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When a local artist wanted to do an art installation by rearranging all the books in a bookstore by color, Adobe Books agreed and the result was magical. Can you imagine a corporate store ever...
It's a fair bet that most of wont get to visit Africa in our lifetime, but that doesn't mean we can't get a taste of immense cultural richness of the continent. Enter Amaridian,...
Do you really need a 150,000 square foot mega-bookstore to have something for everybody? Arundel Books proves that you don't. The store stocks new, used and rare books but does so in way as...
For many in the fine art world, functional art is anathema. For Bluebottle functional art seems a perfect, easy opportunity to introduce people to talented local artists. Come in to look at a...
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Dope kicks and art gallery.
Graffiti art meet fine art. Before Crewest we more used to seeing graffiti on freeway overpasses and building faces. The airy, shop/gallery is a one stop shop for graffiti art. There are paints and...
There's a subtle art to picking the perfect coffee table book--it must be substantive, but easy to digest, intriguing, yet relatable. David Mirvish Books has about a thousand iterations of...
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Our mandate is to show the individual handmade works by over 100 Canadian emerging artists/craftspeople/designers contributing to contemporary material and visual culture. There is everything from...
Equator Books is one of the most beautiful bookstores you're likely to come across. The center of the tall, airy store includes a gallery wall featuring monthly exhibitions of original...
Think of Family as the official library of a sprawling, makeshift family of artists from Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, or Tokyo. Here the staggering creative output of the talented group is...
A few steps away from the hustle bustle of Newbury Street lies a gothic, multi-denominational church's dusty storeroom. Gargoyles, Grotesques, and Chimeras is truly a store unlike any other....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Here Gallery showcases indie designers, zines and more. They also have a gallery that features many up and coming artists!
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By far one of the coolest (and least pretentious) stores in downtown San Diego. They carry a pretty fresh collection of T-shirts, sweatshirts, handmade prints, and other accessories (such as...
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This place is cool. Tons of small-run shirts, posters, "stuff" like playing cards, etc... The theme is street art and there are monthly gallery events to bring all the artists together.
Begun as a humble comic book store, Taschen has become an unrivaled publisher and seller or art and design books. Taschen's lavishly illustrated titles display a blatant disregard for how much...
It's a good bet you might get lost once or twice on your way to Lost Art Salon. But that's somewhat appropriate considering you're going to a gallery that celebrates unheralded...
Lotus suggests Asia, Bleu suggests France and in the case of Lotus Bleu both suggestions are accurate. Lotus Bleu brings together art, textiles and home accents from Southeast Asia and France. The...
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Great furniture store featuring local design stars, including one-of-a-kind and custom pieces.
There was a time when being an artist meant canvas and oils, marble and chisels. That was then. Magic Pony is now. The store and gallery is a showcase of young, creative people and the work they...
LA isn't exactly known as a museum town but is known as a shopping town. So it makes sense that the Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) store would be tack sharp. Next to prints and...
Needles & Pens shows us you don't need a book deal to publish, nor a sales rep and a studio to make clothes. This is creativity at a more personal, DIY level. Needles is led by co-owner...
Without the space of more well-to-do cultural institutions, the New Museum shop aims for maximum impact. The main attraction is naturally the wall of art books and magazines. The cosmopolitan,...
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I think it should be added because it has amazing prints and art books as well as bags, t-shirts, and other items promoting independent Asian artists. It is also one of the few art stores in its area.
Walking into OKOK is like discovering a new culture--well, more like a sub-culture. This is the wonderful world of a group of creative, productive independent artists and designers. The gallery...
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The Paper Boat brings Milwaukee shoppers the best of independent artists, crafters and designers including sublime stitching, happy owl glass, molly mast, blind hen, polaire, small things designs,...
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...
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I believe that our store would make a nice addition to your store guide based on the other stores that you have listed. Retropia offers a wide variety of antique and mid century furniture,...
It has the bright lighting and the white walls, but that's pretty much all Roq La Rue has in common with a typical art gallery. The space focuses on the type of underground art that by and...
If you fancy an object at Rose, may we suggest you buy it right there, because chances are you're not going to see it anywhere else. This is one shop that is curated in the truest sense of...
