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Emphasizing the marvelous in the mundane, Abodeon presents a collection of well-designed home furniture and accessories spanning continents and decades. Most items come with a short description...
We love the high-concept furnishings at The Future Perfect, but don't always like the high-concept prices. Enter A&G Merch. The adjacent space by the same owner collects modern, stylish...
American Studio Plus is going to look a bit intimidating from the outside. There are lots of sleek, modern accessories on display and the staff has a propensity towards wearing all black. But...
Reader Suggested:
It's pure, it's simple, it's totally stylish. Run by the brother of (fashion designer) Kostas Murkudis.
Reader Suggested:
More a gallery of the all time greatest of last century's furniture design than a store.
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...
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...
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...
When an inset, half-hidden store is packed with men and women, young and old, it's usually a sign that they're doing something right. In Atys' case, they're doing everything...
Writing about music may be like dancing about architecture, but writing about architecture seems as natural as dancing to the music. At least if the sheer number of architecture titles as...
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The store carries lines by Vivienne Westwood Anglomania and other cult labels. They also carry accessory lines by Martin Margiela and other less known labels (Erika Pena, Louis Moralis, King Baby)...
Reader Suggested:
The store carries lines by Vivienne Westwood Anglomania and other cult labels. They also carry accessory lines by Martin Margiela and other less known labels (Erika Pena, Louis Moralis, King Baby)...
With the proliferation of home-improvement shows it seems that if you have a thousand dollars and a can of paint you can turn any room into a designer showroom. For anyone who is looking for a...
With the proliferation of home-improvement shows it seems that if you have a thousand dollars and a can of paint you can turn any room into a designer showroom. For anyone who is looking for a...
Ever walk into a design store to find items that don't really seem to serve a purpose. And then you're told by a salesperson (assuming they even acknowledge your existence), that this...
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...
Imagine a museum where patrons are able to pick up any piece they like straight of the wall. The Design Museum shop provides as close to this experience as possible. The museum features exhibitions...
When you happen upon a design store and the salesperson (adorned in all black of course) encourages you to pick up items and fiddle with them you know you're on to something. This was exactly...
When you happen upon a design store and the salesperson (adorned in all black of course) encourages you to pick up items and fiddle with them you know you're on to something. This was exactly...
In a intriguing symbiotic retail relationship, ID carries beautiful, artful home accessories and one side of the store and a wall of eyeglasses to help, we suppose, see the objects clearly. Look...
Ige Design is more designer's store than design store. The centerpiece of the space is Helene Ige's distinctive furniture, featuring unique laminate insets. Modern table with a retro...
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,...
Some might say Kokon To Zai stocks clothes to go dancing in. We say, clothes at the boutique practically do the dancing for you. Drawing from the most daring, most enthusiastic (and often most...
Is it a New York furniture showroom you want? A massive space complete with massively expensive avant-garde furniture, conceptual design accessories and a demure staff clad in back? LIMN is...
Is it a New York furniture showroom you want? A massive space complete with massively expensive avant-garde furniture, conceptual design accessories and a demure staff clad in back? LIMN is...
Is it a New York furniture showroom you want? A massive space complete with massively expensive avant-garde furniture, conceptual design accessories and a demure staff clad in back? LIMN is...
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Great furniture store featuring local design stars, including one-of-a-kind and custom pieces.
Matter is high design objects without high design attitudes. Look for interesting lighting and bent-ply furnishings. Seek out unique vases, pillows, tableware, jewelry and other accessories....
In it's Manhattan incarnation (the original shopping being Brooklyn bred), Matter has grown up without forgetting where it came from. Exemplary design is the tie that binds the stores...
It makes sense that best modern museum in the country has the best museum store as well. The MoMa Store has taken the idea of a museum store to another level, augmenting the usual books and design...
It makes sense that best modern museum in the country has the best museum store as well. The MoMa Store has taken the idea of a museum store to another level, augmenting the usual books and design...
More museum of industrial design than design store, Moss displays its collection of exquisite modernist home accessories like artwork. The long, bright, sanitary space has several rows of products...
