Lighting Stores
A list of the coolest lighting shops around.
Most Recent Stores
Moss
Melrose Heights - Los Angeles, CA United StatesMore 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 and ashtrays and larger items such as coffee tables and chairs. The prices will sometimes make you...
Muleh
Cardozo Shaw - Washington, DC United StatesReader Suggested: A unique lifestyle store that mixes very cool furniture, fashion and art you don't find everywhere.
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...
Empiric
Culver City - Culver City, CA United StatesRarely 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, tables, storage units and beds in the line are classic '40s with simple, sleek lines and an air of...
LIMN
Pioneer Square - Seattle, WA 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. Browse clever design accessories from world renowned...
R 20th Century
Tribeca - New York, NY United StatesGo to R 20th Cenutry's showroom to see mid-century modern design come to life. The loft space has table, chairs and storage units sprinkled throughout and funky lights hanging overhead. The pieces fit right in to the hip space, hardly showing...
Lost City Arts
Flatiron - New York, NY United StatesEstablished in 1982, Lost City Arts is a stalwart in the New York mid-century modern furniture trade and for good reason. Their open space is filled with a great balance of wooden and upholstered furniture from Scandinavia and America. The...
Prague Kolektiv
DUMBO - Brooklyn, NY United StatesScandinavia of course, America sure, but mid-century modern furniture from the Czech Republic? Indeed Prague Kolektiv's collection of table, chairs, storage and lighting comes straight from the Old Country. But what does the stuff look like?...
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...
Illuminations
Downtown - Washington, DC United StatesIllumintations is a modern lighting store that knows its audience. Among the more reserved and conservative atmosphere of the Capitol, the store offers clean, classic modern lighting, combining steel, glass, plastic and wire in interesting ways. Track lighting is made of thin wire and delicate...
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...
Minima
Old City - Philadelphia, PA United StatesThere's modern and then there's Minima. At Minima, modern means high concept show pieces that would fit right in as part of the MOMA permanent collection. A typical piece? Imagine a massive chandelier made of wire, glass and metal....
Karkula
Tribeca - New York, NY United StatesThere'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 you'll get to acquiring these undiluted designs....
Tao Living
West Village - New York, NY United StatesYes, 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 store collects lamps, pillows, vases and...
Let There Be Neon
Tribeca - New York, NY United StatesIf you've ever wondered where neon signs come from, at least in New York, the answer is Let There Be Neon. The shop is the destination in New York for light-emitting signage, mainly neon, but also LED and other lighting systems. The space...
Schoolhouse Electric
Tribeca - New York, NY United StatesIf you were to ask the average person what kind of lighting they like, 1900-1950 American schoolhouse-style lighting would probably not enter into the conversation. With a few more years of Schoolhouse Electric spreading its message, who knows?...
Schoolhouse Electric
Buckman - Portland, OR United StatesIf you were to ask the average person what kind of lighting they like, 1900-1950 American schoolhouse-style lighting would probably not enter into the conversation. With a few more years of Schoolhouse Electric spreading its message, who knows? Begun when the owner discovered molds for classic...
Rico
Boerum Hill - Brooklyn, NY United StatesIf fine furnishings and home accessories never look so good as when they're properly lit, at Rico modern furnishings look their very best. The store features the lighting designs of owner and lighting designer Rico Espinet. The lighting of...
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.