Home Accessories Shopping Guide

Listed are some of the coolest home accessories shops around.

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3R Living

We've come a long way from when eco-living meant wearing a hemp shirt and having a compost bin out back. These days eco-living is as stylish as it is responsible, and 3R Living is a perfect...

A&G Merch

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...

Amaridian

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,...

American Studio Plus

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...

Apartment 48

Imagine going into your friend's cozy apartment and him saying to you, "See anything you like? It's yours". Other than the formality of monetary exchange, this is essentially...

Apartment Zero

Apartment Zero's 2700 square feet is full of modern furniture and accessories. This in itself is nothing to write home about. Apartment Zero fills 2700 square feet with modern furniture and...

Appel Design

Reader Suggested: More a gallery of the all time greatest of last century's furniture design than a store.

Apt

When 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...

A+R

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

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...

Architectural Elements

Architechtural 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...

Reader Suggested: Area is an interior accessories store. It features a wide variety of items beautifully displayed by the owner John. With a keen eye John carries items that will please any interior designer or...

Area 51

Area 51 is the furniture store those other furniture stores don't want you to know about. Practically the size of a small lake, the warehouse mixes a selection of vintage furniture with...

Atys

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...

Auto

Auto focuses on home accessories mostly conceived by designers local to New York. That these designs would stand up in any major city, in any country are what make the store special. For textiles,...

Bark

Imagine you went to every housewares shop and bazaar around the world and announced "Give me the finest item in your collection!" Your final collection of goods would look a lot like the...

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)...

Base

Big Pagoda

The goods of most American showrooms purporting to sell Chinese furniture are about as Chinese as Beef and Broccoli and Chow Mein. Not so at Big Pagoda. Owner Kurt Silver spent over a decade in...

Bitters Co.

If your only experience with globalization involves talking to tech support guys in Bangalore, let Bitters Co. show you a different way. To Bitters Co., globalization means gathering interesting...

Black Ink

Black Ink does a wonderful job of selling nothing in particular. Hello Kitty lunchboxes, rubber peanuts, squiggly sushi plates, banana-shaped doorstops and Korean composition books are among the...

Black Ink

Black Ink does a wonderful job of selling nothing in particular. Hello Kitty lunchboxes, rubber peanuts, squiggly sushi plates, banana-shaped doorstops and Korean composition books are among the...

Blackman Cruz

At Blackman Cruz the objects either came from dead people, are made from dead people or animals or could easily kill you. By objects that came from dead people we of course mean antiques, but...

Blackman Cruz

At Blackman Cruz the objects either came from dead people, are made from dead people or animals or could easily kill you. By objects that came from dead people we of course mean antiques, but...

Candystore

There are definitely some candies, mostly of the classic variety, at CandyStore. But most of the candy comes in the form of eye candy. The cheery space fill racks and shelves with fun, colorful...

Chartreuse

Everything old is new again. Or so you'll discover as soon as entering Chartreuse. The seating, lighting, furniture and accessories conceived by the legendary designers of the first part of...

Clio

Too many people spend considerable time, effort and money buying nice, stylish shoes and clothing and then completely forget what style means when it comes to outfitting their homes. Clio serves...

Clover

Clover must be a product of people who didn't know what kind of store they wanted to open. Should we open a clothing store? There is a nice selection of hip women's clothing and shoes...

Cog & Pearl

Cog & Pearl's mantra is "handmade stuff to give and keep" and it's really that simple. In little groupings all around the spacious store are handmade home and personal...

Colette

After walking through Colette, you will see every store that you thought was cool before under a new light. There is cool, and then there is "we sell our own mix CDs and our own water"...

Commute Home

Your commute home never looked so good. Commute Home deals in the modern furniture of your dreams. Chic accessories and art pieces abound, but the stars of the show are their custom-built tables,...

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...

C.S. Post & Co.

To our best recollection, none of the general stores we've seen in westerns look anything like C.S. Post & Co. But that's OK, we kind of prefer their version of general store anyway,...

Darr

"What is it?" and "I want it.", in that order, must be the two most common utterances at Darr. The vintage and antique home accessories and furniture store travels to multiple...

De Vera

A small out of the way storefront is no precursor to the drama and refinement that waits inside De Vera. The store mainly holds the designs of San Francisco jewelry designer Frederico de Vera. De...

De Vera

Gawking at De Vera's amazing collection seems oddly like browsing artifacts at a museum. The dramatic store, a narrow space with massive paned windows, holds a collection of De Vera's...

