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  • Travel to Copenhagen. A Copenhagen City Guide by Poet and the Bench

    Travelogue: Copenhagen

    We had high hopes for our discovery trip to Copenhagen and wow did we ever fall in the love! The design and culture inspiration blew us away.

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  • Nordic Pop Up

    Nordic Pop Up

    Join us and shop new designers, vintage items and other super fabulous objects we discovered in Copenhagen and from around Scandinavia. We're also debuting a few new local designers. Come...

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  • Hurricane Harvey Has Touched Us All

    Hurricane Harvey Has Touched Us All

    Shop Today and 20% of Purchases Will be Matched and Donated to Hurricane Harvey relief. We're open 10:30-5:30. If you can't stop by, we've detailed a few organizations we've researched and...

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  • Add Us to Your Address Book

    Add Us to Your Address Book

    If you haven't already done so, please add hello@poetandthebench.com to your address book. Here's a handy how-to for some of the most popular email clients.

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  • Travelogue: Austin

    Travelogue: Austin

    For a weekend getaway we think Austin's got great food, a rich music scene and enough art and culture to make it one of the coolest cities around (though, summer is hot and...

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  • Travelogue: Cape Town

    Travelogue: Cape Town

    We've done our share of eating and exploring in and around Cape Town. While we haven’t been home recently, these are some of our not-to-be-missed experiences. Let us know if...

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  • Conversations with an Artist: Ineke Ruhland

    Conversations with an Artist: Ineke Ruhland

    Ineke is a classically trained perfumer, crafting scents that are complex, sophisticated and nuanced. Come check out Ineke's scents in the shop...they're layered with amazing top, middle and base notes...

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