The toys at Rotofugi certainly wont propagate body image issues, unless little girls wishing they looked more like red troglodytes becomes a problem. The designer toys gallery collects some of...
The cousin of Seattle jewelry and accessories store Fancy, Schmancy carries items that are fancy in their own way. Intricate, clever urban vinyl toys are the star of the show, but there are also...
An unpretentious hipster closet is how we think of Show Pony. In a walk-in closet of a space are clothing, accessories and artwork from an intrepid group of local artists and designers. Racks...
Soap Plant/Wacko is the only kind of art gallery fit for La-La Land. Sure there are a few demure rooms of hardwood-floored, white-walled gallery space. But that is among a huge store of...
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Somos carries a wide array of art-related products from, urban vinyl toys, designer plush toys, art books and magazines, artist T-shirts, homewares, accessories, art prints, and original art....
Competing with superstores and online shops with impossibly large warehouses is useless if you're a small bookseller so Spoonbill & Sugartown did the only thing it could do: focus. Art...
Indeed, the design and art on display at Spring is as crisp and fresh as a spring day. All around are dozens of examples of cool, clever, modern design that you likely have not seen before. We...
The room is about the only thing that's square at Square Room. The intimate gallery is filled with nature-inspired art and objects. This could be a raven sculpture hanging from the ceiling...
If you put a general bookstore in the hands of an artist, St. Mark's Bookshop is what you would get. Among the black shelving and exposed ducting are a nice selection of new fiction and...
Who would know better what the hottest toys are, who the most talented designers and artists are, who to see about designing a mean looking T-shirt, than a store that's an arm of a magazine...
Begun as a humble comic book store, Taschen has become an unrivaled publisher and seller or art and design books. Taschen's lavishly illustrated titles display a blatant disregard for how much...
Begun as a humble comic book store, Taschen has become an unrivaled publisher and seller or art and design books. Taschen's lavishly illustrated titles display a blatant disregard for how much...
Begun as a humble comic book store, Taschen has become an unrivaled publisher and seller or art and design books. Taschen's lavishly illustrated titles display a blatant disregard for how much...
Begun as a humble comic book store, Taschen has become an unrivaled publisher and seller or art and design books. Taschen's lavishly illustrated titles display a blatant disregard for how much...
Start with the wall of books. Tate Modern, the venerable venue of modern art that it is, is not content to merely sell tote bags, T-shirts and prints. The wall of books runs the entire length of...
Super-who? Spider-what? If superhero comic book shops provide an elementary education of the comic book world, consider The Beguiling as the doctoral program. In a crowded, somewhat chaotic space...
If the Experience Music Project and the Seattle Public Library didn't convince you, Velocity Art & Design should settle the issue: Seattle is a modern design friendly sort of town. The...
Many a jewelry store fancies itself a "gallery", its wares "art", but Velvet Da Vinci is one of the few we've seen where this classification isn't the least bit of a...
Adding the word "folk" in front of art, too often serves as an excuse of sorts. As in, please excuse the generic, kitschy, poorly executed nature of this art. Go to Yard Dog to see what...
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Adobe Books
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When a local artist wanted to do an art installation by rearranging all the books in a bookstore by color, Adobe Books agreed and the result was magical. Can you imagine a corporate store ever agreeing to such a thing? The delightful bookstore with an art gallery in the back is a space where books, art and people can peacefully coexist. First and foremost are thousands upon thousands of used,...
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Address:3166 16th Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-415-864-3936
Amaridian
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It's a fair bet that most of wont get to visit Africa in our lifetime, but that doesn't mean we can't get a taste of immense cultural richness of the continent. Enter Amaridian, conceived by a native South African and featuring the best in contemporary African art and craftsmanship. The selection is as diverse as the continent, featuring beautiful ceramics, grand chandeliers,...
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Address:31 Howard Street
New York NY 10013
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-212-334-2465
Hours: Mon: By Appointment Tue-Fri: 11-7 Sat: 12-6 Sun: Closed
Arundel
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Do you really need a 150,000 square foot mega-bookstore to have something for everybody? Arundel Books proves that you don't. The store stocks new, used and rare books but does so in way as to not artificially bulk up their shelves with any book they can get their hands on. Their limited retail space is filled with a nicely edited selection of titles from a variety of topics, though...