More museum of industrial design than design store, Moss displays its collection of exquisite modernist home accessories like artwork. Among the items are toasters, toothbrush holders, colanders...
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,...
OK is the one expression you really can't use to describe OK. Gorgeous, hip, beautiful, classy, stunning--these would do better. The gallery is an ode to exquisite design. Learn a thing or...
Go to Bilbao to see the Guggenheim, to Stockholm to see the "Twisting Torso." Then come to Peter Miller to learn who designed them, how they were built and why. The store stacks its...
Propeller is not just another nonsensical, hipper-than-thou store name. To us at least, it refers to the careers or promising young designer the store helps propel. The furniture and accessories...
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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Relish started in Portland, Oregon as a small emerging design retail brand almost 5 years ago. Our goal was to always remain innovative in curating design brands from all over the world, many...
Imagine if the faculty, students and alumni of the great design schools sold their wares at the school's gift shop--instead of T-shirts and mugs, they would sell the latest and greatest of...
Known for its dramatic, beautiful floral arrangements, Rose & Radish has turned its keen design sense to home design. Alongside flowers, their modern gallery space now presents an expertly...
Whether vintage, vintage reproduction, or new work, Scandinavian furniture designs have no shortage of stores dedicated to them. Scandinavian Details gives Scandinavian accessories their day in...
Scandinavian Grace features all the best of Scandinavian design in one simple, modern presentation. If the shop is a window in to the world of every day Scandinavian life then all we have to say is...
The store of San Francisco's pride-and-joy museum is, by extension, rather well appointed. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's (MOMA) store is stocked certainly with books and...
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...
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...
Design stores with fun stuff to look at are so passé. At Studio Brillantine, the design items look right back at you. Tin-Tin grins back at your from a tall glass, funny faces meet your gaze from...
Ask your local bookstore where the "retail design" or "typography" sections are and watch them return a blank stare. Ask the people at Swipe and they'll likely follow-up...
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 vision of the future presented to us in TV and movies always seems to involve one-piece body-hugging spandex suits and furnishings whose purpose is not outwardly apparent. We much prefer the...
Operating out of an impossibly small space, Tivoli Home showcases Scandinavian design in remarkable breadth and depth. The shop goes beyond the handful of Scandinavian manufacturers whose wares...
So you thought you were cool when you saw "Lost in Translation" before anyone else, but now the whole world has seen it. It's time to kick your Japano-phile induced coolness up a...
Twentieth rents its furniture for movie and TV sets with regularity and there are no shortage of pieces that are in the compact car price range. But that shouldn't stop you from stopping by...
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The store is set up like an apartment with every thing for sale. It is a wicked store and most of the products in it I have never seen before. The store has a sophisticated feel.
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...
Zakka is a one of a kind shop and gallery, collecting design books from many different design disciplines. Furthermore it keeps an office Japan and thus is in tune with what's happening in...
If you know anything about San Francisco, it's that a design store where everyone wears black turtlenecks will be a miserable failure. The owners of Zinc Details appreciate the wear flowers in...
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Abodeon
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Emphasizing the marvelous in the mundane, Abodeon presents a collection of well-designed home furniture and accessories spanning continents and decades. Most items come with a short description stating what you're looking at and why it's special. Like the classic '50s ice cream scoop, famous for its simplicity, or the vintage German glass bowl made of a special type of glass...
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Address:1731 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02138
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-617-497-0137
Hours: Mon-Wed: 10-6 Thu: 10-7 Fri-Sat: 10-6 Sun: 12-6
A&G Merch
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We love the high-concept furnishings at The Future Perfect, but don't always like the high-concept prices. Enter A&G Merch. The adjacent space by the same owner collects modern, stylish furniture and accessories that are more budget friendly. Everything from leather couches to loud melamine plates, pillows shaped like deer to damask trash bags will help add more style bang to your...
