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<i>The Scout a.k.a. Times staff writer David A. Keeps brings you the coolest design innovations and shopping scoops:</i><br>
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Michelle Weaver, a set designer and prop stylist, and Chelsea Iovino, a wardrobe manager for the likes of Janet Jackson and Pink, have partnered to create the home fashion boutique <a href="http://www.mercado-store.com/">Mercado</a> in Silver Lake.<br>
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The women define their look as restrained opulence, with a fine selection of ceramics and glassware (including the apothecary jars shown here, from $82) alongside imported home fragrances, bath products and candles from the French firm Côté Bastide, as well as Egyptian stainless steel lanterns.

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( Karen Tapia-Andersen / Los Angeles Times )

The Scout a.k.a. Times staff writer David A. Keeps brings you the coolest design innovations and shopping scoops:

Michelle Weaver, a set designer and prop stylist, and Chelsea Iovino, a wardrobe manager for the likes of Janet Jackson and Pink, have partnered to create the home fashion boutique Mercado in Silver Lake.

The women define their look as restrained opulence, with a fine selection of ceramics and glassware (including the apothecary jars shown here, from $82) alongside imported home fragrances, bath products and candles from the French firm Côté Bastide, as well as Egyptian stainless steel lanterns.

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