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Address:8380 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90048
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-323-852-9852
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11-6 Sun: Closed
Bluebottle Art Gallery and Store
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For many in the fine art world, functional art is anathema. For Bluebottle functional art seems a perfect, easy opportunity to introduce people to talented local artists. Come in to look at a coin purse, creative postcards and greeting cards and elegant letterpress coasters. Stay for the beautiful, intriguing art on the wall and the rotating exhibit of fine art in their loft space.
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Address:415 East Pine Street
Seattle WA 98122
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-206-325-1592
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Fri: 1-7 Sat-Sun: 12-6
Compound
Reader Suggested: Dope kicks and art gallery.
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Address:107 NW 5th Avenue
Portland OR 97207
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-503-796-2733
Hours: Mon-Sat: 12-8 Sun: 12-6
Crewest
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Graffiti art meet fine art. Before Crewest we more used to seeing graffiti on freeway overpasses and building faces. The airy, shop/gallery is a one stop shop for graffiti art. There are paints and caps, t-shirts and hoodies, books and posters, prints and canvases.
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Address:110 Winston Street
Los Angeles CA 90013
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-213-627-8272
Hours: Mon: By Appointment Tue-Thu: 12-7 Fri-Sat:12-8 Sun: 12-6
David Mirvish Books
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There's a subtle art to picking the perfect coffee table book--it must be substantive, but easy to digest, intriguing, yet relatable. David Mirvish Books has about a thousand iterations of the perfect coffee table book. For those in the art world it's an indispensable resource. For the rest of us it's a fascinating place to browse photography-heavy volumes for hope of finding...
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Address:596 Markham Street
Toronto ON M6G 2L8
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-416-531-9975
Hours: Mon-Wed: 10-6 Thu-Fri: 10-7 Sat-Sun: 11-6
Distill
Reader Suggested: Our mandate is to show the individual handmade works by over 100 Canadian emerging artists/craftspeople/designers contributing to contemporary material and visual culture. There is everything from clothing, jewellery and accessories to ceramics, glass, furniture to paintings, mixed media and sculpture.
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Address:55 Mill Street
Building 56
Toronto ON M5A 3C4
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-416-304-0033
Equator Books
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Equator Books is one of the most beautiful bookstores you're likely to come across. The center of the tall, airy store includes a gallery wall featuring monthly exhibitions of original artwork. The gallery space is flanked on either side by long, tall bookshelves. One side holds used art, design and architecture titles, sold in collectable condition, wrapped with a protective archival...
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Address:1103 Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Venice CA 90291
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-310-399-5544
Hours: Mon-Sun: 10-10
Family
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Think of Family as the official library of a sprawling, makeshift family of artists from Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, or Tokyo. Here the staggering creative output of the talented group is cataloged and celebrated. Hard to come by art books are the bread and butter of the shop--inspiring, beautifully illustrated titled line shelves and are stacked on tables. Then there are the...
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Address:436 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90036
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-323-782-9221
Hours: Mon-Sun: 12-9
Gargoyles, Grotesques and Chimeras
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A few steps away from the hustle bustle of Newbury Street lies a gothic, multi-denominational church's dusty storeroom. Gargoyles, Grotesques, and Chimeras is truly a store unlike any other. The space is full of gothic, often religious, artifacts and oddities. There are gargoyles, opulent candelabras, crucifixes, eerie paintings and postcards. Add to this some dark instrumental music...
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Address:
262 Newbury Street
Boston MA 02116
Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-617-536-2362
Hours: Call ahead.
Giant Robot
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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 stationary, cooky toys and figurines and strange plush...
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Address:618 Shrader Street
San Francisco CA 94117
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-415-876-4773
Hours: Mon-Fri: 11:30-8 Sat: 11-8 Sun: 12-7
Giant Robot
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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 stationary, cooky toys and figurines and strange plush...
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Address:2015 Sawtelle Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90025
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-310-478-1819
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11:30-8 Sun: 12-6
Giant Robot
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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 stationary, cooky toys and figurines and strange plush...
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Address:4017 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90029
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-323-662-4752
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11:30-7 Sun: 12-7
Giant Robot
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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 stationary, cooky toys and figurines and strange plush...
