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One of our in-house designers, Steve Ebert, recently went on a 2,600 mile roadtrip in a loop around the Northwest and brought some of our shades along. The trip began from our hometown of Portland, OR and snaked through Idaho, into Yellowstone and finally up through Glacier National Park. Just after the 4th of July, […]

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Journey 006 features Jesse Morrow and crew as they travel the American Southwest, head up the California coast, and return to their home base of Seattle. Originally their trip was planned to support a coffee roaster initiative, interviewing individual roasters, shooting photos and compiling it all into a book of sorts. After several roasters pulled […]

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Winters in Portland are long, cold, and wet– but not quite cold enough to see any significant amount of snow in the city. Mt. Hood is close and accessible– if you’re willing to make the hour and a half drive and deal with the sometimes heavy traffic and often dangerous road conditions. The combination of […]

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Journeys 001

Spring is just around the corner and, like you,  we are itching to get outside. With this in mind we are beyond excited to announce a new photo essay series called Journeys. In this series we will utilize the Exposure.so platform to bring you along on our affiliated photographers ventures into the great outdoors. Words […]

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©Carl Corey BLUE

At Shwood, we believe in supporting and promoting US manufacturing, and recently came across an amazing photo survey by Wisconsin based photographer Carl Corey. The photographs are simple and pure, while extremely visually moving. They provide an inside look into the people and personalities that bring us many of the staple and truly American products. […]

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