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Address:111 North 6th Street
Brooklyn NY 11211
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-718-388-1779
American Studio Plus
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American Studio Plus is going to look a bit intimidating from the outside. There are lots of sleek, modern accessories on display and the staff has a propensity towards wearing all black. But don't let that stop you from stepping in. The store is full of all the hip, stylish accessories that modern design stores like to carry without any of the snooty attitude. It's long display...
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Address:
2906 M Street NW
Washington DC 20007
Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-202-965-3273
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11-6 Sun: 1-5
Andreas Murkudis
Reader Suggested: It's pure, it's simple, it's totally stylish. Run by the brother of (fashion designer) Kostas Murkudis.
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Address:Münzstrasse 21
2nd Courtyard
10178 Berlin
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 49-(0)30-308-819-45
Hours: Mon-Fri: 12-8 Sat: 12-6 Sun: Closed
Appel Design
Reader Suggested: More a gallery of the all time greatest of last century's furniture design than a store.
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Address:Torstrasse 114
10119 Berlin
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 49-(0)30-325-181-60
Hours: Mon-Sat: 12-8 Sun: Closed
A+R
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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.
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Address:1716 Silver Lake Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90026
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-323-913-9558
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Fri: 12-7 Sat-Sun: 11-5
A+R
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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.
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Address:1121 Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Venice CA 90291
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-310-392-9128
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sat: 11-7 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
Atys
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When an inset, half-hidden store is packed with men and women, young and old, it's usually a sign that they're doing something right. In Atys' case, they're doing everything right. The industrial design outfit has put together one of the most compelling collections of items we have ever seen. Not content to just carry items from a few major European design houses and call...
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Address:2149-B Union Street
San Francisco CA 94123
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-415-441-9220
Hours: Mon-Sun: 11-6:30
Ballenford Books on Architecture
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Writing about music may be like dancing about architecture, but writing about architecture seems as natural as dancing to the music. At least if the sheer number of architecture titles as Ballenford Books on Architecture is any indication. What is an underappreciated section on a dusty corner of your typical general interest bookstore has been expanded to a massive selection of books on...
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Address:600 Markham Street
Toronto ON M6G 2L8
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-416-588-0800 or 1-888-588-0806
Hours: Mon: 12-5 Tue-Sat: 10-6 Sun: 12-5
Base
Reader Suggested: The store carries lines by Vivienne Westwood Anglomania and other cult labels. They also carry accessory lines by Martin Margiela and other less known labels (Erika Pena, Louis Moralis, King Baby) I find their taste quite stunning. The best part of their store is their taste in music. I find their selection superb (they edit it very well, and they have the monthly album pick service, where you...
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Address:939 Lincoln Road
Miami Beach FL 33139
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-305-531-4982
Hours: Mon-Fri: 11-10 Sat: 11-11 Sun: 11
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Reader Suggested: The store carries lines by Vivienne Westwood Anglomania and other cult labels. They also carry accessory lines by Martin Margiela and other less known labels (Erika Pena, Louis Moralis, King Baby) I find their taste quite stunning. The best part of their store is their taste in music. I find their selection superb (they edit it very well, and they have the monthly album pick service, where you...
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Address:Delano Hotel
1682 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach FL 33139
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-305-672-2000
Hours: Mon-Sun: 7-12
Builders Booksource
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With the proliferation of home-improvement shows it seems that if you have a thousand dollars and a can of paint you can turn any room into a designer showroom. For anyone who is looking for a reality check or a house that doesn't involve MDF, stop by Builders Booksource. The aptly named bookstore stocks titles focusing on the building trade--a phenomenal resource for contractors and...
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Address:1817 4th Street
Berkeley CA 94710
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-510-845-6874 or 1-800-843-2028
Hours: Mon-Sat: 8:30-7 Sun: 10-7
Builders Booksource
With the proliferation of home-improvement shows it seems that if you have a thousand dollars and a can of paint you can turn any room into a designer showroom. For anyone who is looking for a reality check or a house that doesn't involve MDF, stop by Builders Booksource. The aptly named bookstore stocks titles focusing on the building trade--a phenomenal resource for contractors and...
