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ORANGE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ART AFFAIR GALA AWARD

Annual honorees are chosen by the Orange County Arts Council’s board in recognition of their contributions to the arts and their ability to make a difference in the lives of many people through their work.

Cooper Boone, owner of Foundry42+ in Port Jervis, NY, was chosen as an honoree in 2020!

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Foundry42 in Port Jervis wins Top 50 retailer award from Home Accents Today Magazine!

The national trade magazine, Home Accents Today, recently honored local retailer Foundry42 in Port Jervis as one of America's top 50 best and brightest home accessories retailers also known as the Retail Stars list. The “list” the most innovative independent brick-and-mortar retailers of home accents and accessories which includes furniture stores, home décor boutiques and interior design retailers that are creative in their merchandising, contribute to their communities and distinguish themselves from the competition. Owner Cooper Boone was “blown away” by the award and credits his amazing staff for “giving the store a soul and a place where people want to stay and shop.”

Boone will be attending a VIP dinner at AmericasMart in Atlanta GA this summer honoring the award winners. In the words of Jeff Portman, AmericasMart chairman, president and COO: “These 50 entrepreneurs are set apart as the best and brightest in an industry populated by highly gifted achievers. How good it is to help applaud and celebrate their remarkable accomplishments.”

Best described as a lifestyle store, they offer home goods, antiques, gifts, events, coffees, beers and wines. Foundry42 is located at 42 Front Street in Port Jervis, NY. WWW.F42Home.com.

Hudson Valley Parent

Foundry42, 42 Front St, Port Jervis

An eclectic gathering place is home to a creative workshop, special events and entertainment, education experiences, good food and a coffee bar. The coffee bar features their own combination of beans providing an exquisite coffee experience. 845-858-4942

Times Herald-Record

Foundry 42 earns award for experience-centered retail

PORT JERVIS - Cooper Boone received the first Renaissance Retailer Award at the 68th annual Retailer Excellence Awards for creating a “retail “experience” in a brick and mortar store with his Foundry 42 on Front Street in Port Jervis.

“He was chosen because he created a store that is a creative concept blend with all of what, who and why we love under one roof — gatherings, private events, entertainment and carefully curated products, including furniture he makes,” said Amy Loewenberg, buyer relations manager for Emerald Expositions, the awarding organization, purveyor of 55 trade shows. “Capturing attention is harder and harder. He represents the retail renaissance.”

Boone was given the award at NY NOW, a trade show for home, lifestyle, handmade and gift products, with 5,000 exhibitors and 26,000 attendees, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. Boone is a buyer there, and buyers come from around the world, Loewenberg said.

“The retail renaissance movement is an experiential movement, elevating what you experience in a brick and mortar store, what makes you want to go to a store and be faithful to a brand,” she said. “E-commerce retail is important, but 80 percent of purchases are in brick and mortar stores, where relationships with people and products are important. We provide people with tools for evolution in the retail industry.”

Ten other retailers received acknowledgment as “Ten to Watch,” Loewenberg said, noting that, based in New York City, she had been “aware” of Boone and Foundry 42. She called Boone with the news.

“I thought it was a prank call,” he said of the call he received in Atlanta a month ago.

Boone opened Foundry 42 in November 2016, but he said, “I had my eye on Port Jervis for 20 years. It didn’t make sense that the city wasn’t prospering, with its history, train line access, and reasonable property prices.”

The timing of his purchase of 42 Front St. resulted from a period when he was beginning to be a little “stir crazy,” he said. Previously, he was a child psychologist for 24 years, then a country singer and songwriter. He still writes songs.

But after his first year of being a father to twin girls, he said, “I wanted to be engaged in something. I was looking for my next act. Most would have looked at 42 Front and turned around, but I see through walls. It had good structure and original tin ceilings that could be restored.” He tore out eight layers of linoleum, carpet and paint to get to the maple floors.

“I wanted an environment where people wanted to stay, hang out and connect. The trifecta of my brain is food, design and events. I had done all this before, but not all at once,” he said.

Popular events, he said, have included the Hocus Pocus Ball, a Halloween costume event; and Buddy the Elf story time, where Boone is Buddy, reading a story to children, who then decorate cookies. Coming up this month is Unicorn Week, in which Boone appears as a unicorn, and a Hollywood makeup artist makes unicorns of others, who make unicorn dream-catchers and cookies.

His “Cooking with Cooper” event for children is always sold out, he says, and he recently did a live segment of it on a TV show, “Good Day Atlanta.” He said he got an email from a mother about how the class eased her 11-year-old son “out of his shell.”

Boone attributed the change to “social skill building” in the class. He teaches table manners, how to shake hands, make eye contact and behave in restaurants.