Dexterity

We like intricate, traditionally crafted furniture shaped by thousands of years of history and culture as much as the next person, but in the case of Asian furniture sometimes we feel like saying...

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...

Doe

Doe is general store, San Francisco style. In what isn't the biggest space in the world they manage to squeeze in clothing for men, women and children, various home accessories, lotions and...

Egbert's

There's a certain been there, done that quality to Egbert's that's hard not to notice. They don't impress you with their dramatic displays or try to get your attention with...

Empiric

Rarely does a shop come along that mixes several themes so flawlessly and naturally as Empiric. The shop's own line of 1940s style furniture forms the base of the store. The new sofas,...

Empiric

Rarely does a shop come along that mixes several themes so flawlessly and naturally as Empiric. The shop's own line of 1940s style furniture forms the base of the store. The new sofas,...

Environment337

If your home is your sanctuary, then you don't want to be stuck in your sanctuary with faux-brass light fixtures, cheesy plastic plates and MDF coffee tables. Those looking to create a home...

Etre

Reader Suggested: An eclectic store that appeals to all wallets, or pocketbooks if you will. It has everything from an $8000 Versace looking desk from the turn of the century to jumbo pick-up stix. Book selection is...

FinnStyle

Reader Suggested: FinnStyle is probably the largest store in the U.S. featuring modern design from Finland. The company features products from well-established Finnish brands (iittala, Arabia, Aarikka, Kalevala Koru...

Fitzsu

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...

Fitzsu

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...

Fluid Living

Modern furniture stores are known for the sparse merchandising, 3-items-in-a-room syndrome shall we call it. At Fluid Living the furniture is certainly modern but they opted for the...

Form Vintage Modern

At 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...

Foster's Urban Homeware

Homeware stores can't really be everything to everybody but don't blame Foster's for trying. The home store is conceptual and practical, grown-up and young-at-heart all at once....

Gibson

"We expect people to shop a little at our shop and then a lot at places like Ikea or Crate & Barrel," we overhead Gary Gibson of Gibson telling a young couple during our visit...

Global Table

We think Global Table should become the "Official Tableware Supplier of the Olympics". What other store carries rustic American plates, elegant Japanese sushi dishes, sexy Italian...

Golden Calf

When shops attempt to mix Western and Eastern aesthetics, the result it sooner confusion than fusion. Golden Calf manages an effortless mixture of new and old, foreign and hyper-local. A large...

Go Mama Go

Fine dining restaurants may be obsessed with all white all the time tableware, but that doesn't mean you need to be. Go Mama Go prefers it tableware in crayon colors like cornflower blue and...

Good

Name your store "Good" and you're just asking for endless sarcastic comments. (Just off the top of our heads: It's not that good. Not good enough. Good-bye.) But, after...

Gore Dean

Imagine an Antiques Road Show best-of-the-best episode and that'll give you a bit of insight into what Gore Dean is like. Inside a magical brick warehouse of a space are a collection of some...

GRDN

GRDN helps concrete pounding urbanites introduce a small slice of nature into their lives. The shop knows the indignities an urban gardener must suffer and so organizes its plants around the amount...

Great Jones Home

Great Jones Home is testament to the wonderful home design that's possible when you don't pay attention to price brackets or themes. The store in anchored by serious French country...

Greener Lifestyles

Who said "it's not easy being green"? With Greener Lifestyles it's not just easy, it's a blast. The home and accessories stocks a full line of all-natural, fair-trade...

Habitat

Less is more at Habitat. Rather than clutter their cozy space, they chose to keep their stock simple but stunning. The store offers a small selection of home accents and jewelry. The jewelry...

Hable Construction

At Hable Construction, it all begins with fabric. The stylish outfit prints cheery, bright designs on canvas, linen and cotton fabrics and uses them to make innumerable accessories. If it can be...

Hardware

In the furniture at Hardware seems custom-built for Andre The Giant (RIP) don't be alarmed. They used big materials. The furniture of Hardware is created using salvaged home building...

Hasker

Hasker is the type of store that has nothing we absolutely need but lots of stuff we'll want. Whether talking about a candlestick shaped liked antlers or a light shaped like a ghost, they have...

Hive

If calling something "modernist" has become a backhanded compliment in the design world, than no one told Hive. The store celebrates modernism in all its glory. Here, modern design is...

Home Rule

A temple to practical contemporary design, Home Rule is all about replacing your mundane household items with cool, modern versions of the same. Its long, tall shelves are stacked with trashcans,...

