Frankie & Jo’s isn’t your normal ice cream shop. Owners Autumn Martin and Kari Brunson

Frankie & Jo’s isn’t your normal ice cream shop. Owners Autumn Martin and Kari Brunson have created something truly inspired with their full-of-flavor, plant-based ice cream. The collaboration between Autumn and Kari was meant to be. Autumn has been a pastry chef and chocolatier for the past 14 years while Kari has been a plant-based chef for the last 7 years. Their goal was to create flavorful, colorful ice cream sourced from animal friendly products, free of any stabilizers. With Frankie & Jo’s product being a hit, they then started searching for a place to open shop in Seattle, WA.
Autumn and Kari found an open storefront in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle. They were drawn to the diverse and culturally rich neighborhood, and the neighborhood seemed to be smitten with their ice cream in return. A few months before opening their shop, Autumn and Kari enlisted the help of Seattle-based architect and interior designer Katie Hackworth of H2 Design + Build to design Frankie & Jo’s. “I quickly got to work interpreting their goal of creating a space that transported their Seattle customer to a sun-filled Palm Springs day,” Katie shares. “As in all of my designs, authenticity and simplicity took the lead as I developed the fresh, clean palette, finishes and patterns you see throughout the space.” And Palm Spr...