COLUMBIA — While the Cottontown location may be closed, the duo behind vintage market and arts co-op NOMA Warehouse are planning to keep their creative hub going with a new collaboration.
Mazie Cook and Beth Lawson, the family team behind the now-shuttered NOMA Warehouse on Sumter Street, announced Feb. 16 they are teaming up with Re-Find, a vintage and antiques shop making the move from northeast Columbia to the popular Rosewood neighborhood.
The collaboration will kick off with a Friday night market called Night Shift at the soon-to-open vintage shop, according to Lawson.
"It just felt like a no brainer," Re-Find owner and operator Padgett McGuire told Free Times. "I have a lot of respect for (Lawson and Cook) and I feel like our businesses are complimentary."
From March to October, Night Shift will take place the last Friday of each month and feature Re-Find's 50-plus full-time vendors, as well as pop-up sellers, food, drinks and music. Lawson said vendors can apply to participate on the businesses' social media pages.
NOMA Warehouse co-owners and operators, Mazie Cook, left, and Beth Lawson on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024.
The antique mall will still focus on vintage wares, McGuire said, but the market is intended to include makers and artists, too.
The market will be at Re-Find's new location on South Edisto Street, slated to open in March. The move comes after the vintage shop has spent the last decade on Two Notch Road in Pontiac, more than a 20-minute drive from Columbia's downtown.
According to McGuire, the new Rosewood location more than doubles his shop's size, leaving room for more vendors and events, like Night Shift.
“There’s so many creative, talented young people who are getting into it and having a lot of fun running in the industry,” McGuire told Free Times in 2023. “It’s just neat to see how they’ve interpreted antiques and vintage.”
The news about Night Shift comes about a month after Lawson and Cook announced they were stepping away from NOMA Warehouse, which they envisioned as a hub for creatives and craftspeople to gather, work and sell their wares.
While the duo closed NOMA Warehouse due to the constrains it posed upon their family, they vowed to "keep the flame alive" and look for chances to collaborate with other businesses in town to host events and widen peoples' access to local artists.
“It’s not dying, it’s just transforming," Cook said ahead of the closure.
Rowdy Vintage, the vintage clothing storefront that was housed in NOMA Warehouse, will move to Re-Find’s new location, too.
For more information about Night Shift — and Re-Find and NOMA Warehouse's next moves — follow the businesses on Instagram @refindsc and @nomawarehouse, respectively.
