Scroll any real-estate listing long enough and a pattern emerges. White sofa. Bone-colored walls. Beige rug. Pale wood. Repeat. Interiors scrubbed of personality.
Then you walk into Sarasota Architectural Salvage, where nothing matches on purpose, nothing is neutral and nothing pretends to be new.
It’s delightfully cluttered. Layered, rusted, ornate, strange and beautiful. For 23 years, founder and owner Jesse White has been running a quiet rebellion against the aesthetic of erasure—a warehouse built on the idea that history, texture and imperfection are not problems to be solved…