Modern Stores
A list of the coolest modern shops around.
Henrybuilt
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesHenry probably didn't make your new table, but Scott or another craftsman probably did. Name after founder Scott Hudson's grandfather, Hernybuilt hand builds furniture and kitchen cabinetry in its own workshop. The woodwork has a...
Henrybuilt
Downtown - Seattle, WA United StatesHenry probably didn't make your new table, but Scott or another craftsman probably did. Name after founder Scott Hudson's grandfather, Hernybuilt hand builds furniture and kitchen cabinetry in its own workshop. The woodwork has a...
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...
Inform Interiors
Downtown - Seattle, WA United StatesInfrom is that rare furniture store that pays homage to the past and looks toward the future. The past in this case is the iconic mid-century modern pieces in new production runs. This includes the best of Noguchi, Eames and their comrades....
Inform Interiors
Gastown - Vancouver, BC CanadaInfrom is that rare furniture store that pays homage to the past and looks toward the future. The past in this case is the iconic mid-century modern pieces in new production runs. This includes the best of Noguchi, Eames and their comrades. Next to these icons is new work--lighting, furniture...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Made
Dundas West - Toronto, ON CanadaReader Suggested: Great furniture store featuring local design stars, including one-of-a-kind and custom pieces.
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....
Mixture
Little Italy - San Diego, CA United StatesIf Mixture could only just move a few extra pieces out of their space and hand us the keys to the place we'd be all set. Situated in an inspiring warehouse loft are dozens of inspired modern furniture pieces and accessories, with an emphasis...
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...
MoMa Store
Midtown - New York, NY United StatesIt makes sense that best modern museum in the country has the best museum store as well. The MoMa Store has taken the idea of a museum store to another level, augmenting the usual books and design objects found at every other museum store with exclusive to MoMa design work, a rotating selection...
MoMa Store
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesIt makes sense that best modern museum in the country has the best museum store as well. The MoMa Store has taken the idea of a museum store to another level, augmenting the usual books and design objects found at every other museum store with...
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...
Moss
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesMore museum of industrial design than design store, Moss displays its collection of exquisite modernist home accessories like artwork. The long, bright, sanitary space has several rows of products for customers to snake through, each accompanied...
My Own Space
La Jolla - La Jolla, CA United StatesMy Own Space certainly has many, many ways to make a space your own. The shop carries a somewhat unconventional mixture of modern furnishings and accessories that includes tried and true American companies, some Italian design behemoths and a few...
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...
Plushpod
Third Street - Los Angeles, CA United StatesYes, if you furnished your home top to bottom with furniture and accessories from Plushpod your space would look rather severe--high-concept modern furniture has a way of going there. But that's not the point. At Plushpod there are hundreds...