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Address:900 North Point Street
San Francisco CA 94109
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-415-440-5773
Hours: Mon-Sat: 10-8 Sun: 11-7
Composition
Ever walk into a design store to find items that don't really seem to serve a purpose. And then you're told by a salesperson (assuming they even acknowledge your existence), that this was seen in X magazine and if you don't want to buy one, well then you're pedestrian. I guess no one told them walking is good exercise. Composition appreciates our need for well-designed...
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Address:7180 West Alaska Drive
Lakewood CO 80226
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-303-894-0025
Hours: Mon-Sat: 10-7 Sun: 11-5
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
Design Museum Shop
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Imagine a museum where patrons are able to pick up any piece they like straight of the wall. The Design Museum shop provides as close to this experience as possible. The museum features exhibitions around contemporary design, be it industrial design, textiles, architecture or typography. Be it that many of the exhibitions where made to be sold, the museum shop becomes an ever revolving emporium...
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Address:28 Shad Thames
London SE1 2YD
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 44-(0)20-7940-8753
Hours: Mon-Sun: 10-5:45
Fitzsu
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When you happen upon a design store and the salesperson (adorned in all black of course) encourages you to pick up items and fiddle with them you know you're on to something. This was exactly our experience at Fitzsu. The sanitary appearing space displays items carefully, but also reminds us that all these bright shiny gadgets are supposed to be fun. The selection draws mainly from the...
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Address:7970 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90046
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-323-655-1908
Hours: Mon-Fri: 11-7 Sat-Sun: 12-5
Fitzsu
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When you happen upon a design store and the salesperson (adorned in all black of course) encourages you to pick up items and fiddle with them you know you're on to something. This was exactly our experience at Fitzsu. The sanitary appearing space displays items carefully, but also reminds us that all these bright shiny gadgets are supposed to be fun. The selection draws mainly from the...
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Address:875 North Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs CA 92262
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-760-320-8811
Hours: Mon: 11-5 Tue: Closed Wed-Sat: 11-5 Sun: 12-5
I.D.
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In a intriguing symbiotic retail relationship, ID carries beautiful, artful home accessories and one side of the store and a wall of eyeglasses to help, we suppose, see the objects clearly. Look for everything from sleek cufflinks to spare, minimal lighting to unique tableware. Opposite to these are an array of modern eyeglass from big name luxury brands.
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Address:3337 North Halsted Street
Chicago IL 60657
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-773-755-4343
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sat: 11-7 Sun: 12-5
Ige Design
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Ige Design is more designer's store than design store. The centerpiece of the space is Helene Ige's distinctive furniture, featuring unique laminate insets. Modern table with a retro touch can be custom made in a variety of shapes, patterns and colors. Ige also designs pillows, wall hangings and other accessories. Filling out the store are accessories from other great designers.
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Address:7382 Bevelry Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90036
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-323-939-2788
Hours: Mon-Sat: 10-6 Sun: 12-6
Kelly Green
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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.
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Address:4008 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90029
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-323-660-1099
Kokon To Zai
Some might say Kokon To Zai stocks clothes to go dancing in. We say, clothes at the boutique practically do the dancing for you. Drawing from the most daring, most enthusiastic (and often most youthful) designers from London and Europe, the clothing and accessories represent the very cutting edge of fashion design. Color-drenched dresses in mind-bending silhouettes, brooding gothic shirts with...
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Address:86 Golborne Road
London
W10 5P5
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 44-(0)20-8960-3736
LIMN
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Is it a New York furniture showroom you want? A massive space complete with massively expensive avant-garde furniture, conceptual design accessories and a demure staff clad in back? LIMN is everything you're looking for and more, and in California no less. Browse clever design accessories from world renowned industrial designers and high-concept furniture and lighting straight from the...
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Address:290 Townsend Street
San Francisco CA 94107
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-415-543-5466
Hours: Mon-Fri: 9:30-6 Sat-Sun: 11-6
LIMN
Is it a New York furniture showroom you want? A massive space complete with massively expensive avant-garde furniture, conceptual design accessories and a demure staff clad in back? LIMN is everything you're looking for and more, and in California no less. Browse clever design accessories from world renowned industrial designers and high-concept furniture and lighting straight from the...
