To his wife, David Price is a Renaissance man.

A Freeland artist, building designer, avid cyclist and now curator of artisanal goods for his new Langley store and studio, Price deflects the praise. Being good at several things was born out of necessity, he says.

“To make a living out here you have to do multiple things,” he said in his new First Street store, edit (the store’s name is lower case).

The small but open space features only a handful of products made by someone other than Price. All are chosen — curated, as his wife Holly Price says — because of the stories behind them, and all are items used by the couple.

Much like the encaustic art pieces on the walls of edit, every wood block, book, jar of Whidbey-made sea salt and shampoo speaks to the authenticity of its creation and creator. They’re also selected because the Prices found them to be evocative in the same manner as one of Price’s works which may recall a childhood trip to Hood Canal or a daily ferry trip home to Whidbey.

The store brings all of Price’s interests together to a single location. Inside edit he works on his building designs, puts his art on display in his own gallery and offers a small selection of goods that he and wife Holly believe in.

“That was the main thing, to bring those things together,” Price said.

As 20-year residents of South Whidbey, the Prices have seen the area change quite a bit. Of course, they’ve been instrumental in some of those changes. David Price was an owner of the Langley-based design firm Flat Rock Productions for 10 years until 2011, during which time he created some of the more iconic buildings on South Whidbey, such as the Bayview Cash Store, Useless Bay Coffee Co. in Langley and the new Whidbey Telecom building in Freeland. The style of articulated store fronts to a single structure is not unique to Price, he admits, but it is a bit of a signature when browsing through his online catalog of past projects.

Now, the Prices have taken the aesthetic of their design work and brought it into edit. The shop opened last weekend, less than a month after the space became available. Holly Price said they made the decision to move in less than a day after they visited.

Developments in Langley and the specific storefront space’s availability were reasons the Prices opened edit. Seeing the success of fellow animation studio/shop Kalakala, which will open a mercantile on Second Street, the Prices felt compelled to join what they see as an upswing for Langley. Inspiration also came from their son — a junior at Santa Clara University — for getting rid of his television and video game console. That prompted them to simplify their lives and seek a look and feel of handcrafted goods with character, like the wood cutting boards made by Clinton-based Turnco Wood Goods, one of which had nail hole marks and a burn mark still visible from its former use.

Everything in their store has been used by the Prices. Shampoo, soap and tea from Bay Area-based Juniper Ridge are particular favorites, though they did pass on putting up a new tea flavor because they had not yet tried it.

“We have to edit at some point,” Holly Price said.

Edit’s retail offerings are the most visible part of the location with all of the street-side window filled with wood goods, alluring scented candles and a few books. However, that will likely be the smallest part of the business inside.

Price continues to design buildings, primarily homes, and will do some of that work inside the store at his standing desk and nearby work table.

Hours to visit the shop will be a bit haphazard other than weekends, the Prices said. The best way to know is to check their website www.edit

whidbey.com. Despite being a designer with an affinity for form and function and selling a biking book called “The Rules” in which the author lays out the highly specific guidelines to being a proper cyclist, Price himself is not much for a uniform work schedule.

“I’m not regimented at all, other than my morning coffee,” David said.