Modern Stores
A list of the coolest modern shops around.
Propeller
Hayes Valley - San Francisco, CA United StatesPropeller is not just another nonsensical, hipper-than-thou store name. To us at least, it refers to the careers or promising young designer the store helps propel. The furniture and accessories store is a slightly jumbled assortment of...
Property
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesAt Property, the love for modern furniture runs deep. The boxiest of tables sits next to the curviest of chairs, the most playful coffee tables commiserates with the most serious of sofas. The most whimsical of chandelier hangs over the simplest...
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...
Room Service
Pasadena - Pasadena, CA United StatesFull dozens classic modern furniture pieces and hundreds of chic accessories, Room Service is one stop shop for those seeking a fun, modern lifestyle. Affordable reproductions of iconic pieces by Eames, Nelson, Van der Rohe and others sit among the store's own line of modern furniture. The...
Room Service
La Brea - Los Angeles, CA United StatesFull dozens classic modern furniture pieces and hundreds of chic accessories, Room Service is one stop shop for those seeking a fun, modern lifestyle. Affordable reproductions of iconic pieces by Eames, Nelson, Van der Rohe and others sit among...
Room Service
Palm Springs - Palm Springs, CA United StatesFull dozens classic modern furniture pieces and hundreds of chic accessories, Room Service is one stop shop for those seeking a fun, modern lifestyle. Affordable reproductions of iconic pieces by Eames, Nelson, Van der Rohe and others sit among...
SF MOMA Store
SoMa - San Francisco, CA United StatesThe store of San Francisco's pride-and-joy museum is, by extension, rather well appointed. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's (MOMA) store is stocked certainly with books and postcards of the art of display, but more interesting is...
Stylegarage
West Queen West - Toronto, ON CanadaDoes you home's style need a tune up? Try the Stylegarage. The tasteful furniture store offers its own line of furniture and accessories emphasizing premium materials and careful construction. Dining room tables use wired safety glass on...
Symmetry
Wicker Park - Chicago, IL United StatesAsian and modern furniture stores usually occupy diametrically opposed areas of the home design landscape. Symmetry effortlessly marries the two aesthetics as if they were meant for each other all their lives. The decidedly grown-up store--we...
The Future Perfect
Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY United StatesThe vision of the future presented to us in TV and movies always seems to involve one-piece body-hugging spandex suits and furnishings whose purpose is not outwardly apparent. We much prefer the future as presented by The Future Perfect. The...
Twentieth
Mid City/Beverly - Los Angeles, CA United StatesTwentieth rents its furniture for movie and TV sets with regularity and there are no shortage of pieces that are in the compact car price range. But that shouldn't stop you from stopping by anyway. The huge store is a space worth visiting...
Unica Home
South Las Vegas - Las Vegas, NV United StatesYou want to visit Egypt, Paris, New York, ancient Rome, Venice, the stratosphere, the circus and Celine Dion in one trip. You know where to go. You want to see every desk, bed, rug, lamp, chair and bookcase currently manufactured by a modern design company. You know where to go. Unica Home...
Urban Ease
Belltown - Seattle, WA United StatesUrban we'll give them, but the furniture at Urban Ease is not the type that puts one at ease. It's the type that demands your attention. The store collects hardware and fixtures from Europe, along with furniture made across the US to...
Wonk
Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY United StatesWhile modern furniture outfits favor pieces with slim and slender lines, Wonk's designs are kind of plump and block-y. While most wooden modern furniture comes in deep, rich shades, Wonk's units are often light and fresh. Wonk offers its own interpretation of what modern furniture can...
Wonk
DUMBO - Brooklyn, NY United StatesWhile modern furniture outfits favor pieces with slim and slender lines, Wonk's designs are kind of plump and block-y. While most wooden modern furniture comes in deep, rich shades, Wonk's units are often light and fresh. Wonk offers...
Yolk
Silverlake - Los Angeles, CA United StatesThere's a good chance that any two adjacent design items at Yolk were produced thousands of miles apart, are made of completely different materials, and are in completely different price ranges. Such is the global, frenetic world of product...
Zinc Details
Pacific Heights - San Francisco, CA United StatesIf you know anything about San Francisco, it's that a design store where everyone wears black turtlenecks will be a miserable failure. The owners of Zinc Details appreciate the wear flowers in you hair attitude of San Francisco. All you have...
Zinc Details
Pacific Heights - San Francisco, CA United StatesIf you know anything about San Francisco, it's that a design store where everyone wears black turtlenecks will be a miserable failure. The owners of Zinc Details appreciate the wear flowers in you hair attitude of San Francisco. All you have...