Martin & Macarthur

(5) ~ Excellent pieces of Koa products… the Koa Watches were amazing! Please note Koa wood is $$$;)

This gorgeous gallery is in the Kuki’ula shopping center, across from Tortilla Republic. We noticed it last night after dinner at Eating House 1849 and checked it out after brunch this morning at Tortilla Republic. Everything in the gallery is Hawaiian made. There are beautiful watches made of Koa wood. There are clocks of Koa cut in the shapes of Hawaiian quilt patterns, wooden boxes, marquetry, art glass, jewelery and much more. The quality is high. Galleries like this gladden my heart. Of course a couple of pieces of glass from Chris Lowry and Christopher Richards of Hot Island Glass, glassblowers in Makawao, Maui caught my eye, one a bowl and one a large plate, the same Marigold pattern, a luminous blue that draws you in as you look at it. We’ll be here another week. We’ll see how strong my resistance is. Later: well, not even a day. After dinner tonight we stopped by again so I could show it to Alan, who was as smitten by it as I was. My darling bought the bowl for me for Mother’s Day and my birthday. What a guy! It will be shipped home at the end of the week.