The worst part about the Smithsonian: no, not the tourists.
It’s that you can’t point to the artifacts and say, “I’ll take it.”
Here to solve that problem: The Great Republic, a new shop out of Colorado filled with rare maps, flags and books, now open at CityCenterDC.
This is the kind of shop you’ll duck into when you need a gift for the senator who has everything. Or when you need a new flask for yourself. Or when you’d just like to smell some leather.
And bourbon. Arrive in the evening, when they’re apt to pour you a tipple of Eagle Rare. Take a load off in an easy chair and drink in your surroundings—oak millwork everywhere, chandeliers made from a motorcycle chain and a conveyor belt... to say nothing of the 13-star American flag, war bond posters from WWI and a wall-size naval military map from 1863. It’s all for sale.
If you’re not turning your living room into a museum, they’ve got plenty of other stuff, too, like handmade slingshots, ceramic flasks and anything that can be made from leather, from messenger bags to old-school baseballs to toothpick cases.
You really do need to organize all your toothpicks.
It’s that you can’t point to the artifacts and say, “I’ll take it.”
Here to solve that problem: The Great Republic, a new shop out of Colorado filled with rare maps, flags and books, now open at CityCenterDC.
This is the kind of shop you’ll duck into when you need a gift for the senator who has everything. Or when you need a new flask for yourself. Or when you’d just like to smell some leather.
And bourbon. Arrive in the evening, when they’re apt to pour you a tipple of Eagle Rare. Take a load off in an easy chair and drink in your surroundings—oak millwork everywhere, chandeliers made from a motorcycle chain and a conveyor belt... to say nothing of the 13-star American flag, war bond posters from WWI and a wall-size naval military map from 1863. It’s all for sale.
If you’re not turning your living room into a museum, they’ve got plenty of other stuff, too, like handmade slingshots, ceramic flasks and anything that can be made from leather, from messenger bags to old-school baseballs to toothpick cases.
You really do need to organize all your toothpicks.
