture funded Imposters opened up to compete with low cost accessories for women unfortunately prior to Maiden Lane's renewal and the 1989 Earthquake impacting long term sustainability.
The salon carried all types of women's accessories with the exception of shoes - with approximately 3000+ different items at any one time from about 180 vendors, providing astonishing diversity.
Point of Sale system was custom written in Fourth Dimension, a fully relational database, written by genius Tim Hill in consultation with Bennett Hall on the original 512K Mac, souped up to a 'whopping' 2 Megs of RAM - screaming machine for 1988. The code actually worked! It managed inventory, SKUS, printed labels (on that original $5K apple laser writer - remember??) ,handled custom mailings, printed invoices and receipts, vendor POs the whole lot.
the location is now TSE.