![]() Their second renovation, Jasper Studios, also contains all manner of eclectic talent: artist-in-residence painters, fashion phenoms, in-demand local photographers, furniture builders, designers of restaurant interiors, plus their newly opened Voloshin clothing-line showroom. Moore near Front Street, started as a long-shot pipe dream before becoming a haven for makers, creatives, and even bespoke wellness and fitness studios. Their first development, Paper Box Studios, on a now-bustling corridor off Cecil B. Their impact, however, is larger than just their own companies: As budding developers and event planners, they’re also building work spaces for other local creators and artists. Over the past 15 years, the Voloshins have become major players in building up Philly’s increasingly vibrant creative and maker scene, in part by starting their own successful businesses here, including Printfresh Studio, a flourishing textile design outfit for the fashion and home industries, and Voloshin, their feminine, bohemian clothing line. The coffee grinder whirs in the background, and a minute later, she hands me an espresso in a tiny ceramic cup. The square will, I’m told, be a flower-bedecked gathering space for the makers who rent offices here.īest of Philly 2019: 341 Places, People, and Things We LoveĪmy, 38, is in the kitchen behind us, chatting with a designer - one of dozens of employees on this floor who constantly flit to her with questions. We’re gazing down at the aforementioned piece of metal, now fixed innocuously upright in a courtyard that’s not quite a courtyard yet. I’m hearing the story from Leo, 37, a week later, as we stand at a window on the top floor of Jasper, the 80,000-square-foot warehouse the Voloshins have remade into artist studios. The wound was two inches from his femoral artery, which was potentially fatal but mostly inconvenient - he and his wife and business partner, Amy Voloshin, had to be in New York that day for the Phoenicia Flea Market, a hip maker emporium at which the couple sells merch from their popular Philly-based clothing and stationery lines. ![]() ![]() He has four stitches in his right thigh, incurred last week when a 10-foot steel beam he was trying to install in the courtyard of Kensington’s Jasper Studios toppled, ricocheted off the cement in the parking lot, and gashed him. Amy and Leo Voloshin in their new showroom.
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