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Rare Bird Interiors is owned & curated by Tallahassee native, Jackie Skelding. She opened her first shop, CURIO, located in Railroad Square Arts District in 2014 at the age of 21 and received her degree in Retail Merchandising, Product Development and Design from Florida State University the same year. She opened the first location of Rare Bird next door to CURIO in November 2021. Rare Bird’s popularity rapidly grew amongst locals and design-savvy buyers throughout the south. Her expansion to a second Rare Bird showroom in Midtown opened at 122 E Sixth Avenue in Tallahassee on March 15, 2024.
On May 10, 2024, multiple tornados hit Tallahassee and destroyed her fiancé’s shop, Talquin Trading Co and severely damaged her Railroad Square location of Rare Bird. Rather than re-opening her RRSQ location of Rare Bird after the destruction, she chose to give up her Railroad Square shop so Talquin Trading Co could re-open in that location and both Talquin Trading Co and Rare Bird could flourish.
In addition to curating for Rare Bird, Jackie also provides private sourcing, staging, and interior decorating services for residential and commercial spaces. She is a proud bonus-mom to two incredible kids and recently announced her newest venture, Skelding & Co., an antiquities and fine estate sales company that she owns with her fiancé, Gregg Pla.