Flax Art & Design
Arts & Crafts Supplies in San Francisco, CA
The Flax family has enjoyed serving the creative community in the Bay Area through our San Francisco retail store since 1938. Through the years, we have become best known for carrying an incredible breadth of product (over 40, 000 items) delivering you with a courteous and knowledgeable team, and our capability to inspire creativity through the thoughtful presentation of merchandise. We're a fun place to shop, and as one client said, we're a candy store for the creative. Whether you are the creative one, or you are shopping for someone who is, we know you will enjoy yourself and find what you're searching for.
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Flax Art & Design
read moreFlax has been at the center of the Bay Area arts community since 1938. Now run by the 3rd generation of the Flax family, we offer an unbeatable range of art supplies to inspire your creativity. Supported by our renowned service levels, with experienced staff to lend expert advice, you are sure to find everything you need from paints and art surfaces, to drawing supplies and studio needs. You'll also find kid's art and craft supplies and gifts for creatives in your life. Visit either of our stores in San Francisco and Oakland, or shop online for curbside pickup or local delivery.
About Us
read moreFLAX art & design, the Bay Area's most well-loved retail art supply business, has been serving the creative community since 1938. Our stores are conveniently located in Downtown Oakland, and along San Francisco's north side waterfront at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. Whichever location you choose, as customers often say, FLAX is a "candy store for the creative". A family-owned business headed by Howard Flax, who represents the third generation along with his brother Craig and their sister Leslie Flax Abel, FLAX has a long history supporting artists and the Bay Area arts community.
Studio
read moreAn easel is an essential tool for any painter. Whether painting at home or outdoors, we have a range of styles and sizes to fit your needs from table easels, studio easels to sketching easels, and sketch box easels.
Art Studio Supplies
read moreAn artist's studio is the place where ideas come to life. Find the right tools, furniture, lighting and storage systems you need to create your ideal studio space at FLAX art & design. From projectors and lightboxes to archival storage boxes, to easels and mannequins, we have the tools you need.
Art Paint Supplies
read moreAcrylic paints to watercolors and everything in between, browse the categories at left to enable your painting pleasure. Here you will find everything necessary to inspire creativity and realize your artistic vision. Use our fluid acrylic paints and powdered dry pigments, with our artist paint brushes to unleash your imagination. You can also find painting tools & accessories, including paint storage supplies, painting easels, and more. Choose from many other options of paints, like oil paints, water-based spray paints, and gouache paint.
Professional Drawing Supplies
read moreDrawing is one of the simplest and most beautiful ways to visually communicate with others. Starting with the modest line from a graphite pencil, figures and shapes take form, and can be expanded upon with the ever growing range of available materials you will find here and in our stores. We provide various supplies to draw with, including professional art markers, pastel sticks, and sketching pencils. Some tools and accessories to help you transfer your vision from your mind to paper are drawing inks, pencil sharpeners, and pen nibs and holders.
Craft Supplies USA
read moreWe are in the midst of a creative renaissance. Maker fairs, DIY, Etsy, Pinterest and so much more - there's a new belief that we are all makers, doers, tinkerers and artists and crafters. And we are! So pick a category at left and start your journey.
Drawing Paper
read moreA passion for beautiful papers has been at the very heart of our family art supply business for three generations. We are renowned as one of the finest paper stores in the world, carrying paper supplies including hundreds of different papers. Visit our stores and see for yourself. Printmaking - Rives BFK (up to 30x44), Stonehenge (white up to 38x50), Lenox, Folio Vellum, Arches Platine, Somerset Book, and Hahnemuhle German Etching and Copper Plate. Rives and Stonehenge available in different colors and in roll form.
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