Shop at Jarves & Main in Sandwich, Massachusetts

Last year, the shop launched its own brand of home fragrances and candles, made in France. The scents are all named for elements from French classical gardens: Allée, Parterre, and Bosquet, to name a few.

A custom cabinet is backed with Thibaut grasscloth and displays everything from Haws watering jugs to Bergs Potter ceramics and framed watercolors by local artist Áine Cole.

Jarves & Main is located in a building that was constructed in 1870 as a dry-goods mercantile on the ground floor with a meeting hall on the floor above.

Shop owner and interior designer Leslie-jon Vickory behind the counter at Jarves & Main in Sandwich.

Leslie-jon Vickory wants you to think of her Sandwich shop, Jarves & Main, as a garden. Not necessarily literally—though there are delightful topiaries and those satisfyingly balanced Haws watering cans—but certainly figuratively. “The shop’s personality began to evolve about six months after we opened,” says Vickory, “and it became clear that the space celebrates life and home as metaphors for gardens that are constantly growing and creating.”

Vickory opened the 700-square-foot store, located on the corner of Jarves and Main streets, in 2022 after moving back to the area from Boston with her partner, architect Kahlil Hamady. (The couple has a studio at the back of the boutique in addition to an office in Greenwich, Connecticut.) Vickory’s career trajectory began in luxury residential construction before veering toward interior design in the early 2000s. Along the way, she spent seven years teaching at Boston Architectural College, and she and Hamady have led classes for the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art at its headquarters in New York City, at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and in Paris.

It goes without saying that the Massachusetts native has honed her eye for design, especially when it comes to heritage brands and items you might not find easily on Cape Cod. Case in point: Jarves & Main became stockists for British paint and paper company Little Greene last year.

Speaking of painting, Vickory creates drawings and watercolor renderings of many of her projects. Her work can be seen on the labels of the shop’s own line of made-in-Grasse candles and home fragrances. Shoppers might even catch her drawing at her drafting table near the front desk, a quiet moment that adds
to an already tranquil sensibility. Jarves & Main, Sandwich, jarvesandmain.com