Home Accessories Stores
A list of the coolest home accessories shops around.
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3R Living
Park Slope - Brooklyn, NY United StatesWe'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 example. The store collects a variety of cleverly...
Apartment 48
Chelsea - New York, NY United StatesImagine 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 what a visit to Apartment 48 is like. The space is...
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...
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.
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.
Auto
Meatpacking District - New York, NY United StatesAuto 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, there are striking beach towels in a zig-zagged...
Bark
Boerum Hill - Brooklyn, NY United StatesImagine 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 collection of items at Bark. The airy, inspiring...
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...
Big Pagoda
Union Square - San Francisco, CA United StatesThe 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 China and Big Pagoda is the product of his years...
Bitters Co.
Fremont - Seattle, WA United StatesIf 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 objects from around the world, items unique to their...
Candystore
The Mission - San Francisco, CA United StatesThere 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 T-shirts, dresses, jackets and the like, often from...
Clio
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesToo 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 up healthy doses of home stylishness, for prices...
Cog & Pearl
Park Slope - Brooklyn, NY United StatesCog & 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 accessories made by artists and designers across the...
Colette
Louvre/Tuileries - Paris, FranceAfter 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" cool. Colette is a store like no other. It sells a...
Composition
Belmar Shopping Center - Lakewood, CO United StatesEver 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...
C.S. Post & Co.
Chestnut Street District - Hays, KS United StatesTo 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, with its stylish merchandising and hundreds of interesting, luxurious home and personal products....
Doe
Lower Haight - San Francisco, CA United StatesDoe 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 notions, art and even a good bit of jewelry....
Environment337
Carroll Gardens - Brooklyn, NY United StatesIf 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 environment that's inspiring, comfortable,...
FinnStyle
Downtown - Minneapolis, MN United StatesReader 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 and Marimekko) as well as products--rugs, table linens, jewelry, purses--from young up-and-coming...