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5280 Top of the Town
2007:
8/07
Denver Post: Room to Grow
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5/07
Rocky Mountain News Spotlight: Eat. Drink. Shop
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4/27/07
dezi does fashion commentary on Gwen Stefani
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1/06
Cherry Creek News: You're not seeing spots
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6/06
polkadot and Wedding Wednesdays get's a the Westword Best of for Best
Bridal Show
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11/28/05
polkadot on 5280 Magazines's blog
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1/06
Denver Daily Bliss
Full
Circle
Follow the dots to polkadot.
The wares at polkadot hit the spot. Fashion entrepreneur Dezi Gellman's
got a thing for polka dots. And that's evident everywhere in polkadot,
her newly opened shop on Old South Pearl Street, where a distinctly
dotty theme bounces its way
through the merchandise, from a display of pastel-dotted latte cups
to the chic silk scarves by local designer Lourdes Rios, which are draped
across a wall using antiqued cast-iron alphabet hooks. Gellman, who
tends the boutique herself, has even been observed wearing a bracelet
of multicolored boiled-wool orbs.
"I chose it because it's timeless," she says of the fundamental
graphic that's her store's namesake. "And I wanted this to be a
timeless gift shop." Conceived as a place to find elegant, useful,
collectible or funny gifts for bridesmaids, wives, moms and
everyone's favorite - the shoppers themselves, polkadot truly runs the
gamut, offering everything from toiletries to fake food, with plenty
to browse through in between.
That ladylike hodgepodge includes Gellman's self-designed Dezi Bags,
Ritzenhoff's mini-piggy banks designed by graphic artists, Davies Gate
soaps (try the Peppermint Fizz Pop - a bath fizz ball filled with body
oil and perched on a stick), locally made Elements Home Spa Escape kits,
heavenly angelica-scented candles from La Luz or fun, fuzzy gloves in
shiny, spicy colors.
And for
the feminine funny bone, there are those aforementioned fake foods:
sinfully dunkable "Faux Nuts," just-opened champagne bottles
dripping with phony foam, chocolate strawberries and messy ice-cream
cups like the ones your four-year-old stirred too long.
-Susan Froyd / Westword
December 2005
