Urban obsession: Gumps!

Oh my! How can I even describe how much I love visiting Gump’s? The art! The perfumes! The stationary! The china! The silver wing! My heart palptitates just thinking about it. Gump’s is the kind of store that stocks perfect things of all variety, no matter the price. You’re as likely to find a $40 set of porcelain bowls as you are a $3,000 oak bowl in their store.

Residents and visitors to San Francisco, I beg you to visit Gump’s instead of Saks, the hellishly-large Banana Republic or William-Sonoma on your next visit to Union Square. You have no idea what you are missing. Plus, Gump’s has one of the only public restrooms on the block. Keep it in mind!

I dragged a famished Nicole through Gump’s during our shopping trip Saturday. I even forced her to pick out her favorite China pattern and silverware in the registry department upstairs. I’m so cruel! If I were more organized I would make it a policy of only buying gifts at Gump’s. Wouldn’t you love a 14 inch porcelain bowl for your birthday? Or a sterling silver rattle for the new baby? Of course you would!