“Food is great at disarming strangers. My parents were huge foodies,” said Boone, who grew up in . “I’m still on a learning curve, listening to customers and being flexible. We didn’t have many kids’ events at first. Now we have lots.”

More recently, at his Girls Night Out, he noticed a long line by the tarot card reader. “I said, ‘Look. That’s crazy.’” So coming up are three “Paranormal Suppers.”

NY Now

NY NOW® Announces Cooper Boone is First Recipient of Renaissance Retailer Award 

New York, NY – July 15, 2019 – Emerald Expositions, the organizers of NY NOW®, announced today that Cooper Boone is the winner of the first Renaissance Retailer Award (REA). The award is for excellence in inspirational retail experience at the independent store level. Nominations were submitted by friends, colleagues and retailers, and the winner chosen by top industry retailers and designers.

Boone is a multi-talented singer, songwriter, clinical child psychologist, televised cook and owner of the award-winning lifestyle storeFoundry42, located in Port Jervis, NY. He has worked with Paula Deen, been featured on Good Morning America and ABC TVs live Nashville Christmas Special. He also toured his live Cooper’s Kitchen show for 10 years with Country Living Magazine Fair.

According to the judges, Boone was chosen because he is a visionary with an innate ability to work from his heart and develop his own beautifully curated universe. They added, “From pairing his own handmade furniture pieces with complimentary architectural gifting items, to developing creative workshops and even brewing their own combination of coffee beans in their café, Cooper continues to provide you an inspirational experience at Foundry 42 and celebrates it with you.”

 “Cooper Boone is the perfect inaugural recipient of this award,” said Kevin O’Keefe, Executive Vice President, Emerald Expositions. “He embodies the spirit of change and makes it his greatest strength by embracing it. We are honored and excited to celebrate his vision and success.”

The award will be presented at the 68th annual Retailer Excellence Awards (REA), hosted by Gifts & Decorative Accessories. The longest standing and most prestigious awards program for independent retailers in the gift and home industry, takes place on Sunday, August 11. Boone will also be recognized at the first NY NOW Awards Party on Monday, August 12.

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About NY NOW

The summer 2019 edition of NY NOW®, the Market for Home, Lifestyle, Handmade + Gift, will take place August 10-14, 2019 at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. NY NOW features three comprehensive collections — HOME, LIFESTYLE and HANDMADE — that encompass tens of thousands of products in hundreds of product categories. Building on the success of the Winter Market, the National Stationery Show® will take place during the same time in the River Pavilion and for the first time, will welcome a new co-location, JA New York, on level one in hals D and E at the Javits Center. Attendees from all 50 states and nearly 70 countries worldwide are expected. 

NY NOW is owned by Emerald Expositions, a leading operator of business-to-business trade shows in the United States. The company currently operates more than 55 trade shows, as well as numerous other face-to-face events. In 2017, Emerald’s events connected over 500,000 global attendees and exhibitors and occupied more than 6.9 million NSF of exhibition space. 

Gifts & Decorative Accessories

Cooper Boone to Receive First Renaissance Retailer Award

The award recognizes those that provide inspirational retail experiences at the independent store level.

Emerald Expositions, the organizers of NY NOW, have named Cooper Boone the winner of the first-ever Renaissance Retailer Award, to be awarded during the 68th annual Retailer Excellence Awards held Sunday, Aug. 11, at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York City. The event is hosted by Gifts & Decorative Accessories. Nominations were submitted by friends, colleagues and retailers, and the winner was chosen by top industry retailers and designers.

According to the judges, Boone was chosen because he is a visionary with an innate ability to work from his heart and develop his own beautifully curated universe. They added, “From pairing his own handmade furniture pieces with complimentary architectural gifting items, to developing creative workshops and even brewing their own combination of coffee beans in their café, Cooper continues to provide you an inspirational experience at Foundry 42 and celebrates it with you.”

Boone is a multi-talented singer, songwriter, clinical child psychologist, televised cook and owner of the award-winning lifestyle store Foundry42 in Port Jervis, N.Y. He has worked with Paula Deen, been featured on Good Morning America and ABC TV’s live Nashville Christmas Special. He also toured his live Cooper’s Kitchen show for 10 years with Country Living Magazine Fair.

“Cooper Boone is the perfect inaugural recipient of this award,” said Kevin O’Keefe, executive vice president of Emerald Expositions. “He embodies the spirit of change and makes it his greatest strength by embracing it. We are honored and excited to celebrate his vision and success.”

Boone will also be recognized at the first NY NOW awards party on Monday, Aug. 12.