Homework

Homework may be over after college, but most people's homes could definitely use some work. That's why the kind folks at Homework are here. The store carries simple, stylish home and...

Hus

We've seen many a Scandinavian home store and clothing stores with lots of Scandinavian clothes. But Hus is the whole Scandinavian experience. From Sweden come clothing, shoes and accessories...

I.D.

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

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...

Inform Interiors

Infrom is that rare furniture store that pays homage to the past and looks toward the future. The past in this case is the iconic mid-century modern pieces in new production runs. This includes...

Inform Interiors

Infrom is that rare furniture store that pays homage to the past and looks toward the future. The past in this case is the iconic mid-century modern pieces in new production runs. This includes...

Jalan

The rub with buying anything Asian in a Western country is authenticity. Yes, your table was made in China but so was my alarm clock. Would the piece ever be seen in a proper Chinese home? That...

John Derian

Decoupage and stylish are two words you're not likely to see together very often. The craft of using paper cutouts and varnish to decorate is more often featured in Midwestern farms than New...

Just Scandinavian

Even 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...

Karkula

There's a certain optimism with design school product that doesn't manifest itself anywhere else. Short of lifting objects from design school exhibitions, Karkula is about close as...

Kelly Green

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,...

Kiosk

In the age of container mega-ships and overnight cargo that any interesting product from one corner of the world is not available everywhere else is surprising. But that's just the case for...

Kita Ceramics & Glassware

Kita Ceramics & Glassware is dedicated to two ancient art forms: glass making and pottery making. They carry an extensive and amazing assortment of Murano glass. In 1292, when government...

Koo de Kir

Let's face it, not everyone has good taste. Luckily, we live in a society where what you don't have you can buy. Above all, Koo de Kir is a purveyor of good taste. Whether buying for...

La Cafetière

Americans certainly know how to do casual and by now we've learned how to do elegant. But, casual elegance is a trait that still eludes the typical American home. Enter the South of France,...

Lake

Delicate, somewhat romantic clothing, an apothecary stocked with natural and organic products, and a smattering of distinctive home accessories constitute the ecosystem of Lake. The well-edited...

Layla

Layla is one of those stores we like to call stride-stopping. You're walking along with purpose, with places to go and people to see, until you notice intriguing items at a window and have to...

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...

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...

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...

Live It Up

Live it Up seems to exist to show people that they don't need much money or space to have fun with their domiciles. The small shop is full of fun, functional, small and affordable items for...

Lotus Bleu

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...

Louis Boston

Louis Boston is what department stores look like in heaven. The decades old high-end clothing retailer is one of the most innovative and interesting large stores you're likely to ever come...

Lucca Great Finds

Yearn for the Old Country? Where your grandfather worked the land, or, where you vacationed for a week last summer? Modeled after the charming gift shops all across Europe, Lucca Great Finds brings...

Made

Reader Suggested: Great furniture store featuring local design stars, including one-of-a-kind and custom pieces.

Maison Midi

Maison is French lifestyle store complete with demonstration models. Orange, green and yellow colored glass tumblers, stacks of linens, pillows, vases, trays and colorful dinnerware are laid out...

Matter

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....

Matter

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...

Matthew Izzo

Matthew Izzo is magazine spread shopping. The store has an uncanny knack for stocking the furniture, accessories and apparel that show up in magazine spreads from New York to LA. Clothing for men...

Mixture

If Mixture could only just move a few extra pieces out of their space and hand us the keys to the place we'd be all set. Situated in an inspiring warehouse loft are dozens of inspired modern...

Modern Stone Age

In this modern world of wooden floors and furniture and stainless steel everything else, stone has gotten a raw deal. Freed from the injustice of a kitchen counter only existence, Modern Stone Age...

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...

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...

Moon River Chattel

Moon River Chattel presents country chic items city dwellers can love. Tableware is a main draw here, whether genuine vintage and antique items or new pieces that fit in with the old. Jars, tins,...

Moss

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...

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...

Motley

Motley is right. This small outpost is a random collection of clothing, personal accessories and home accessories. A dozen or two graphic T-shirts hang on one corner. A center table is decorated...

Motley Home

Reader Suggested: The houseware selection outgrew the original Motley @ 623 Tremont St, so owner Doug Palardy teamed up with his friend Jimmy Ward to create Motley Home at 652 Tremont Street to fill the demand of...

Museum of Useful Things

Imagine a world without coat hangers, dustpans, and bottle openers. Now, we're not sure what hell looks like but this would be a good place to start. The Museum of Useful Things pays homage...