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Address:501 Arden Way
Sacramento CA 95815
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-916-564-2900
Hours: Mon: 12-6 Tue-Fri: 10-6 Sat: 11-5:30 Sun: Closed
LIMN
Is it a New York furniture showroom you want? A massive space complete with massively expensive avant-garde furniture, conceptual design accessories and a demure staff clad in back? LIMN is everything you're looking for and more. Browse clever design accessories from world renowned industrial designers and high-concept furniture and lighting straight from the Milan Furniture Fair in a...
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Address:629 Western Avenue
Seattle WA 98104
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-206-696-7077
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
Matter
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Matter is high design objects without high design attitudes. Look for interesting lighting and bent-ply furnishings. Seek out unique vases, pillows, tableware, jewelry and other accessories. Don't miss the brainy books on art and design.
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Address:227 5th Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11215
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-718-230-1150
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sun: 12-7
Matter
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In it's Manhattan incarnation (the original shopping being Brooklyn bred), Matter has grown up without forgetting where it came from. Exemplary design is the tie that binds the stores offerings. On one side sits a row of display cases holding beautiful, intricate jewelry from designers you've haven't heard of yet. On the other is a wall of cool home accessories, ceramics and...
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Address:405 Broome Street
New York NY 10013
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-212-343-2600
Hours: Mon-Sat: 12-7 Sun: 12-6
MoMa Store
It makes sense that best modern museum in the country has the best museum store as well. The MoMa Store has taken the idea of a museum store to another level, augmenting the usual books and design objects found at every other museum store with exclusive to MoMa design work, a rotating selection of design items focusing on a particular locality (e.g. the Buenos Aires design scene) and work from...
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Address:11 West 53rd Street
New York NY 10019
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-212-708-9700
Hours: Mon-Thu: 9:30-6:30 Fri: 9:30-9 Sat: 9:30-6:30 Sun: Closed
MoMa Store
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It makes sense that best modern museum in the country has the best museum store as well. The MoMa Store has taken the idea of a museum store to another level, augmenting the usual books and design objects found at every other museum store with exclusive to MoMa design work, a rotating selection of design items focusing on a particular locality (e.g. the Buenos Aires design scene) and work from...
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Address:81 Spring Street
New York NY 10012
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-646-613-1367
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11-8 Sun: 11-7
Moss
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More museum of industrial design than design store, Moss displays its collection of exquisite modernist home accessories like artwork. The long, bright, sanitary space has several rows of products for customers to snake through, each accompanied by a note listing the designer and country of origin. Among the items are toasters, toothbrush holders, colanders and ashtrays. A separate but...
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Address:146 Greene Street
New York NY 10012
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-212-204-7100
Hours: Mon--Sat: 11-7 Sun: 12-6
Moss
More museum of industrial design than design store, Moss displays its collection of exquisite modernist home accessories like artwork. Among the items are toasters, toothbrush holders, colanders and ashtrays and larger items such as coffee tables and chairs. The prices will sometimes make you feel like you are buying art right off a museum's walls but as rappers like to say "if you...
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Address:8444 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90069
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-323-866-5260
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sat: 11-7 Sun: Closed
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
OK
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OK is the one expression you really can't use to describe OK. Gorgeous, hip, beautiful, classy, stunning--these would do better. The gallery is an ode to exquisite design. Learn a thing or two by picking up a few of their new and used books on art, design and architecture. Apply what you have learned to select among sets of curvy Scandinavian flatware, sexy Italian tableware and...
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Address:8303 West 3rd Street
Los Angeles CA 90048
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-323-653-3501
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11-6:30 Sun: 12-6
Peter Miller
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Go to Bilbao to see the Guggenheim, to Stockholm to see the "Twisting Torso." Then come to Peter Miller to learn who designed them, how they were built and why. The store stacks its shelves to the ceiling with books on architecture and design. Whether looking for a volume on historic facades, an anthology of a top architect, you can find them at Peter Miller. Furthermore, the...
