Mid-century Modern Stores
A list of the coolest mid-century modern shops around.
Histoire
Arnhem - Arnhem, NetherlandsReader Suggested: To all of you who are interested in the concept of Scandinavian Modernism I wish to point out an interesting store in The Netherlands, Histoire. Their collection of designs by the "Grand Masters of Good Design" such as Finn Juhl, Hans Wegner, Nanna Ditzel and Arne Jacobsen is brought...
In Abstracto
West Queen West - Toronto, ON CanadaRest assured that the furniture and accessories at In Abstracto are quite real. The shop features mid-century modern furnishings at their best--not as rarefied design icons but as fully functional pieces of furniture ready to be incorporated in...
Inside
Deco Ghetto - San Francisco, CA United StatesDon't discount the value of a good reproduction. The bedrock of Inside's collection are reproductions of mid-century modern classics, made as their creators would have wanted them. Eames chairs. George Nelson lamps. That sort of thing....
Laguna
Pioneer Square - Seattle, WA United StatesTry to imagine a time when every plate didn't have "Made in China" stamped on the back--difficult, we know. Upto the 1970s, America had a thriving ceramics industry with classic, colorful tableware being made by producers from...
Look Modern
Hosford-Abernethy - Portland, OR United StatesReader Suggested: Look Modern provides the largest selection and the top condition of Danish modern and mid-century modern furniture in the Pacific Northwest. They have designer pieces by Hans Wegner Arne Vodder, Peter Hvidt, Rosengren Hansen, Grete Jalk and American companies such as Herman Miller and Knoll. They...
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...
Machine Age
Fort Point Channel - Boston, MA United StatesReader Suggested: Machine Age is a true destination store, with amazing original, mid-twentieth designer furniture you won't find anywhere else in New England. The selection is huge, and the prices much softer than New York's... definitely worth the trip!
Machine Age Modern
Leslieville - Toronto, ON CanadaReader Suggested: Great collection of unique vintage pieces and new custom works. Eclectic before eclectic was cool. Plus Jake the owner is a super nice guy.
Millennium Decorative Arts
Cardozo Shaw - Washington, DC United StatesYou could think of the furniture, accessories and clothing that fill Millennium Decorative Arts as retro. We prefer to think of the store as a collection of items that will never, ever go out of style. (We dread the day when an Eames lounge...
Mode Moderne
Old City - Philadelphia, PA United StatesMode Moderne gives new meaning to the term "good old days." The store has assembled a top-notch collection of vintage, mostly mid-century modern, furniture and accessories that is testament to how good designers of that era were. While...
Modern Artifacts
Deco Ghetto - San Francisco, CA United StatesArtifacts, in this case, is not an overstatement. Modern Artifacts finds and sells the type of furniture, mostly from the mid-20th century, that can also be found in the permanent collections of modern art museums around the country. In addition...
Modernica
Mid City/Beverly - Los Angeles, CA United StatesSome people's heroes are Koufax, Robinson and Mayes. For other people it's Eames, Nelson and Noguchi. Modernica is for the latter group. Finding "original" pieces designed by such icons can be extremely difficult and...
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...
Modern Times
Ukrainian Village - Chicago, IL United StatesModern Times: because someone has to fill all the posh lofts and condos being built in Chicago. The vintage furnishings store is rife with top-notch examples of mid-century modern furnishings from the masters of the era. These are iconic pieces...
Mondo Trasho
Abbotsford - Abbotsford, Victoria AustraliaReader Suggested: Mondo Trasho stocks rare and unique vintage furniture and objects. Not your average 20th Century design store.
Monument
The Mission - San Francisco, CA United StatesMonument is just that to the world of mid-century furniture and accessories design. Th museum like space house an enviable line up of furnishings. Like any museum, some pieces are classics that any informed vintage furniture buyer will instantly...
Mostly Modern
Park Slope - Brooklyn, NY United StatesThe small storefront is not a great indication of the breadth and depth of furniture Mostly Modern carries. Mid-century modern is king here, with a variety of chairs, tables, casegoods, lamps, glassware, from Heywood-Wakefield, Knoll and other...
Neophobia
Uptown - New Orleans, LA United StatesReader Suggested: This is the only mid-century furniture store in New Orleans and I believe in Louisiana. It combines Danish modern with American retro styles. Just a very cool store in a city that's a little lacking right now.
Pazo Modern
Leslieville - Toronto, ON CanadaReader Suggested: Great vintage modern store in Toronto, Canada. If you are looking for furniture from the atomic age to the space age, look no further. Great selection of Italian furniture by Gaetano Pesce and Ettore Sottsass. Lots of mid century stuff: Eames, Nelson, Saarinen.
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?...