Mid-century Modern Stores
A list of the coolest mid-century modern shops around.
Most Recent Stores
Retro Gallery
Miracle Mile - Los Angeles, CA United StatesReader Suggested: Retro Gallery specializes in Mid-Century items from Europe and the United States, with an emphasis on pieces made during the 1960's & 1970's. They have large collections of West Germany pottery; Italian, American, and Scandinavian glass as well as a host of other accessories....
Bloodline NYC
Lower East Side - New York, NY United StatesBloodline NYC is a mix of Danish Modern , Industrial , Mid Century Modern and American Farmhouse styles. However, This does not mean Bloodline is a chockablock, they carefully curate potential acquisitions. But, even though most other their merchindise was designed before even our parents where...
Open Air Modern
Greenpoint - Brooklyn, NY United StatesReader Suggested: After serving the Lorimer Street/Williamsburg neighborhood for nearly 4 seasons, Open Air Modern has made a new home at 606 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Located at the head of McCarren Park, around the corner from the G train at...
Boommodern
Cleveland Heights - Cleveland Heights, OH United StatesReader Suggested: Boommodern was created in 1997 as a permanent retail space to feature and sell a diverse collection of 2Oth Century Modern furniture. They sell decorative arts, along with inspired industrial, primitive and architectural objects. These objects are personally selected by the partners, with an...
WHO NEW
Lawrenceville - Pittsburgh, PA United StatesReader Suggested: Pittsburgh's largest selection of mid-century modern design including furniture, lighting, housewares, decor, and art. Lots of strange and wonderful oddities as well. From high-end to kitsch, there's a good eye at work here. The guys who own the shop are really friendly and obviously...
Le Grenier
Greenpoint - Brooklyn, NY United StatesOne of the Greenpoint waterfront's newest additions is Le Grenier, a boutique focused on industrial-aged gems. The boutique is your classic Brooklyn antique store with a bit of morbid side. Imagine something a single sailor might own in a ghost story from the turn of the century. Don't...
Janus Home
Hosford-Abernethy - Portland, OR United StatesReader Suggested: We are located in a great old warehouse in the heart of Portland's Central Eastside Design District, just across the river from downtown Portland. We specialize in restored vintage furniture--mostly dating from the 1950s-60s, but encompassing pieces from the turn of the century through the...
Lampedo
Mitte - Berlin, GermanyReader Suggested: Real Italian vintage furniture from the 20's, to the 70's. Great design pieces by Ponti or Parisi but also reasonable and cool stuff.
Room Service Chicago
Edgewater - Chicago, IL United StatesReader Suggested: I'm not sure I love or hate coming to furniture stores that are infinitely cooler than my real house will ever be. If I was a real grown up and not spiraling down the endless, impoverished abyss of academia, I would shop here all the time. Not only would I have stylish end tables and one of...
Uber Modern
Ukrainian Village - Chicago, IL United StatesReader Suggested: A great vintage modern furniture store with fair prices and good selection.
Space Modern
Downtown - Fort Lauderdale, Florida United StatesReader Suggested: This store is a hidden gem! It's located near downtown Fort Lauderdale and the beach and carries a fantastic array of American and European mid-century modern furniture. Lots of interesting pieces, most are designer labeled, and some are quite unusual. They move pretty quick through...
Oak Street Vintage
Downtown - Eugene, Oregon United StatesReader Suggested: Oak Street Vintage is Eugene's first mid-century modern shop; the closest otherwise is 1 1/2 hours away in Portland. The shop is set up in a 1930's house set back from the road and the displays are great. They have clothes, jewelry, LPs, furniture, lighting, kitchenware, pottery and...
Arte Moderne
Glen Ellyn - Glen Ellyn, IL United StatesReader Suggested: We are the owners of Arte Moderne, and a first in the Chicago burbs! Our unique offering in fine mid-century furniture, European and US pottery, lighting, art and objects is hand-picked by us to reflect and satisfy the tastes of our growing audience. Our unique setting in an underground shopping...
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.
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...
Gala Home Furnishings
University Heights - San Diego, CA United StatesReader Suggested: Excellent selection of mid-century furniture and miscellaneous period items-lamps, pillows, dishes, etc. Great prices. Convenient location on Alabama St in North Park/University Heights. Andre, the owner, is very knowledgeable and helpful and will find pieces for you if you ask him.
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!
Zwischenzeit
Prenzlauer Berg - Berlin, GermanyReader Suggested: It's my own shop and I still love to deal with that cool furniture. The prices are fair and the furniture is more or less in perfect or fine condition. I have design classics and "normal" stuff from the '50s, '60s and '70s. Furniture, accessories, lamps, records.
Filter
King Street East - Toronto, ON CanadaReader Suggested: A wonderful collection of mid-century modern pieces, industrial do-overs and cool and classic stuff.
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.