Home Accessories Stores
A list of the coolest home accessories shops around.
Online Shopping
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...
Fitzsu
Palm Springs - Palm Springs, CA United StatesWhen 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 our experience at Fitzsu. The sanitary appearing...
Fitzsu
Melrose Heights - Los Angeles, CA United StatesWhen 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 our experience at Fitzsu. The sanitary appearing...
Foster's Urban Homeware
Old City - Philadelphia, PA United StatesHomeware 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. Shop for wacky toys, natural cleaning supplies,...
Go Mama Go
Cardozo Shaw - Washington, DC United StatesFine 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 spring green. The massive tableware, craft and art outlet collects colorful, interesting tableware...
Good
Beacon Hill - Boston, MA United StatesName 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 spending some time in the store, hell, we think it...
Gore Dean
Georgetown - Washington, DC United StatesImagine 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 of the finest antiques you're ever going to...
Grand
Somerville - Somerville, MA United StatesReader Suggested: Very cool modern home furnishings/gift store in Boston (suburb?). T=hey redid the space (old auto-body shop) and it's pretty snazzy. They carry some interesting lines.
GRDN
Boerum Hill - Brooklyn, NY United StatesGRDN 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 of sunlight available and has many species that...
Hable Construction
West Village - New York, NY United StatesAt 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 made using fabric, Hable has a version. Bags, boxes, belts, baskets, aprons, oven mitts, pillows,...
Hasker
Carroll Gardens - Brooklyn, NY United StatesHasker 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 a knack for finding household items that do their...
Hive
Pearl District - Portland, OR United StatesIf 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 as its best, with piece after piece that show what can happen when basic items in our home are...
Home Rule
Cardozo Shaw - Washington, DC United StatesA 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, coffee makers, martinis shakers, picture frames, plates--everything you need to add a little spark...
Hus
West Village - New York, NY United StatesWe'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 from a great group of designers, some quite...
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,...
Kiosk
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesIn 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 any number of products from mundane household items...
Kita Ceramics & Glassware
Downtown/Gaslamp - San Diego, CA United StatesKita 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 officials banned glass-making in Venice, all the glass...
Koo de Kir
Beacon Hill - Boston, MA United StatesLet'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 yourself or others, choose among their...
Live It Up
East Village - New York, NY United StatesLive 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 kitchen, bath, table and living space alike.
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...