Welcome to Ampersand
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Visit Us Everyday • 10am-6pm
2190 Market Street, San Francisco
For Event Design + Wedding Design, feel free to send us an inquiry here:
Weekly Deliveries
We have the pleasure of designing for several restaurants, offices, businesses, and personal homes all around San Francisco.
Our offerings include:
Unique, seasonally focused designs that change every week— either in vessels or wrapped bouquets
Complimentary consultation + walkthrough to gain insight into the site specific needs with a custom proposal
Weekly deliveries, maintenance + refreshing of arrangements
Complimentary vessel rentals, if applicable.
For more information and to set up service, please send us an inquiry below!
Learn About The Shop
We first established Ampersand in an unused adorable barn we painted teal in the Mission district of San Francisco back in 2014. Since then, we’ve had an epic glow-up, now located in the Castro-Duboce district in fantastic digs.
The shop is a space for creativity, community, and everything floral. We do our best to source as many locally grown materials as possible, every design is custom made with care, with a curated selection of goods you will love.
Ampersand is a hub for seekers of beautiful spaces, thoughtfully curated things, all the blooms, and good vibes. We are happy to design bouquets on the spot, discuss the current offerings— folks are also encouraged to get their hands dirty and choose blooms per stem at an affordable price point.
We also carry a lovely assortment of indoor plants in various sizes as well as home goodies such as candles, incense, home goods, thoughtful gifts, and more. We source beautiful totems to cherish for your home and space for yourself or as gifts for loved ones.
We have our hands and shears prepped for everything imaginable: from wrapped bouquets, vase arrangements, deliveries in San Francisco, walk-ins, event design work, weekly deliveries for cafes, restaurants, homes and more.
As a queer-owned business, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, inclusive, space for all.
Come say hi :)
About The Owners
Ampersand is founded by Emerson + Benjamin who met in San Francisco in 2012.
Starting + running a small flower business has been extremely fulfilling: they both desired to live a life full of beautiful things, both come from small business families, both desired to have an impact on their community, and they are equally inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit of autonomy, sweat, and tirelessly hustling on a labor-of-love. They pride themselves on being self-taught florists and business-owners and are delighted to be a part of what makes San Francisco a unique landscape of artists.
Emerson Boyle
Chief Creative Officer + Creative Virtuoso (he/him)
Hailing from a rural mountain town in Southern California, Emerson has a bachelor’s degree in English Literature, specializing in Irish Theater + Poetry, is a lifelong vegetarian, + spent most of his life prior to Ampersand dedicated to the arts with involvement in choir, dance, + poetry. In his spare time, he loves to spend time with his partner, Brian, and their needy children (two kitties), traveling, sampling well martinis (with a twist), and traversing down long wikipedia rabbit holes.
Benjamin Boso
Chief Financial Officer + Accountant Extraordinaire (he/him)
Hailing from the great sate of Ohio, Benjamin has a background in animal care and has been in San Francisco for almost twenty years — a bonafide local! In his spare time he loves to spend time with his family, dedicate time to the pursuit of acting and theatre, take long drives in his convertible, host friends at his Pinterest-worthy apartment, + find any excuse to redesign and or adjust the lighting in every room he walks into.
