Design Stores
A list of the coolest design shops around.
Most Recent Stores
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.
ReForm School
Silverlake - Los Angeles, CA United StatesThe 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...
Scandinavian Details
Hayes Valley - San Francisco, CA United StatesWhether 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...
Rose and Radish
Hayes Valley - San Francisco, CA United StatesKnown 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...
Propeller
Hayes Valley - San Francisco, CA United StatesPropeller 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...
SF MOMA Store
SoMa - San Francisco, CA United StatesThe 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...
LIMN
SoMa - San Francisco, CA 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, and in...
LIMN
North Sacramento - Sacramento, CA 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, and in California no less. Browse clever design accessories...
Up To You
Leslieville - Toronto, ON CanadaReader 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.
Zakka
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesZakka 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...
Matter
Park Slope - Brooklyn, NY United StatesMatter 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.
The Future Perfect
Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY United StatesThe 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...
David Mirvish Books
The Annex - Toronto, ON CanadaThere'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...
Studio Brillantine
West Queen West - Toronto, ON CanadaDesign 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....
Swipe
Queen Street West - Toronto, ON CanadaAsk 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...
Ballenford Books on Architecture
The Annex - Toronto, ON CanadaWriting 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...
Peter Miller
Downtown - Seattle, WA United StatesGo 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...