There are some pretty funky mats made out of flip-flop remnants at Field.

The Larchmont shop also carries richly scented candles hand-made by The Soap & Paper Factory in Tappan,

magnets that started life as bottle caps ($20 for a set of six) and attractive “cruelty-free” vegan bags from Seattle designer Crystalyn Kae.

Gunda Sabel-Sheehan calls the Larchmont shop she opened in June an “eco/chic boutique” — and it’s easy to see why.

Just because things are made from recycled, sustainable or organic materials (or by companies that follow Fair Trade practices) doesn’t mean they’re dull.

Sabel-Sheehan picks up a sleep sack for a baby — from a Canadian company called 3 Sprouts— saying how it’s “organic and eco-friendly but really cute and stylish”

Finding items that are eco-minded is a focus.

“A. It’s important. B. It’s a totally new level of creativity out there,” she says, mentioning those flip-flop mats or frames made out of old pieces of boat wood. “It’s fun to see what’s out there.”

Sabel-Sheehan says her aesthetic is based on growing up in northern Germany, near the Danish border. She’s been influenced by Scandinavian design, evidenced by the way she has given her cozy 200-square-foot a simple white background that allows her colorful displays to pop.

Sabel-Sheehan, who lived in Brooklyn for eight years before moving to Larchmont five years ago, has even done some of her own recycling.

She’s turned vintage French linens into the shop’s curtains:

On sunny days, she even allows her merchandise to fill the sidewalk out front.

Field is billed as offering items for “home, life and people,” so an eclectic inventory isn’t surprising.

There are cookbooks and napkin rings ($8) with words like “feast” or “savor.”

There’s children’s clothing

and sturdy canvas bags ($155) ideal for the man on the way to the gym.

There are hand-painted taper candles from South Africa

and hand-crafted jewelry including a turquoise ring ($235).

There are pillows and scarves and wallets and bowls.

Soon, hand-made felt decorations will arrive from Tibet for the holidays, Sabel-Sheehan says, “just to make it a little unique.”

The shop’s name, she says, can have many meanings. A field, she explains, is a place to build a home or to gather, a place to revel in colors or space, to think about nature and life.

“I connect with that,” Sabel-Sheehan says. “A field, like a store, could be a field for anybody.”

Field is at 2095 Boston Post Road. It’s open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays.Call 914-834-0601 or visit the shop’s Web site.
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Hope you enjoyed this glimpse into Field. A version of this blog posting will appear Monday in the Life & Style section of The Journal News — and here on LoHud.com — when Field is my next “Shop of the Week.”