This Minnesota store owner found a niche in life-friendly products
In Business of Home's series Shop Talk, we chat with owners of home furnishings stores across the country to hear about their hard-won lessons and ...
In Business of Home's series Shop Talk, we chat with owners of home furnishings stores across the country to hear about their hard-won lessons and challenges, big and small—to find out what they see for the future of small industry businesses like theirs. This week, we spoke with Edina, Minnesota–based interior designer Bria Hammel, who didn't set out to run a brick-and-mortar store. Instead, she was approached in the spring of 2021 about a retail pop-up, which proved so popular she's maintained it as Brooke & Lou, which is named for her two children.