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Alta Tingle opened The Gardener in 1984 in a small storefront in Berkeley, California. In 1987, The Gardener moved across the street to its present location, into a space more than triple the size of the original store. A second store opened in Healdsburg, California in 1998, in a barn surrounded by a large garden. A third store opened in San Francisco in 2003, in the newly renovated Ferry Building.
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Alta, a former garden designer and lecturer on landscape design, is an avid gardener and photographer. The Gardener is a collection of all the things that Alta, through her talents and interests, has learned to enjoy and appreciate in her life - a great pair of Japanese scissors for cutting flowers, the purest bar of lavender soap, a big ceramic bowl for the kitchen to hold the season's offerings - things that before had required trips to nurseries, hardware and specialty stores. When The Gardener first opened, there had never been a collection that recognized that even the most avid gardener lives indoors.
The stores specialize in unique accessories and furnishings for indoors and out and each location offers merchandise specific to that location. Alta is guided in her buying by a lifelong affinity for texture and minimal design. Influences of the season have always guided the product selection.
The stores have been featured in every leading shelter magazine, as well as The New York Times, and Departures Magazine: "The Gardener is Alta Tingle's one-of-a-kind, from-all-over-the-globe store on Fourth Street in Berkeley. When I first visited Alta's store a few years ago I wanted every single thing there. Thanks to a keen eye and commanding sense of style, Alta seems to know innately how we want to live now." (Richard David Store, editor-in-chief of Departures).
Photo of Alta Tingle by Amanda Marsalis. Originally published in House & Garden
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