Carly Pippin had long imagined opening an antique shop in Santa Barbara. As a child, she made day trips from Westlake Village with her family, often stopping at Lewis & Clark, a longtime antique store in La Arcada Plaza. “That was always one of our favorite shopping destinations,” she mused.
Now, the setting has become something like a loop closing on itself. On May 7, Pippin opened her own shop, aptly named Pippin, just around the corner from Lewis & Clark.
“When I moved to Santa Barbara two years ago, it felt like this was the place and this was the time,” she shared, sitting opposite me in her new store. “It’s such a magical city, and it’s so community-oriented — I thought a retail shop might survive here.”