Voted “Best of the Bay” every year since 2001, FLAX art & design is San Francisco’s oldest and best-loved retail art supply store. FLAX has been serving the creative community in the Bay Area since 1938. Centrally located on Market Street in San Francisco, the store holds 20,000 square feet of art and craft supplies - brushes, paints, canvases, thousands of different papers, stationery, fine pens, frames, albums, journals, kids’ stuff and unique gifts - a veritable treasure-trove. As customers often say, FLAX is a “candy store for the creative".