Since 2018, Sandeep Salter has been the creative visionary behind Salter House, an artful Brooklyn outpost that features sustainable housewares, clothing and a cafe. She founded it with her husband, Carson Salter.
The shop focuses on using natural materials, with items like an organic cotton nightgown inspired by Sofia Coppola’s 2006 historical drama “Marie Antoinette,” linen towels made of flax and gingham cotton bloomers.
For Ms. Salter, 37, the longevity of Salter House is “completely entangled” with environmental sustainability. “We have a vested interest in avoiding ecological collapse,” she said. “Also, we’d like our daughters to grow up in a world that has preserved its natural landscapes!”
When she’s not designing clothes for Salter House, Ms. Salter is next door running Picture Room — an art gallery and community space, which she initially founded in 2014 with Sarah McNally of the McNally Jackson bookstore before going independent. She mostly curates private collections for clients.
Ms. Salter is originally from London and was immersed in the arts from a young age. Her father, who is from Punjab, India, and immigrated to Britain as a child, was a dancer and choreographer. Her mother, who is white and American, was also a dancer.
In 2006, Ms. Salter moved to New York and studied fine art at the Parsons School of Design. She later landed a job as an archivist and bibliographer and even ran a small bookstore before becoming an entrepreneur.
Ms. Salter lives in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn Heights with her husband of 11 years and their two daughters, Lowe, 12, and Eta, 9. For them, Sunday is “family day.”
FAMILY FUN I woke up around 8:30 a.m. or 9 a.m. The girls are good about letting me sleep in on Sundays. I like to stay in my pajamas late into the morning. At 10 a.m., I got up, still in pajamas, washed my face, had tea and started on scones. We were hanging out in PJs at home, and I was making scones and playing with the girls. The girls were wrestling around. Carson was out for a run, which is his morning routine most days.
DINER TIME After I made scones, we took a walk down to Montague Diner. A few friends of ours started it in our neighborhood. It feels really like home. I had pancakes. They make really good, gluten-free pancakes, and they have really good country, thick bacon. The girls always have waffles, pancakes and berries. My mum and dad joined us, and we had a family lunch like usual.
SHOP STOP We took a walk down to Salter House around noon, and we stayed for a good hour and a half. It’s a nice time for me to check in with the customers, hang out with our family and chat. Talking to customers and hanging out in the store is one of my favorite things. It makes me feel really nourished, happy and part of the community.
IN BLOOM Carson was also doing some planting. He maintains all our shop plants outside. He digs up small, wild plants and ground cover in the woods upstate, and then we’ll bring them down and plant them outside the shop. We had a local tulip farmer setting up outside the shop to sell tulips for the weekend. It was nice to have her gorgeous bouquets, making the corner feel really bright and bountiful. She’s very sweet, Lucy in the Sky Farm.
SUNDAY STROLL We were thinking we’d go down to the park, but it was so windy by the time we got to the corner of Atlantic and Hicks. We had a nice little walk on the Promenade. The girls played. They climb everything they can manage. We got home around 2:30 or 3 p.m.
BOOK BREAK I read with Eta. We read a story from “The Big Pink Book,” we call it. It’s Tomi Ungerer, a facsimile of Tomi Ungerer stories. Then we read by ourselves. I’m reading “Kitchen.” It’s a Japanese novel, and it’s very quirky and sensitive. Eta was reading a graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier, and Lowe was doing homework in my bedroom. We read for probably 45 minutes or an hour until 4 p.m.
SUNDAY ROAST We had a really nice meal. I started on dinner, and everybody else just kept playing and hanging out. I made roast chicken, roast veggies, potatoes, carrots, brussels sprouts — a nice, big Sunday roast. We had dinner around 5 p.m.
MOVIE NIGHT Right after dinner, we left all of our plates and went to BAM for a movie. We saw “The Legend of Ochi,” which was unbelievably good. It was completely magical. It’s about a young girl that meets a creature that is a misunderstood beast, and they become connected. It was lovely, a coming-of-age tale. It’s an A24 film, and I think they’re improving Western cinema so much.
PLAYTIME The movie ended at about 8:30 p.m. Everyone was so excited that I thought they might fall asleep on the way home in the car, but we were just talking nonstop and trying to do the Ochi sound. We got home more riled up than was helpful, and then the girls showered and went straight to bed. We didn’t do our usual reading routine because it was already 9 p.m. I get up at 6 a.m. to do school routines every morning during the week, so I’m usually in bed by 10 p.m. on a Sunday, if not before.
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