Beam & Anchor

Beautiful hand crafted, small business items. Well made and designed. Excellent place to find gifts. Hot day and they offered us amazing loose leaf iced tea. Their credit card app was down for about 5 minutes and they gave each of us a bar of salted chocolate. Great customer service! A+!!!

I could have been a great customer of theirs. I have clients that would appreciate their offerings. I’ve given them many chances to provide customer service (like three), the latest of which was when the owner couldn’t be bothered to return my phone call inquiring about custom tables. Well, I give up. I’ll take my business elsewhere.
It started with one of their opening parties which I just happened to stumble on since I drive past the shop on my way home. Nevermind that I’m a designer that should have been marketed to with an invitation. I don’t think I was quite hip enough to be there, because I was ignored completely, even when I tried to track them down with inquiries about their products.
The last time I was in the store, I asked for a dimension on a table and the clueless worker made excuses as to why he couldn’t find a tape measure, and then broke out a teeny tiny ¼″ wide one, and proceeded to give me vague, inaccurate loose dimensions. Hey buddy, when someone is asking for dimensions, they need such to be, ahem, EXACT. This place is just too hip for its own good. I guess they must have their exclusive clientele who they must service, or they wouldn’t be in business.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they folded.

I’m in love!
I bought a few things here. What a great selection of home décor, jewelry, and gifts. Fits right into my style.
Service was friendly, and not in your face. A must go to!

If I was writing a top 10 places to shop in Portland book this would be #1! Followed by breakfast at Broder Nord up the street. A perfect Portland tourist’s morning.
Beautifully curated. I want to live in a world they create. Check out the Imaginary Author scents. Cobra + the Canary are my favorite. If you want to bring home unique, modern and hand crafted gifts from Portland this is the best.

This place is magical. It will make you never want to try and make/​create/​craft anything again because everything is so cool. This is a good thing. A sweet lady makes soap above the shop and it makes the whole shop smell like lemongrass. I want to bottle up this little shop and keep it in my pocket.

This store is a great treat! It feels finely curated in the choices of items and while there is a lot of stuff, it is ordered and a pleasure to walk through. I loved the handmade focus and wonderful materials used. I think I walk around this store over and over again, just soaking in the good vibe and lovely crafted items. I bought a few things for my new home and I’m loving them. It isn’t a steal, but it feels very worth the prices.

The nice shopkeeper at nearby Lowell recommended that I take a look at Beam & Anchor before moving on too far out of the neighbourhood. All I had to do was remember to turn right at Widmer and not Left. After I turned around, I found Beam & Anchor sitting by its lonesome and not sure what may be contained within. But park I did and what I found was a really cool store with lots of «Made in Portland» stuff to look at.
You’re still going to have to go to Beckel Canvas or Tanner Goods yourself, but Polar Goods and other Rose City creations are here and very nicely curated and displayed. My only complaint is that the handwritten tags are a little hard to read, both in terms of penmanship and available light.
Downstairs you’ll find custom furniture, ceramics, jewelry, paper goods, leather, apothecary, artwork, and various accessories. If you ask the guy at the front desk nicely, he might give you a tour of the upstairs, which includes a wood-​working shop and various creative studios. I ended up with a nice knife (and sheath) that interestingly enough wasn’t made in Portland (but easily could have). There’s so much neat stuff (albeit a bit pricey in spots) to consider here that I’m sure to be back the next time I’m in Portland.

Discovered this Beam & Anchor after visiting Lowell around the corner. Lowell has a much more antique and folk art vibe while B&A is more focused on recently made items by locals. I recommend hitting both shops up while you’re in the neighborhood! They pair well together.

I know that there isn’t a scarcity of beautiful, personally-​curated shops in Portland filled with local, handmade goods, but Beam & Anchor is seriously one of the best of those types of stores in town. I would buy everything in this store, if it wasn’t just so damned expensive!
The only reason why I’m giving this 4 stars instead of 5 is because of its price (think: VERY expensive. Who in Portland can afford to live like this?), location (basically in the middle of nowhere?), and the terrible way they label their goods (on index cards, making it hard to match the price to the good they’re talking about). Aside from that, I would heartily recommend it to successful people with lots of money and good taste looking to spend.

Lovely store with vintage, leather, local goods… our Couchsurfing hosts took us here. The upstairs is amazing. Creative people work up here with soaps, leather, upholstery and wood. Amazing place. Loved the vibe!

What a beautiful place! Most of their products are out of my price range, but they have a vast array of local goods.

Beam & Anchor represents authentic handcrafted and upcycled Northwest American beauty. The vibe is 20^th century made-​in-​America classic items, built to last by Americans.
This store is a warm labor of love collected from local craftspeople. Furniture, jewelry, candles, purses, bags, dog leashes — collars, scents, knives, kitchen items, crockery, pillows, lighting, pens, and notebooks mix with near antiques.
The most stunning work is the furniture. Early-​mid-​century classics and industrial shop items are updated with new upholstery, including Eames-​Herman Miller rockers in Pendleton fabrics. Old tables and factory bases wear their age with new local Northwest hardwood tops, from trees older than a hundred years, and impeccably finished. Classic couches and chairs assume a new fifty to one hundred years life with durable recoverings and renewal. New handcrafted furniture is mixed in at reasonable prices given the craftsmanship and materials. Many of their makers are in the self same building — that’s local!
It’s a highly curated perfect Portland complement to Redux, Crafty Wonderland and Tanner Goods. They take The Good Mod-​like items and improve them. These items at ABC would be four times the price. It would be an excellent place to shop for creative, designer and artistic individuals who have a romance for aesthetics that fall in time between before great grandparents and after mid-​century modern.
If you are visiting Portland, have friends & relatives visiting, or live in Portland and are looking for handcrafted items, you will enjoy visiting this store. In fact, you might just want to set up an old canvas tent, light a campfire, put some coffee, bacon and eggs on, curl up in your Pendleton and live here!
(Note Interstate Avenue is divided here, the best parking is on N. Knott Street off Mississippi, they have a small lot, or walk from N. Russell nearby)