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Address:1930 1st Avenue
Seattle WA 98101
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-206-441-4114
Hours: Mon-Sat: 10-6 Sun: Closed
Propeller
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Propeller is not just another nonsensical, hipper-than-thou store name. To us at least, it refers to the careers or promising young designer the store helps propel. The furniture and accessories store is a slightly jumbled assortment of attractive, modern pieces. But fancy Italian and Scandinavian names are nowhere to be found. The store focuses mainly on North American designed and produced...
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Address:555 Hayes Street
San Francisco CA
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-415-701-7667
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
Relish Design
Reader Suggested: Relish started in Portland, Oregon as a small emerging design retail brand almost 5 years ago. Our goal was to always remain innovative in curating design brands from all over the world, many unknown in the US until the last few years. The owner, Trisha Guido, began the business showcasing mostly British ceramics and industrial design products from her recent post there in the early...
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Address:433 NW 10th Street
Portland OR 97209
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-503-227-3779
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11-6 Sun: 12-5
RISD Works
Imagine if the faculty, students and alumni of the great design schools sold their wares at the school's gift shop--instead of T-shirts and mugs, they would sell the latest and greatest of design. Well, in at least one place you don't need to imagine. RISD Works offers a collection of products designed by the alumni and faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design. More museum than...
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Address:10 Westminster Street
Providence RI 02903
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-401-277-4949
Hours: Mon-Sat: 10-6 Sun: 11-5
Rose and Radish
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Known for its dramatic, beautiful floral arrangements, Rose & Radish has turned its keen design sense to home design. Alongside flowers, their modern gallery space now presents an expertly curated collection of home accessories. From pristine white bone china from Germany to elegant glass candleholders from Italy, pretty hand-screened textiles from France to traditional laquerware from...
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Address:460 Gough Street
San Francisco CA 94102
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-415-864-4988
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sat: 10-6 Sun: Closed
Scandinavian Details
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Whether vintage, vintage reproduction, or new work, Scandinavian furniture designs have no shortage of stores dedicated to them. Scandinavian Details gives Scandinavian accessories their day in the sun. There are elegant glasswares, clever cookwares, chic pattern textiles, refined desk set and other a hundred some odd other accessories that'll add a punch of modern design in your living...
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Address:364 Hayes Street
San Francisco CA
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-415-552-1100
Hours: Mon-Tue: 12-6 Wed-Sat: 12-7 Sun: 12-5
Scandinavian Grace
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Scandinavian Grace features all the best of Scandinavian design in one simple, modern presentation. If the shop is a window in to the world of every day Scandinavian life then all we have to say is "where do we sign up?". Modern, svelt cutlery, gorgeous print fabrics available by the yard, cheery tea towels, elegant, tinted glassware and substantial wood furnishings are objects we...
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Address:167 North 9th Street
Brooklyn NY 11211
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-718-384-7886
SF MOMA Store
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The store of San Francisco's pride-and-joy museum is, by extension, rather well appointed. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's (MOMA) store is stocked certainly with books and postcards of the art of display, but more interesting is the plethora of items, whether jewelry or watches, mobiles or lighting, stationery or toys that are inspired from, reminiscent of, influenced by, or...
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Address:151 3rd Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-415-357-4035 or 1-888-357-0037
Hours: Mon-Wed: 10-6:30 Thu: 10-9:30 Fri-Sun: 10-6:30
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
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
Studio Brillantine
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Design stores with fun stuff to look at are so passé. At Studio Brillantine, the design items look right back at you. Tin-Tin grins back at your from a tall glass, funny faces meet your gaze from corkscrews and clocks, coasters and ice buckets. All in all there are two rooms of fun and funky housewares to peruse, along with a corner for fashion and design books.
