The V. C. Morris Gift Shop is located at 140 Maiden Lane in downtown San Francisco, California, United States, and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948.
The store was used by Wright as a physical prototype, or proof of concept for the circular ramp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
[1] All of the built-in furniture is constructed out of black walnut, is original to the renovation, and was designed by Manuel Sandoval, who apprenticed and worked with Frank Lloyd Wright.
The gallery's website reported that it "put the million[-]dollar restoration in the capable hands of Aaron Green, who had worked with Wright on other projects such as the Marin Civic Center and was meticulous in maintaining the building's original detail and integrity.
[6] The building was occupied – for at least at few weeks in 2016 – by Gwyneth Paltrow's goop MRKT, which identifies itself as a "lifestyle [operation], offering a tight curation of products and content.