What it’s actually like
Walk Main Street west from Marshall Way and the windows are bronzes, Western oils, turquoise and abstract canvases — and then, at 7022 East Main, a room full of living plants. Pearson & Company is the gallery row’s one green storefront, and it has been in the plant business in Scottsdale since 1983. The company says its Old Town showroom is where it all started, which makes it one of the longer-lived businesses on a street where galleries change hands by the season.
It is not a garden center, and it is careful to say so. Pearson & Company calls itself an interior plantscape studio: its real work happens off the street, designing, installing and maintaining living plant installations for houses, hotels, restaurants, offices and healthcare campuses across the Valley, with technicians who visit weekly and a Plant Replacement Guarantee that swaps out anything that fails to thrive. The client list on its own site runs from resorts and law firms to a Main Street neighbor, Paul Scott Gallery. Owner Scott Schaefer runs the business today.
The showroom is where the rest of us come in. It holds plants, pottery, vessels, art and decor — the pieces the studio uses on its jobs, chosen by people whose whole method is matching a plant to light, traffic and air rather than to a mood board. It is a calm room on a busy street, and it makes a good palate cleanser between galleries during the ArtWalk season, provided you come when it is actually open.
What to buy
A plant in the right pot. The studio’s own motto is the right plant, in the right vessel, in the right place, and the showroom is set up to sell exactly that pairing. Ask what will live in your room, not what looks best on the shelf.
A vessel on its own. Pottery and planters are half the stock, and a good pot is the thing visitors can actually carry home on a plane.
Art and decor. The showroom mixes art and decorative pieces in with the plants; on a gallery street, it is the least intimidating place to buy something for a wall or a shelf.
A consultation. For a whole house or an office, the studio starts with a free site visit and a proposal for plants and vessels before anything is installed.
Parking, timing and the practical stuff
The hours are the first thing to know. The showroom is open Tuesday through Thursday in the daytime and Friday until early afternoon; Saturday is by appointment, and Sunday and Monday it is closed. That means it is shut for most of Thursday’s evening ArtWalk and for the weekend crowds, so plan a weekday daytime stop or book ahead. The official site lists the current hours and takes appointment requests.
7022 East Main sits in the western half of the gallery row, between Goldwater Boulevard and Marshall Way, the core of the Main Street Arts District. Street parking on Main is short-term and usually taken; the free Civic Center garage off Drinkwater Boulevard is about a ten-minute walk, and the Old Town on foot note maps the route through the Old Town core. Plants and pottery are heavy and the sidewalk is long in July, so if you buy something big, ask about delivery.
Pair it with the galleries around it. Altamira Fine Art, Xanadu Gallery and Bonner David Galleries are a few doors east, and the courtyard at 7077 East Main, home to Royse Contemporary, is across Marshall Way.
Eat while you’re there
Chin Up Donuts is across the street at 7021 for a morning start. Růže Cake House and Jamie’s Bottle Shop share 7033 East Main, cake and coffee on one side and a glass of wine on the other. West across Goldwater Boulevard, Pizzeria Virtù, The House Brasserie and Craft 64 cover lunch and dinner, and Malee’s Thai Bistro, farther east at 7131, has fed the gallery row since 1987.
How it got here
Main Street west of Scottsdale Road became a gallery street over the 1960s and 1970s, as the West’s Most Western Town found winter residents with money and empty walls, and in 1975 the galleries began opening together on Thursday nights for what became the ArtWalk. By the early 1980s the street was established as the district’s Western and traditional half, with Marshall Way growing up as the contemporary side.
Pearson & Company was founded into that street in 1983. The company says its Old Town showroom is where it all started, and over the following four decades it grew from that single showroom into a studio of designers, installers and plant technicians working across Arizona. The record available to this page does not fix whether the business has always occupied 7022 East Main or how it got its name, so this page does not guess; what is clear is that it has been a Scottsdale business for more than forty years and that Main Street is its home today.
Its staying power says something about the district. Main Street has never been only galleries — antiques dealers and Native trading rooms shared the blocks with them for decades — and the 2026 Scottsdale Arts District guide still lists a cluster of interior and landscape design businesses alongside the art dealers. Pearson & Company is one of them: the shop that sells the living thing to put next to the painting.
The Main Street Arts District guide covers the whole gallery row, and the district’s oldest family room, Territorial Indian Arts & Antiques, is a short walk east at 7100 East Main.