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Funkiture: Handpainted Furniture & Accessories

Owner Caitlin Conlow recently opend Funkiture to have a showplace for her elaborately hand painted furniture. The tiny space in Williamsburg is piled high with unique dressers, cabinets and credenza...

FlyingBeds.com: Murphy Beds Gone Wild

This takes the cake. Out in Denver, CO, FlyingBeds.com is pushing the envelope. They have a whole line of beds that come out of the wall in various different ways using the Murphy bed mechanism. R...

Golden Calf: Chinese & American Antiques, Accessories

Inside this small shop on the corner of North Sixth and Wythe in Williamsburg is a blend of Chinese antiques, reupholstered vintage finds, and a wealth of unique home accessories that fill the spac...

Aero Studios: Thomas Obrien's Home Shop

"Understated luxury" coupled with "clean, modern... and traditional" are the mouthful of words used to describe this SoHo fixture, which continues to set the standard for downtown chic. Indeed, own...

Mothology

Stylish Accessories. We wish we would have known about Mothology when we answered the question, Where does one find Bell Jars? Mothology's collection of vintage-inspired decorative objects is a grea...

Crate and Barrel: Furniture and Housewares

We'll always have Paris.... A young couple on their honeymoon return to Chicago from Europe. The year? 1962. With their arms full of beautifully designed and inexpensive housewares that have never ...

Environment Furniture

Reclaimed Wood. Once a part of shared showroom space within ABC Carpet & Home, California-based Environment Furniture, Inc. has opened their own showroom in a space next door on Broadway. The majori...

GUS* New York

(Sale Alert! Through May 15 AT readers can get 10% off any upholstery order. Just mention Apartment Therapy when ordering.) Mostly masculine, tightly constructed, a top performer in Canada, and co...

Oly Studio

Looking for updated traditional chair for a client, we stumbled upon Oly Studio. Started by Brad Huntzinger and Kate McIntyre in 1999, Oly is based in the Bay Area, which - perhaps - gives them a li...

Ochre

A fresh organic modern import from London, Ochre is an offshoot of the London based design group by the same name and headed up by Harriet Maxwell McDonald and Andrew Corrie. With emphasis on th...

Brocade Home

A new tree grows in furniture land. Informed by Richele over at ATLA, we just discovered that after starting up the stunningly successful West Elm, Lisa Versacio has jumped ship to start up Brocade ...

Waterworks

If you are looking for something real nice for the bathroom, OR if you just want to browse and dream, a trip to Waterworks is advised. Originally a SoHo fixture, Waterworks set itself apart years ag...

Scott Jordan Furniture

Scott Jordan is on our must-visit list for really good wood furniture at affordable prices. Beginning as a furniture restoration business, Scott Jordan took his experience with fine wood furniture an...

Michele Varian: Colorful Software for Your Home

Pillows, pillows, pillows. Michele Varian has a real clear niche. Her store is a jewel box of brightly colored fabrics (silk, ultrasuede, velvet, muslin...) wrapped around pillows, throws, cushions a...

Jensen-Lewis: Contemporary Furniture

Jensen-Lewis has expanded its collection, which runs from funky to restrained contemporary. With a full range of well made and moderately priced furniture, this can be "one stop shopping." Couches are...

Garnet Hill: Cozy Bedding & Bathware

Grass fed up in New Hampshire, Garnet Hill used to be much more distinctive than it now is, offering only natural fiber bedding and clothing with a slightly European edge. In the past five years, i...

Curran: Hand Picked High End Furnishings

(Note: This is an update review. First reviewed on 3.19.04) A few years ago we heard about Jeff Curran's online catalogue. It was a bit of a secret, and definitely not well known outside of the Paci...

Julian Chichester: English Aristocrat

Makes Sting look modest. Question: Who else could write this on their website: What made the aristocratic Englishman, Julian Chichester, turn his back on the business world of the City of London an...

Q Collection

High green end. We were tipped off to the Q Collection by a friend who is designing soy candles for them. Q Collection is a luxurious, but environmentally sensitive, furniture, textile and accessory...

Huisraad NL: European Furniture at Affordable Prices

Nice furniture. The web site says it sells "nice furniture to nice people, nicely." You can't beat that, and they must be Dutch. They are. Huisraad is a real alternative to Room & Board, Crate & Ba...

Design & Comfort: Contemporary Furniture

We keep hearing about Design & Comfort, but we have never bought anything there. Like many other furniture stores that cater only to New Yorkers, it has a little bit for everyone with a distinctive...

Basics Furniture

NOW CLOSED (ReEdited on 10.25.07 - MGR) Note to self: never use the word "cheap." Basics Furniture is up for review today and inclusion into the Stores Guide, after having been mentioned by a numbe...

Nova Zembla: Modern Furniture (and classic right around the corner)

Funky LA for your home. Nova Zembla is two stores. We went to one of them (the modern one) and it reminded us of LA. One has a large selection of classic furniture and resides on Atlantic Avenue, w...

Cosmo's Cosmos

Kinder, gentler vintage modern.... For generations, the Gorlick family operated a furniture manufacturing business in a block-long building on Wythe Street in Williamsburg. When the last Gorlick, Jeff...

Room & Board

In the depths of our furniture hunting depressions, we have been touched by the many words of encouragement and suggestions. More than once, the name "Room & Board" came up, with links. Clicking th...

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