Our History

Approximately 4.6 billion years ago (or more accurately in 1996), Jon Clark had a vision for the planet: to blend his passion for environmental policy with high-style home furnishings. He spent a number of years traveling and meeting artists who create stylish yet functional items with recycled, found, organic, or sustainable materials.

With his discovered treasures, he set up shop in an old warehouse in Macungie and named the store “Home & Planet.” Two years later, Jon was asked to join in the revitalization of Southside Bethlehem, and moved his store to East Third Street.

In 2003, Home & Planet hopped across the street to its current, larger location in what was formerly a Woolworth’s. In true Home & Planet style, Jon brought the turn-of-the-century building back to life, exposing its original walls and tin ceiling, using the area that once was the store’s pharmacy as the artist’s gallery, and having the bathroom transformed into a work of bottle cap art by Mr. Imagination, a Bethlehem artist known around the world.

Home & Planet has also been featured in a documentary, Reclaiming Commerce, which was created as part of the 2006 Southside Film Festival.