Times Herald-Record

Cookbook signing draws crowd interested in healthy eating

PORT JERVIS - About 30 people seeking healthier recipes gathered recently at Foundry 42 for the “Well + Good” cookbook signing and tasting with co-author Melisse Gelula.

Foundry co-founder Cooper Boone provided hors d’oeuvres inspired by recipes in the book, as Gelula explained the reasoning behind the recipes and noted the wellness notables who contributed them. The contributors ranged from celebrity “functional medicine” physician Mark Hyman and tennis star Venus Williams to Gabrielle Bernstein, whom Gelula called “the Carrie Bradshaw of spirituality.”

“We asked people what they make when they get home hungry at 7 p.m. You cook more healthy food if it’s simple and fast,” said Gelula, who has a house in Narrowsburg.

With her co-author Alexia Brue, she co-founded a popular wellness trend website, wellandgood.com.

As for Gelula’s favorite recipe, that, she said, is chef Jodi Moreno’s white bean egg bake, labeled in the cookbook as being good for skin and being gluten- and dairy-free. All of the recipes specify their bodily benefits and diet suitability.

As one hors d’oeuvre was offered around, Boone pointed out how zucchini “elevated” the lamb in it.

“Think of zucchini with any meat, for health, flair and profile,” he said.

Elsewhere in the room, chatting and sampling at a table were Lisa Haggerty, an optometrist, and Lisa McAteer, a Realtor, from Milford, Pa. McAteer heard about the event from a friend and made a plan to use the cookbook with her two children, ages 12 and 7.

“I’ll have each pick out a recipe from the book. We’ll shop for ingredients, and I’ll supervise when they cook,” she said. “I want to get them interested in cooking healthy.”

Haggerty also wanted better meals for her children, who are 7 and 9. “We have a problem with consistency. We’re always in a rush and don’t have opportunities for wonderful meals together,” she said.

Bonnie Natt, from Middletown, and Eileen Ollinger, from Sugar Loaf, both Realtors, came because they heard Port Jervis is on the rise, and they wanted to eat more healthfully.

“We’re interested in health and cookbooks and a night out,” said Natt, noting that she follows Hyman on Instagram.

Nearby, Kristen Hanson, of Glen Spey, said she came to the event because she had been following Gelula’s food blogs.

“I went back to school to study integrative nutrition,” she said. “There’s so much you can do with food to prevent serious illness.”

Her husband died in 2017 of brain cancer that might have resulted from exposure to toxins in Iraq when he was a Marine, she said. He had been given four months to live, but lived four years, long enough for her to give birth to a second son and also start a nonprofit, Can’t Hurt Steel, to help community members with catastrophic illnesses and provide free or low cost wellness programs.

If they had understood his vulnerability, Hanson said, “We would have eliminated unhealthy foods, minimized sugar and environmental toxins, and eaten more anti-oxidants. I think the majority of illnesses result from poor nutrition and lifestyle choices. It’s easier to prevent disease than do symptom management.”

Good Day Atlanta

Cooper Boone has tips for cooking with kids on Good Day Atlanta

ATLANTA (FOX 5 Atlanta) - Cooper Boone is an award-winning singer, songwriter, clinical child psychologist, and cook. He lives in Port Jervis, New York where he owns his own lifestyle store and coffee bar Foundry42. He is also the proud father of twin girls. 

This week Boone is in Atlanta participating in a cooking demonstration at AmericasMart.  He stops by Good Day Atlanta to share tips on cooking with kids and is joined by 13-year-old Kira. The two demonstrate how to make parmesan twists and spinach and feta bites. For more information on Cooper Boone click here.  For today's recipes see below.   

Spinach and Feta Bites (Makes 25 bites)

• 2 cups drained frozen chopped spinach

• 1 teaspoon olive oil

• 4 ounces crumbled feta

• 2 tablespoons grated parmesan

• 2 green onions, sliced

• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

• 1/4 teaspoon pepper

• 2 eggs, divided

• 1 pound frozen puff pastry sheets, thawed

• ½ cup pine nuts

Retail Details Podcast

Retail Details the Podcast

Foundry 42 is a lovely lifestyle store in Port Jervis, New York, known for a communal atmosphere. Owner Cooper Boone tells Becky Tyre all about some of his favorite store events and why they were so successful, how listening to his customers dramatically changed the merchandise mix in the store and what simple marketing strategy he values above social media. Cooper shares his love of being a small, independent retailer in this first episode of retailers sharing their insights with other retailers.

Retailers sharing ideas with retailers. Retail Details is a podcast featuring and celebrating independent retailers, their stores and stories, struggles and triumphs. Join host Becky Tyre, founder of the Retail Details blog, as she invites retailers to share what drives them to be creative in cultivating, defining and redefining successful retail spaces along with tips, insights and inspirations.