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Address:1082 1/2 Queen Street West
Toronto ON M6J 1H8
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-416-536-6521
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11-6 Sun: 12-5
Swipe
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Ask your local bookstore where the "retail design" or "typography" sections are and watch them return a blank stare. Ask the people at Swipe and they'll likely follow-up with "Are you interested in historical typography or new work?" Such are the wonders of specialization. Swipe carries an extensive selection of books centered around the advertising and...
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Address:477 Richmond Street West Suite 103
Toronto ON M5V 3E7
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-416-363-6130 or 1-800-567-9473
Hours: Mon-Fri: 10-7 Sat: 12-6 Sun: Closed
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 Future Perfect
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The vision of the future presented to us in TV and movies always seems to involve one-piece body-hugging spandex suits and furnishings whose purpose is not outwardly apparent. We much prefer the future as presented by The Future Perfect. The exquisite furniture and accessories gallery is a perfect mix of goods that are hip and edgy without being impractical. Well, maybe a Louis XIV chair with...
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Address:115 North 6th Street
Brooklyn NY 11211
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-718-599-6278
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Sat: 12-9 Sun: 12-7
Tivoli Home
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Operating out of an impossibly small space, Tivoli Home showcases Scandinavian design in remarkable breadth and depth. The shop goes beyond the handful of Scandinavian manufacturers whose wares are now widely available to find a slew of smaller designers making everything from totebags to mugs, table lamps to throws. Here the deep bench of Scandinavian designers becomes apparent. As for the...
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Address:111 Front Street
Brooklyn NY 11201
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-718-666-3050
Hours: Mon-Tue: Closed Wed-Thu: 11-7 Fri-Sat: 11-6 Sun: 12-6
Tortoise
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So you thought you were cool when you saw "Lost in Translation" before anyone else, but now the whole world has seen it. It's time to kick your Japano-phile induced coolness up a few notches by visiting Tortoise. "Those are some cool forks you have there". Gee thanks, if memory serves they were designed by Sori Yanagi in 1974. "Where did you get these cool...
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Address:1208 Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Venice CA 90291
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-310-314-8448
Hours: Mon-Tue: Closed Wed-Sun: 12-6
Twentieth
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Twentieth rents its furniture for movie and TV sets with regularity and there are no shortage of pieces that are in the compact car price range. But that shouldn't stop you from stopping by anyway. The huge store is a space worth visiting for anyone who enjoys modernism in any of its forms. One side of the split showroom is all vintage 20th century furniture, the other side collects a...
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Address:8057 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90048
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-323-904-1200
Hours: Mon-Fri: 10-6 Sat: 12-5 Sun: Closed
Up To You
Reader Suggested: The store is set up like an apartment with every thing for sale. It is a wicked store and most of the products in it I have never seen before. The store has a sophisticated feel.
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Address:1483 Queen Street East
Toronto ON M4L 1E2
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-416-778-6487
Hours: Mon-Tue: Closed Wed-Sat: 11-6 Sun: 12-5
Yolk
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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 furniture are scores of creative, often zany items...
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Address:1626 Silver Lake Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90026
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-323-660-4315
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Wed: 11-7 Thu: 12-8 Fri: 11-7 Sat: 10-6 Sun: 12-6
Zakka
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Zakka is a one of a kind shop and gallery, collecting design books from many different design disciplines. Furthermore it keeps an office Japan and thus is in tune with what's happening in Japanese design and subculture. The result is a unique, worldly space where one can learn about myriad popular and obscure design subjects. Pick up a tribute to Helvetica (the font), or the latest...
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Address:147 Grand Street
New York NY 10013
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-212-431-3961
Hours: Mon-Fri: 12-7 Sat-Sun: 12-7
Zinc Details
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If you know anything about San Francisco, it's that a design store where everyone wears black turtlenecks will be a miserable failure. The owners of Zinc Details appreciate the wear flowers in you hair attitude of San Francisco. All you have to do is look in on the colorful items at Zinc Details to understand that this is not your ordinary design store. It's full of items that you...
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Address:1905 Fillmore Street
San Francisco CA 94115
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-415-776-2100
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11-7 Sun: 12-6