Mxyplyzyk

A store named Mxyplyzyk may get your attention, but it's the dozens of shiny and colorful items you can see through the window that will compel you to go inside. The spacious, quirky store...

My Own Space

My Own Space certainly has many, many ways to make a space your own. The shop carries a somewhat unconventional mixture of modern furnishings and accessories that includes tried and true American...

Nomad

Imagine 10,000 quaint villages mashed into one and you might have an idea of Nomad's interior. The outpost collects folk art and crafts from across the globe to make for a quirky, colorful...

OK

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...

Open House

In any city, there are stores that elevate the collective style of the area, as if people were just waiting for someone to show them what's possible and achievable. Open House is one such...

Orange Skin

In 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...

Paxton Gate

Paxton Gate calls itself an "eccentric garden store." The plants are in the back but to get there you'll have to navigate a wall of moose and deer heads, Japanese sheers and...

Pearl River

Why go to Chinatown, when Chinatown comes to you? Pearl River, in its cavernous SoHo space, is a huge collection of all things Chinese. The multi-leveled store carries cookware, home accessories,...

Plastica

If "plastic makes it possible" then you'll find it at Plastica. The store is dedicated to our favorite petroleum product and more generally items that are pliable. Housewares,...

Plushpod

Yes, if you furnished your home top to bottom with furniture and accessories from Plushpod your space would look rather severe--high-concept modern furniture has a way of going there. But...

Propeller

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...

Proper Topper

What do Paul Newman, Bill Clinton and Andre Agassi have in common? They're all known for their special talents in a particular area and they've all shopped at Proper Topper. Coincidence?...

Proper Topper

What do Paul Newman, Bill Clinton and Andre Agassi have in common? They're all known for their special talents in a particular area, and they've all shopped at Proper Topper....

Quasi Modo

With modern furniture and accessories going in so many different directions (organic, industrial, or space-age; metal, wood, or plastic) it's hard to point at one aesthetic and say...

Realm

Any Chinatown anywhere in the world has dozens of those shops overflowing with little bits of everything. On the surface, Realm looks like another one of those shops, but a closer look reveals a...

ReForm School

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...

Regeneration

Regeneration can show anyone a good hundred ways to be "green." T-shirts to tote bags, salad bowls to textiles, baubles to household every item in the multi-roomed shop ha a bit of...

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...

Retrofit Home

Retrofit Home strives to give your home that retro feel. Sure, one way to get that retro feel is to buy mid-century modern, but alas it's also a quick way to bankrupt. Retrofit's...

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...

Room Service

Full dozens classic modern furniture pieces and hundreds of chic accessories, Room Service is one stop shop for those seeking a fun, modern lifestyle. Affordable reproductions of iconic pieces by...

Room Service

Full dozens classic modern furniture pieces and hundreds of chic accessories, Room Service is one stop shop for those seeking a fun, modern lifestyle. Affordable reproductions of iconic pieces by...

Room Service

Full dozens classic modern furniture pieces and hundreds of chic accessories, Room Service is one stop shop for those seeking a fun, modern lifestyle. Affordable reproductions of iconic pieces by...

Rose and Radish

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...

Scandinavian Details

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...

Scentiments

The sentiment seems to be that if you spend on flowers the recipient will not notice the cellophane, foam or cheap glass (using the world glass liberally) vase that holds the flowers. We knew...

Scout

Think reconnaissance, not cookies. Scout serves as your travel scout, visiting locales far and wide and bringing back a collection of delightful accessories, furnishings, crafts, art and random...

Seasons International

In New York, there are 84,000 places to eat Japanese food, a few dozen places to buy Japanese clothes, maybe 2 or 3 place to buy Japanese toys and thanks to Seasons International at least one...

SF MOMA Store

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...

Show

We've walked through many a 10,000 sq. ft modern design stores and found nothing we wanted or, for that matter, could afford. Then there are stores like Show, where in a couple hundred square...

Skynear

We're not sure what "Skynear" is referencing, but we're guessing it has something to do with their 4 levels of furniture and lighting. You can find everything you need to...

Soap Plant/Wacko

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...

Soolip Bungalow

Soolip Bungalow may have left the paper behind, but borrowing the aesthetic that helped make Soolip Paperie a success has worked out well. The store carries a varying collection of pretty, elegant...

Spring

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...

Sprout Home

Sprout Home finds its inspiration in the garden. The shop carries unique plants as well as gardening supplies, including a great selection of items for container gardening. Going beyond its...

