Modern Stores
A list of the coolest modern shops around.
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BDDW
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesWhile most companies use SoHo to build massive self-aggrandizing temples, BDDW, a small furniture company out of Brooklyn, built out a space that's more organic than ego-centric. It is none the less a place to worship beautiful wood and...
Architectural Elements
The Mission - San Francisco, CA United StatesArchitechtural Elements is the store with the courage of its convictions. The look they present is unwaveringly modern, from the block sofas to the dramatic lighting cast in steel or ceramic, from the substantial wooden dining room tables to the...
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...
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...
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...
Area
Embarcadero - San Francisco, CA United StatesReader Suggested: Area is an interior accessories store. It features a wide variety of items beautifully displayed by the owner John. With a keen eye John carries items that will please any interior designer or consumer. He also seeks out handcrafted and local products that fit well into modern interiors.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Commute Home
West Queen West - Toronto, ON CanadaYour commute home never looked so good. Commute Home deals in the modern furniture of your dreams. Chic accessories and art pieces abound, but the stars of the show are their custom-built tables, benches and beds. Simple lines come together...
Fluid Living
Distillery District - Toronto, ON CanadaModern furniture stores are known for the sparse merchandising, 3-items-in-a-room syndrome shall we call it. At Fluid Living the furniture is certainly modern but they opted for the 3000-item-in-a-really-large-room business model. The 6000...
Area 51
Capitol Hill - Seattle, WA United StatesArea 51 is the furniture store those other furniture stores don't want you to know about. Practically the size of a small lake, the warehouse mixes a selection of vintage furniture with modern, vintage-inspired furniture and accessories....
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...