Silverlake, Los Angeles Shopping; Silverlake, Los Angeles Stores

A+R

A+R equals good design. More bazaar than gallery, the shop stuffs a globe's worth of design objects in its modest space. Objects likes a handgun shaped vase, an agate candle holder, wood veneer placemats and crinkled ceramic cups.

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Bar Keeper

Having a well-appropriated bar is critical to any fun, urban domicile. Bar Keeper makes creating a perfect bar easier than ever before. Every imaginable bar accessory is within arms reach including everything from ultra-modern glassware to kitsch vintage '70s gear.

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Bittersweet Butterfly

Combining flowers, chocolates and lingerie? Why did no one think of this earlier. Bittersweet Butterfly certainly seems like the perfect Valentine's day gifting destination, but it's pretty darn delightful the rest of the year as well. The lingerie draws from a select group of European, American and even South American...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Clover

Clover must be a product of people who didn't know what kind of store they wanted to open. Should we open a clothing store? There is a nice selection of hip women's clothing and shoes along with a small men's area. Should we open a design store? You'll find funky tableware, cool vases, bar accessories and more. Maybe a...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Dean

Some people have a very specific idea of what they want and they're willing to search high and low to find it. And when they can't find it, they're willing to open the factory to make it. In the case of Danny Dean Davis of Dean it was the search for "a wide leather watch band with a vintage feel yet modern...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Edna Hart

Three rooms that speak to three different aspects of womanhood, Edna Hart offers knitting implements in one room, children's stuff in another and jewelry in the third. It's hard to say which room is the greatest--the knitting classes are fun and teach you how to make the up-to-the-moment items rather than Yet Another Scarf(tm). The...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Giant Robot

If Giant Robot the magazine began as an ode to Asian pop culture, then Giant Robot the store is now a mecca for the same. Alongside copies of the latest issue of GR you'll find all sorts of pop-y Asian items (and some American stuff that is just cool enough to be sold in Japan). Comic and design books, funky accessories, stickers and...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Gogosha Optique

Reader Suggested: The bright, modern, new eyewear boutique on the east side features high-end international designers like Theo, Orgreen, and Anne et Valentin. Visionary Julia Gogosha Clark fits your frames based on your physical characteristics, lifestyle, and personality. She’ll offer up several pairs with proper proportions, but the...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Kelly Green

Honestly, the fact that the furniture, paper goods, home accessories and tableware at Kelly Green are eco-friendly are just a bonus. We just like them because they look cool. Cards are cute, tableware is stylish, furniture is modern, yet warm.

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Kicks

You don't want the same boring sneakers you can find in any mall. But you're not exactly willing to stand in line for 6 hours for one of 50 artist/sneaker manufacturer collaboration shoes that the more pedigreed sneaker stores specialize in. If this describes your predicament, then Kicks is for you. The store has a large selection...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Lake

Delicate, somewhat romantic clothing, an apothecary stocked with natural and organic products, and a smattering of distinctive home accessories constitute the ecosystem of Lake. The well-edited collection of clothing and shoes are perfect for a relaxed sunny day but special enough for a hot night out. Apothecary items look good enough to eat.

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Lawson-Fenning

If ever a furniture shop encapsulates the eclectic, often contradictory aspects of the Los Angeles area, Lawson-Fenning is it. Consider that the city is ground zero for Hollywood Regency, was the longtime home and workplace of Ray and Charles Eames, and hosts a bright crop of modernist architects and designers and it makes the Lawson-Fenning...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Le Pink

Sitting on shelves and stands, tables and trays are le pink, le brown, le green, even le black. Stocking a clever mix of bath and beauty products and candy, Le Pink is a wonder for the senses. Each niche bath or beauty line (there are dozens in all) is packaged in a unique way, with its own color scheme, its own shape of bottles and boxes....

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Matrushka

Made in China. Made in Malaysia. Made in the Federated States of Micronesia. While we appreciate the forces that permit our stores to sell T-shirts for $9.99, we also worry about becoming sweatshop owners by proxy. Matrushka gives us a chance to wear hip, affordable clothing without the moral dilemma. Most of the clothes are designed and...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Now/Again

Furniture stores tend to focus on one era--somehow not seeing the Queen Anne with the Barcelona. Fortunately, the folks at Now/Again understand man's predilection towards mixing and matching. The store has managed to find the beautiful and stylish in every era. Even if you're into 18th century antiques, it's hard not appreciate...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Panty Raid

In the olden days, towns had a general store, a blacksmith and a barber to cover all the retail bases. Fast forward to the future, to another town, with a town lingerie store (across the street from the town wine store and the town record shop, by the way). Panty Raid is the ideal lingerie store for the town of Silver Lake. Though the store...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

ReForm School

The cottage that houses ReForm School could easily pass as an old-time school house and it is bland, mundane homes that are the pupils. An almost daunting selection of creative output is on display, the collective work of dozens of promising artists and designers. Name it you'll find it from beautiful canvases to perky pillows, clever...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Rubbish

Too often "vintage" furniture stores come with a staff that wouldn't know wood from MDF. Fortunately, Rubbish offers a bit more depth-in furniture and staff. The furniture definitely speaks to a classy, modern sensibility. These are items for the home of someone who wants more than a trendy chair, but rather appreciates...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Secret Headquarters

Remember the comic books shops with dingy carpet floors and merchandise covering every square in of the store? Secret Headquarters is not one of those. Try dark hardwood floors, comic art on the walls and the fit and furniture of an old school library. In a warm, inspiring space you get an interesting cross-section of what's happening in...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Undefeated

The sight of several burly men gawking at and drooling over shoes may make you think you're in a bizarro world, but that's just what happens everyday at Undefeated. The store stocks a couple dozen pairs of cool sneakers, displayed like the scarce commodities that they are. Many of the kicks are imported limited edition models not...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Vamp Shoes

Vamp welcomes the vamp, the girlie-girl, the city girl and the indie chick, any girl really that appreciates cute shoes (and other accessories). Simple black boots to colorful wedges, delicately woven flats to chunky platforms--the variety is delightfully diverse. While there are some pricier labels, Vamp focuses on affordable accessories.

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Yolk

There's a good chance that any two adjacent design items at Yolk were produced thousands of miles apart, are made of completely different materials, and are in completely different price ranges. Such is the global, frenetic world of product design the Yolk does well to keep up with. Atop and abound a most modern and serious line of modern...

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

Zanzabelle

For children and the child in all of us, Zanzabelle is a magical little cottage. First thing's first, get yourself a cone of ice cream. Then, take your pick among old time candies, cool little toys, quirky books, bottle of pop, pop design items and countless other products that will have you reminiscing of your salad days.

» Full Details Open Link in New Window

A+R

Bar Keeper

Bittersweet Butterfly

Clover

Dean

Edna Hart

Giant Robot

Gogosha Optique

Kelly Green

Kicks

Lake

Lawson-Fenning

Le Pink

Matrushka

Now/Again

Panty Raid

ReForm School

Rubbish

Secret Headquarters

Undefeated

Vamp Shoes

Yolk

Zanzabelle

Elsewhere

Sites

Blogs