Sprout Home

Sprout Home finds its inspiration in the garden. The shop carries unique plants as well as gardening supplies, including a great selection of items for container gardening. Going beyond its...

Square Room

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...

Stitch

In 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...

Studio Brillantine

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...

Swallow

It's almost unfair to call both the vessels you drink your morning juice out of and the vases, pitchers, cups at Swallow "glass." The store brings together the works of the best...

Symmetry

Asian 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...

Tabletop

You wish your tabletop was this cool. The collection of items in Tabletop is so cool, that we're almost disappointed not to find a DJ spinning in some corner. Full of "functional...

Tail of the Yak

It's almost impossible to describe Tail of the Yak. So it's probably best to just describe what's in it, the doves for example. Yes, real, peace and love doves live in a cage in the...

Tao Living

Yes, but how does that lamp make you feel? This is a type of question Tao Living (Tao stands for "The Art Of") wants you to ask about all the objects in your house. The home accessories...

Tart

If Tart were to have a motto it would be "You are what you eat on." The airy space is primarily dedicated to tableware, flatware and table linens. From chic versions of the everyday...

Tauk

Reader Suggested: This shop is located in the center of montauk. It's got a relaxed beach vibe with the surfer or artist in mind. They carry mens, womens and childrens clothing, home furnishings, jewelry, art...

Terra

Reader Suggested: Terra is a lifestyle boutique specializing in distinct gifts, accessories, and clothing for men and women. I carry a range of emerging designers from around the world and offer Washingtonians...

The Future Perfect

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...

Thousand Cranes

Most of us know futons as "college furniture". Enter Thousand Cranes, the Japanese futon shop. It seems in Japan futons are perfectly stylish and functional pieces of furniture....

Tim Clarke

Pure modernism would seem rather incongruous to its beachside environment, so Tim Clarke has embraced another aesthetic, namely coastal modernism. Pieces are clean and simple, but also natural....

Tiny Living

Think 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:...

Tivoli Home

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...

Token

Available by the dozens: tokens of your appreciateion. Token has an uncanny eye for the types of objects take make perfect gifts. Color and pattern are front and center here. Journals and wallets...

Tortoise

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

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...

Unica Home

You want to visit Egypt, Paris, New York, ancient Rome, Venice, the stratosphere, the circus and Celine Dion in one trip. You know where to go. You want to see every desk, bed, rug, lamp, chair...

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.

Urchin

Small, luxurious and striking--this would well describe a sea urchin. It's also a pretty good description of the items you'll find at Urchin. Long ceramic vases with a lustrous glaze to...

Velocity Art & Design

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...

Vivid

Vivid is a real life lesson in advanced merchandising. The bright general store arranges its store by color. On our visit the window was an explosion of green--a dashing green dress, green...

Watson Kennedy Fine Home

The fine folks at Watson Kennedy Fine Living filled their store with spa-worthy wares, they gave you the inspiration to transform your home into a serene, warm atmosphere. With Watson Kennedy Fine...

Watson Kennedy Fine Living

What is fine living? To some its a 60-inch plasma TV, to others it's a drop top with 22-inch shoes and for others still it's living everyday as if you're visiting a spa. For this...

Weego Home

Modernists 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...

Wildbird

For most city folk, the closest they come to communing with nature is watching a show about the lions of the Serengeti on the TV. Consider Wildbird a slow, safe introduction to the great outdoors....

Willow

As the name suggests, there's a definite organic, natural vibe to the tableware, home accessories and jewelry at Willow. Candlesticks might take the shape of antlers, bowls are carved out of...

Worthwhile

Reader Suggested: Great store and great people. They carry many of the (women's clothing) brands you mention and support and they also have a great website/online store with fantastic customer service....

Woven History/Silk Road

The Silk Road was an ancient trade route that linked Europe to much of China. Silk Road, the store, captures some of the magic of the fabled route by finding and collecting items from the many...

Woven History/Silk Road

The Silk Road was an ancient trade route that linked Europe to much of China. Silk Road, the store, captures some of the magic of the fabled route by finding and collecting items from the many...

Yolk

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...

Zawadi

Focusing on African and African-American furnishings, art, artifacts and accessories, Zawadi brings together distinctive items into its long, narrow space. Kenya, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and the Congo...

Zelen

Even the coolest home design objects start to look tiresome after we see them in store after store after store. Zelen, an unassuming shop tucked amongst massive furniture showrooms, seems on an...

Zinc Details

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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