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Address:437 East 9th Street
New York NY 10009
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-212-674-4769
Hours: Mon-Thu: 12:30-8:30 Fri-Sat: 12-9 Sun: 12-7
GR2
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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 stationary, cooky toys and figurines and strange plush...
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Address:2062 Sawtelle Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90025
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-310-445-9276
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11:30-8 Sun: 12-6
Here
Reader Suggested: Here Gallery showcases indie designers, zines and more. They also have a gallery that features many up and coming artists!
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Address:108 Stokes Croft
Bristol
BS1 3RU
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 44-(0)11-7942-2222
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sat: 12:30-6:30 Sun: Closed
Igloo Shop
Reader Suggested: By far one of the coolest (and least pretentious) stores in downtown San Diego. They carry a pretty fresh collection of T-shirts, sweatshirts, handmade prints, and other accessories (such as limited-edition skateboards and ping-pong paddles). For the record, I do not own this store–-I'm just a shopper.
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Address:640 West Beech Street #1A
San Diego CA 92101
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-619-234-5855
INOPERAbLE
Reader Suggested: This place is cool. Tons of small-run shirts, posters, "stuff" like playing cards, etc... The theme is street art and there are monthly gallery events to bring all the artists together.
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Address:Lindengasse 4/1a
1070 Vienna
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 43-699-1171-2925
Hours: Mon-Tue: 1-6 Wed: Closed Thu-Fri: 1-6 Sat: Closed
König.Taschen
Begun as a humble comic book store, Taschen has become an unrivaled publisher and seller or art and design books. Taschen's lavishly illustrated titles display a blatant disregard for how much the final product will cost and that's what makes them such worthy indulgences. The König.Taschen store, a combination with art book dealer Walther König, specializes in photography books.
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Address:Jebensstrasse 2
10623 Berlin
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 49-(0)30-31-80-85-58
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Wed: 10-6 Thu: 10-10 Fri-Sun: 10-6
Lost Art Salon
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It's a good bet you might get lost once or twice on your way to Lost Art Salon. But that's somewhat appropriate considering you're going to a gallery that celebrates unheralded artists of the early to mid 20th-century. The living room type space that should win some type of award for "Least Pretentious Galllery" covers its walls in unique, quirky and always...
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Address:245 South Van Ness Avenue Suite 303
San Francisco CA 94103
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-415-861-1530
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Wed: 12-5 Thu: 12-7 Fri-Sat: 12-5 Sun: Closed
Lotus Bleu
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Lotus suggests Asia, Bleu suggests France and in the case of Lotus Bleu both suggestions are accurate. Lotus Bleu brings together art, textiles and home accents from Southeast Asia and France. The interior designer owned shop is a treasure trove of ideas and objects. Most noteworthy are the textiles. Bedding, pillows, table linens and rugs display a daunting array of patterns, prints and...
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Address:327 Hayes Street
San Francisco CA 94102
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-415-861-2700
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sun: 12-6
Made
Reader Suggested: Great furniture store featuring local design stars, including one-of-a-kind and custom pieces.
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Address:867 Dundas Street West
Toronto ON M6J 1V6
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-416-607-6384
Hours: Mon: By Appointment Tue-Fri: 11-7 Sat: 11-6 Sun: Closed
Magic Pony
There was a time when being an artist meant canvas and oils, marble and chisels. That was then. Magic Pony is now. The store and gallery is a showcase of young, creative people and the work they do. They create impossibly clever and intricate vinyl toys. They publish poignant stories accompanied by sharp graphics. They print their own funky T-shirts. They conceive of asymmetric stuffed...
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Address:694 Queen Street West
Toronto ON M6J 1E7
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-416-861-1684
Hours: Mon-Thu: 12-7 Fri: 12-8 Sat: 11-7 Sun: 12-6
MOCA Store
LA isn't exactly known as a museum town but is known as a shopping town. So it makes sense that the Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) store would be tack sharp. Next to prints and books highlighting the museums collections are an especially savvy collection of design and fashion items. Bags made of nylon banners from Switzerland. Stationery from a Japanese cult brand. T-shirts...
