Furniture Stores
A list of the coolest furniture shops around.
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Property
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesAt Property, the love for modern furniture runs deep. The boxiest of tables sits next to the curviest of chairs, the most playful coffee tables commiserates with the most serious of sofas. The most whimsical of chandelier hangs over the simplest...
Tiny Living
East Village - New York, NY United StatesThink about just about any indispensable item for the home and Tiny Living has a version that performs the same function while taking up less space. Sometimes it's by clever arrangement: ottomans that slide cleverly under a special sofa or a...
Just Scandinavian
Tribeca - New York, NY United StatesEven among shops that focus on Scandinavian design, Just Scandinavian is unique. Instead of stuffing the shop with sleek, modern home accessories, Just Scandinavian focuses on older work. Most prominent are mid-century textile designs by Josef...
Two Jakes
Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY United StatesTwo Jakes is actually two adjacent spaces. Each would be a wonderful store in its own right but together they're a indispensable resource for new and vintage furniture. While many vintage-furniture shops focus on wooden chairs, tables and...
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...
Apt
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesWhen we see modern furnishings through a New York's shop window, we're immediately thinking we'll have to make a choice between a couch and a new car. Not so at Apt. The friendly modern furnishings showroom has a large selection of...
Modernlink
NoHo - New York, NY United StatesWhether you like your modern old or new, Modernlink has something worth looking at. The shop began as one dedicated to mid-century modern design. They import containers worth of wooden and upholstered furniture from Scandinavia. This is top tier...
Orange Skin
River North - Chicago, IL United StatesIn other modern furniture stores we seen shelves lined with miniatures of classic modern chairs. At Orange Skin we saw the same thing, only in the full size variety. Such is the scale at which the store operates. Opened by two architects, expect...
Stitch
Bucktown - Chicago, IL United StatesIn Stitch we find a style that seems uniquely well-fitted to Chicago. Furniture like a sleek, straight-forward platform beds and handsome leather ottoman is clean and simple, but not too-cool-for-school. Luggage is utilitarian, without being...
Symmetry
Wicker Park - Chicago, IL United StatesAsian and modern furniture stores usually occupy diametrically opposed areas of the home design landscape. Symmetry effortlessly marries the two aesthetics as if they were meant for each other all their lives. The decidedly grown-up store--we...
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.
Hejfina
Wicker Park - Chicago, IL United StatesHejfina has elegant modern living down pat. For clothing expect avant-garde Japanese brands, ultra-exclusive New York brands, next to creative selections from Brazil, England and France. These are articles you certainly won't find anywhere...
Danish Teak Classics
Northeast Minneapolis - Minneapolis, MN United StatesReader Suggested: Danish Teak Classics specializes in the kind of furniture known as "Danish Modern" design--that is, furniture and accessories mainly designed and produced during the mid-20th century in Denmark. They have a ton of well-priced primarily teak but also some rosewood and walnut Danish...
Form Vintage Modern
Rockridge - Oakland, CA United StatesAt Form Vintage Modern you'll see two different approaches to the same aesthetic. First are mid-century modern furnishings in pristine condition. Teak chairs, Danish casegoods, low-lying fabric couches--all the standards are there....
Weego Home
Ocean Park - Santa Monica, CA United StatesModernists tend to use "contemporary" as a bad word, a synonym for boring, ordinary, unremarkable. The furniture of Weego Home is contemporary without being all those other things. Just stepping into their space will convince you of...
BDDW
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesWhile most companies use SoHo to build massive self-aggrandizing temples, BDDW, a small furniture company out of Brooklyn, built out a space that's more organic than ego-centric. It is none the less a place to worship beautiful wood and...
Architectural Elements
The Mission - San Francisco, CA United StatesArchitechtural Elements is the store with the courage of its convictions. The look they present is unwaveringly modern, from the block sofas to the dramatic lighting cast in steel or ceramic, from the substantial wooden dining room tables to the...
Ashland & Hill
Ocean Park - Santa Monica, CA United StatesWhen modernists go to the beach, Ashland & Hill is the result. The upholstered furniture and woodwork of the spacious furniture showroom is certainly modern--clean lines and solid colors abound--but there's a certain casual elegance in...