Design Stores
A list of the coolest design shops around.
Most Recent Stores
A+R
Abbot Kinney - Venice, CA United StatesA+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.
Moss
Melrose Heights - Los Angeles, CA United StatesMore 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...
New Museum
Lower East Side - New York, NY United StatesWithout 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,...
Spring
DUMBO - Brooklyn, NY United StatesIndeed, 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...
Relish Design
Pearl District - Portland, OR United StatesReader 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...
Kelly Green
Silverlake - Los Angeles, CA United StatesHonestly, 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.
Matter
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesIn 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...
A+R
Silverlake - Los Angeles, CA United StatesA+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.
Base
South Beach - Miami Beach, FL United StatesReader 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...
Base
South Beach - Miami Beach, FL United StatesReader 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...
LIMN
Pioneer Square - Seattle, WA United StatesIs 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...
MoMa Store
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesIt 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...
MoMa Store
Midtown - New York, NY United StatesIt 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...
Spoonbill & Sugartown
Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY United StatesCompeting 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,...
A&G Merch
Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY United StatesWe 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...
I.D.
Lakeview/Wrigleyville - Chicago, IL United StatesIn 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,...
Tivoli Home
DUMBO - Brooklyn, NY United StatesOperating 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...
Made
Dundas West - Toronto, ON CanadaReader Suggested: Great furniture store featuring local design stars, including one-of-a-kind and custom pieces.
Appel Design
Mitte - Berlin, GermanyReader Suggested: More a gallery of the all time greatest of last century's furniture design than a store.
Andreas Murkudis
Mitte - Berlin, GermanyReader Suggested: It's pure, it's simple, it's totally stylish. Run by the brother of (fashion designer) Kostas Murkudis.