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Address:250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90012
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-213-621-1710
Hours: Mon-Wed: 10:30-5:30 Thu: 10:30-8:30 Fri: 10:30-5:30 Sat-Sun: 10:30-6:30
Needles & Pens
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Needles & Pens shows us you don't need a book deal to publish, nor a sales rep and a studio to make clothes. This is creativity at a more personal, DIY level. Needles is led by co-owner Breezy Culbertson. Alongside T-shirts and such from other locals her clothing line consists of arty T-shirts and unique tops constructed from various vintage fabrics. Pens is led by co-owner and zine...
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Address:3253 16th Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-415-255-1534
New Museum
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Without the space of more well-to-do cultural institutions, the New Museum shop aims for maximum impact. The main attraction is naturally the wall of art books and magazines. The cosmopolitan, thought-provoking selection is worth a long, considered peruse. As for gift items, how about a commemorative plate with a scrawny naked man on it, a tea set that looks as if it's been splattered in...
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Address:235 Bowery
New York NY 10002
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-212-343-0460
Hours: Mon-Tue: Closed Wed: 12-6 Thu-Fri: 12-10 Sat-Sun: 12-6
Nucleus
Reader Suggested: I think it should be added because it has amazing prints and art books as well as bags, t-shirts, and other items promoting independent Asian artists. It is also one of the few art stores in its area.
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Address:30 West Main Street
Alhambra CA 91801
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-626-458-7482
Hours: Mon-Thu: 12-9 Fri-Sun: 11-10
OkOk
Walking into OKOK is like discovering a new culture--well, more like a sub-culture. This is the wonderful world of a group of creative, productive independent artists and designers. The gallery space hosts monthly shows featuring artists working in a variety of mediums. The retail space hosts art and design books and vinyl toys (so-called urban vinyl).
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Address:5107 Ballard Avenue NW
Seattle WA 98107
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-206-322-7523
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sat: 1-7 Sun: 12-7
Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery
Reader Suggested: The Paper Boat brings Milwaukee shoppers the best of independent artists, crafters and designers including sublime stitching, happy owl glass, molly mast, blind hen, polaire, small things designs, dotty speck, flying fish design and much much more. This is the first of its kind in the state of Wisconsin!
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Address:2375 South Howell Avenue
Milwaukee WI 53207
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-414-483-8462
Hours: Mon: 12-7 Tue: Closed Wed-Fri: 12-7 Sat: 12-6 Sun: 12-5
ReForm School
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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 T-shirts to inspiring design books, artful lamps to...
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Address:4014 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90029
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-323-906-8660
Retropia
Reader Suggested: I believe that our store would make a nice addition to your store guide based on the other stores that you have listed. Retropia offers a wide variety of antique and mid century furniture, lighting, decorative objects and fine art. What sets us apart from most vintage furniture stores is The Upstairs Gallery at Retropia, which exhibits 20th Century oil paintings, prints and sculpture, and is...
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Address:1442 North Highland Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90028
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-323-871-4000
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sun: 12-6:30
Roq La Rue
It has the bright lighting and the white walls, but that's pretty much all Roq La Rue has in common with a typical art gallery. The space focuses on the type of underground art that by and large could not find its way into a gallery previously. Here you'll find everything from porcelain M-16s to folk influenced art, but most prominent are the regular shows dedicated to Lowbrow/Pop...
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Address:2312 2nd Street
Seattle WA 98121
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-206-374-8977
Hours: Mon-Tue: Closed Wed-Thu: 1-6 Fri: 1-7 Sat: 1-6 Sun: Closed
Rose
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If you fancy an object at Rose, may we suggest you buy it right there, because chances are you're not going to see it anywhere else. This is one shop that is curated in the truest sense of the word. Owner Mark Rose searches far and wide for remarkable antiques, art and jewelry and places them in long rows and groupings in his store. A 19th century iron doll head, a'70s Italian vase,...
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Address:1225 Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Venice CA 90291
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-310-399-0040
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sun: 11-6
Rotofugi
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The toys at Rotofugi certainly wont propagate body image issues, unless little girls wishing they looked more like red troglodytes becomes a problem. The designer toys gallery collects some of wackiest, weirdest collection of plush and plastic around. But beyond this the shop does an admirable job of featuring relatively unknown names among the well-established and gets extra points for...
