Art & Sole - Comfort Footwear

Art & Sole Comfort Shoes is a full service shoe store and *repair facility. We are located in Portland, Oregon at 1412 NE Alberta Street. We are open 5 days a week Tuesday through Friday 11-6 and Saturday 12-5. If you are in Portland call 503-285-SHOE (7463) or toll-free 1-877-285-SHOE (7463).

Mission:
We are dedicated to improving the quality of life for our customers by ensuring comfort and safety, through proper fitting footwear that promotes healthy legs and feet.

Company History:
Art & Sole was started in a small North Portland garage in 2001 by Marty Krogh Jr. who was moving from a ten year career in Graphic Design (click here to see design Portfolio); back to his roots as a "shoe dog". "I grew up selling and fixing shoes in my dad's shops and I always knew that fixing shoes was a pretty good outlet for my creative side". With my graphic design background I was able to create a very compelling and effective niche website that quickly enabled people from all over the country to send their beloved Birkenstocks to my shop. After a year of splitting my time between freelance graphic design and refining my repair skills I walked away from the handful of design clients I had, and leased a store- front on North Interstate Avenue; for just over 6 years. In April 2010 we relocated the shop to Alberta Steet in North East Portland; about 2 miles from the old location on Interstate.

Sustainability:
*(special notice: As of 1/1/07 Art & Sole has cut back our repair services to only minor repairs, sewing rips, shoe shines and stretching; in order to grow our retail business). Every day people come into our store and talk about how shoes simply can not be repaired today; like they used to be. That is true. It takes creative new approaches and willingness to take chances and the possibility of failure. New materials, adhesives, techniques and tools are used in our shop which simply did not exist a 10 years ago. This is not to say that we don't get old school on this stuff. In fact, there are still many great manufactures building high quality shoes, boots and sandals, based on decades of tradition and we have the ability to combine traditional techniques with new solutions, that keeps this stuff on the road. Having said that; I will say that about 1 in 5 pair that comes through our doors is turned down simply because it's not worth investing in, but you just never really know until you bring it in and we take a look at the challenge. We take pride in performing high quality repairs that prevent more junk from being buried in the dirt or floated on a garbage barge.

Community:
Art & Sole is dedicated to our community by donating to the following organizations: SMART, this program gets to the heart of the matter simply by reading to children. The Bus Project... driving votes.. leaders and change, Kenton/Interstate Little League, ThirdRailz Rep, Caring Community of North Portland, Holy Redeemer Catholic School, COPS, Astor Elementary, Chief Joseph Elementary-Night of Magic, North Portland Parent Neighborhood Network, Arbor Lodge Neighborhood Association, Overlook neighborhood association, Special Olympics, Lee Owen Stone Preschool and The Emerson School.

Privacy:
Art & Sole is committed to protecting your privacy. The information you share helps us provide the best products and service possible. When you become an Art & Sole customer, we require specific information to fill your order. Some of this information includes name, billing and shipping addresses, phone number, credit card information, and e-mail address. We handle this information in a secure, confidential manner. This privacy policy may be modified. Future modifications to this policy will be posted on our web site.