Meet Elizabeth Pecore, Founder and Owner

I live in Austin by way of small-town Texas, Mexico and New York. My career began in San Miguel de Allende, where I created and produced visual displays for Liverpool Department Stores, Mexico’s answer to Bloomingdales. 

When I returned to the States I landed in New York and served as the Promotions/Marketing Director for Conde Nast, Hachette Filipacchi and Hearst at several national magazines including Allure, Elle, Lucky, Mirabella and Marie Claire and created added-value programs for hundreds of advertisers -  luxury to mass and oversaw all brand/title related large-scale promotions and special events. 

With that experience, I returned to Austin where I co-founded P&K Grocery, a celebrated local gourmet food store, retail space and café, takeaway food, and event space. I then stepped away from brick-and-mortar retail and spent the next 10 years providing an assortment of customized creative services for a wide variety of clients. 

Basketcase Design is the culmination of roads less traveled, professional risks and circuitous life choices, combined with a life-long obsession with art, hardware stores and beautiful things.