Benthouse Creative

Woman's boutique, Sam's Shop, was a beloved Bent Street retailer of 47 years.     

Benthouse Creative is a new full-service branding and marketing agency on Bent Street in downtown Taos, NM. On a recent visit to Toas, I stumbled inside, only to discover I was walking in on a place of work rather than a shopping destination.

There’s an undeniable air of hospitality when you walk in. I also learned that Benthouse Creative shares its space with Abide Skincare upstairs, who double as one of the agency’s first clients.

If you’re starting to get a cozy, local energy from Benthouse Creative, you have good intuition:

Benthouse serves primarily local businesses across a broad cross-section of industries: Cid’s Food Market, Taos Charter School, Southwest Cannabis, Jones West, and Maria Samora Studio, to name a few.

Abide Skincare, a client Benthouse helped from the ground up, is now their upstairs neighbor, which they take as a marketplace success story. — Toas News, 2024

It’s nice to see Taos becoming a haven for creative talent that previously called major advertising cities home, and it's equally lovely to see more people recognizing that place matters when positioning Taos-based brands.

Benthouse’s work faces tension with the ambiguousness of the Southwest’s traditional marketing and iconography. For a long time, the approach has largely been to, “Stick a Kokopelli on it,” Seck joked. The agency works to create more distinctive impressions for their clients. — Toas News, 2024

I can’t wait to follow along as Benthouse continues to build roots with it’s local stable of clients.

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