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Address:1953 West Chicago Avenue
Chicago IL 60622
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-312-491-9501
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sat: 12-8 Sun: 12-5
Schmancy
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The cousin of Seattle jewelry and accessories store Fancy, Schmancy carries items that are fancy in their own way. Intricate, clever urban vinyl toys are the star of the show, but there are also peculiar plushes, art books and comics, accessories and a monthly art show featuring cool urban artists.
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Address:1932 2nd Avenue
Seattle WA 98101
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-206-728-8008
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sat: 11-6 Sun: 12-5
Show Pony
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An unpretentious hipster closet is how we think of Show Pony. In a walk-in closet of a space are clothing, accessories and artwork from an intrepid group of local artists and designers. Racks overflow with jersey dresses, frilly tops made from vintage fabric, avant-garde jackets and so on. In one corner are a lineup of shoes like cute ribbon-adorned heels and vintage boots with hand-painted...
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Address:
1543 Echo Park Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90026
Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-213-482-7676
Hours: Mon-Tue: Closed Wed-Sun: 1-7 Sun: 1-6
Soap Plant/Wacko
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Soap Plant/Wacko is the only kind of art gallery fit for La-La Land. Sure there are a few demure rooms of hardwood-floored, white-walled gallery space. But that is among a huge store of schizophrenic randomness. There are long, sprawling shelves full of design, architecture, film and children's books. Then there is a wall of cooky action figures. Funky shower curtains. Pop-barware...
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Address:4633 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90027
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-323-663-0122
Hours: Mon-Wed: 11-7 Thu-Sat: 11-9 Sun: 12-6
Somos Media
Reader Suggested: Somos carries a wide array of art-related products from, urban vinyl toys, designer plush toys, art books and magazines, artist T-shirts, homewares, accessories, art prints, and original art. Genres span street art, graffiti, lowbrow art, pop surrealism, abstract, pop art, etc.
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Address:430 Salinas Street
Salinas CA 93901
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-831-422-9200
Hours: Mon-Fri: 12:30-7 Sat: 12:30-5 Sun: By Appointment
Spoonbill & Sugartown
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Competing with superstores and online shops with impossibly large warehouses is useless if you're a small bookseller so Spoonbill & Sugartown did the only thing it could do: focus. Art and design in its many forms (film, photography, architecture, painting) are the focus of a new and used book selection that includes everything from rare, hard-to-find design titles to hip magazines....
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Address:218 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11211
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-718-387-7322
Hours: Mon-Sun: 10-10
Spring
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Indeed, the design and art on display at Spring is as crisp and fresh as a spring day. All around are dozens of examples of cool, clever, modern design that you likely have not seen before. We should know, we've been to dozens of designs at this point and we didn't recognize a majority of the pieces. No, spring bypasses the usual dozen European design manufacturers and instead brings...
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Address:126a Front Street
Brooklyn NY 11201
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-718-222-1054
Square Room
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The room is about the only thing that's square at Square Room. The intimate gallery is filled with nature-inspired art and objects. This could be a raven sculpture hanging from the ceiling or diorama-like boxes filled with lengths of tree branch. Glass vases resemble sea urchins, while jewelry incorporates coral. If that isn't natural enough for you, how about real objects from...
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Address:910 East Pike Street
Seattle WA 98122
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-206-267-7120
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sat:11-7 Sun: 12-6
St. Mark's Bookshop
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If you put a general bookstore in the hands of an artist, St. Mark's Bookshop is what you would get. Among the black shelving and exposed ducting are a nice selection of new fiction and nonfiction with a strong emphasis on design, art, and architecture books. There is also a comprehensive selection of foreign and domestic newspapers and magazines.
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Address:31 3rd Avenue
New York NY 10003
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-212-260-7853
Hours: Mon-Sat: 10-12 Sun: 11-12
Super7
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Who would know better what the hottest toys are, who the most talented designers and artists are, who to see about designing a mean looking T-shirt, than a store that's an arm of a magazine covering the world it inhabits. The Super7 store is just that. A side project of Super7 magazine, which covers Japanese toys, art and design, the shop is adeptly merchandised with toys (from classic...
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Address:1628 Post Street
San Francisco CA 94115
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-415-409-4700
Hours: Mon-Thu: 12-7 Fri: 12-8:30 Sat: 11-8:30 Sun: 11-7
Taschen
Begun as a humble comic book store, Taschen has become an unrivaled publisher and seller or art and design books. Taschen's lavishly illustrated titles display a blatant disregard for how much the final product will cost and that's what makes them such worthy indulgences.
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Address:Hohenzollernring 28
50672 Cologne
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 49-(0)22-12-57-33-04
Hours: Mon-Sat: 10-8 Sun: Closed
Taschen
Begun as a humble comic book store, Taschen has become an unrivaled publisher and seller or art and design books. Taschen's lavishly illustrated titles display a blatant disregard for how much the final product will cost and that's what makes them such worthy indulgences.
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Address:2 Rue de Buci
75006 Paris
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 33-(0)1-40-51-79-22
Hours: Mon-Thu: 11-8 Fr-Sat: 11-12
Taschen
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Begun as a humble comic book store, Taschen has become an unrivaled publisher and seller or art and design books. Taschen's lavishly illustrated titles display a blatant disregard for how much the final product will cost and that's what makes them such worthy indulgences.
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Address:107 Greene Street
New York NY 10012
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-212-226-2212
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11-8 Sun: 12-7
Taschen
Begun as a humble comic book store, Taschen has become an unrivaled publisher and seller or art and design books. Taschen's lavishly illustrated titles display a blatant disregard for how much the final product will cost and that's what makes them such worthy indulgences.
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Address:354 North Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills CA 90210
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-310-274-4300
Hours: Mon-Sat: 10-7 Sun: 12-5
Tate Modern Shop
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Start with the wall of books. Tate Modern, the venerable venue of modern art that it is, is not content to merely sell tote bags, T-shirts and prints. The wall of books runs the entire length of the oblong space. Titles cover art from all its angles: theory, criticism, showcase or rumination. The remaining space is filled with the typical museum shop fare: bags, jewelry, prints and...
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Address:Bankside
London SE1 9TG
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 44-(0)20-7401-5167
Hours: Mon-Thu: 10-6 Fri-Sat: 10-10 Sn: 10-6
The Beguiling
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Super-who? Spider-what? If superhero comic book shops provide an elementary education of the comic book world, consider The Beguiling as the doctoral program. In a crowded, somewhat chaotic space is a worldly intersection of the coolest comic books, graphic novels, zines and alternative art books you're going to see in one shop. Head upstairs for golden and silver age comics and a giant...
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Address:601 Markham Street
Toronto ON M6G 2L7
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-416-533-9168
Hours: Mon-Thu: 11-7 Fri: 11-9 Sat: 11-7 Sun: 12-6
Velocity Art & Design
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If the Experience Music Project and the Seattle Public Library didn't convince you, Velocity Art & Design should settle the issue: Seattle is a modern design friendly sort of town. The store is a vivacious and varied collection of furniture, accessories, personal items and art. Velocity understands that modern doesn't need to mean scary looking furniture in bright colors....
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Address:2122 2nd Avenue
Seattle WA 98121
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-206-781-9494 or 1-866-781-9494
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sat: 11-6 Sun: Closed
Velvet da Vinci
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Many a jewelry store fancies itself a "gallery", its wares "art", but Velvet Da Vinci is one of the few we've seen where this classification isn't the least bit of a stretch. The sparse space is dotted with cases filled with some of the most interesting, unique jewelry you'll ever see. Plastic, all sorts of metals, glass and various stones all make an...
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Address:2015 Polk Street
San Francisco CA 94109
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-415-441-0109
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sat: 12-6 Sun: 12-4
Yard Dog
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Adding the word "folk" in front of art, too often serves as an excuse of sorts. As in, please excuse the generic, kitschy, poorly executed nature of this art. Go to Yard Dog to see what folk art is really about. The folk art gallery presents the genre at its very best--as the art of people outside the art world who had something to say and used whatever means and methods they had...
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Address:1510 South Congress Avenue
Austin TX 78704
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-512-912-1613
Hours: Mon-Fri: 11-5 Sat: 11-6 Sun: 12-5
