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Posts tagged “cutting edge, futuristic”

Unica Home: Big, Modern, Fun

Showtime! What if you opened an online modern homestore in Las Vegas and offered every cool design manufacturer under the sun, along with products for children, pets as well as soap, watches and ar...

Walk on the Moon Rug from Atypyk
Paris, France

New from witty online French design retailer Atypyk, the beguiling 100% wool Walk on the Moon rug is decadent, whimsical and 3,000 euros. But they also sell plenty of clever, inexpensive products for ...

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...

Normann Copenhagen: You've Died and Gone to Modern Design Heaven

Day 2 in Copenhagen is complete design immersion... first stop Normann Copenhagen. If the name doesn't ring a bell, think about those cool products you may have played with and possibly purchased at ...

Farm21

"Modern rural" design might seem to be somewhat of a contradiction... At least in the U.S. But for Irish design types like Sasha Sykes, it seems modernity wasn't quite in such a rush to sell the famil...

Spring Design & Art

As if Brooklyn wasn't cool enough, along comes Spring Design & Art, the brainchild of Anna Consentino and Steve Butcher. Imagine a design shop more approachable than Moss, but just as experimental an...

Tiny Living

They've improved their website! Tiny Living has been getting pretty good reviews, and continues to work hard at building up a design base in the East Village. Roland says: Small but good selection ...

Ultra Modern

We were browsing for a glass coffee table when we came upon Ultra Modern. They deal in, well, ultra-modern furniture. They ship for free and much of their inventory is from Italy. And what a jackpot...

Alsa Corporation

For outrageous surfaces and finishes, take a look at Alsa Corporation. They supply "the world's most exotic finishes", from Eclipse wall paint to FXSheeting. Eclipse is a heat-activated, color-changin...

YouWorkForThem

Go-to-Graphics. With access to the internet, creative artists and designers have a great tool to distribute their work. Minneapolis-based design collective YouWorkForThem has made cutting-edge grap...

Nest: Modern Design Superstore

Browsing furniture sites is a lot more interesting when the products are cross-referenced. The British store Nest is a fantastic example of the secondary characteristics of a shopping site being more ...

Bblessing

(Another from Aaron!) As New York City constantly changes, restaurants and stores come and go. I love finding new boutiques and specialty storesthe design ideas in these carefully planned and usual...

Schrager Home: Closing Sale Starts Today!

Schrager Home is closing and putting everything on sale. As a result, we are retiring their posting and replacing it with this one sans comments. If you have any more news about Schrager, please email...

Dune

Nick Dine, son of the painter, and Richard Shemtov were young designers who started this huge, airy modern store and company in 1996 and had firmly established themselves in the design world by 2000...

Ligne Roset: Contemporary Modern Furnishings

Walking down Park Avenue South past the Ligne Roset store, you can't NOT turn your head and look in at the inventive, elegant and (dare I say it?) comfortable modern furniture on display. A favorite ...

Dutch By Design: Interior Design Classics for Tomorrow

Going deep into Dutch design territory, Venka just sent us a great link to the "witty and poetic" Dutch By Design, an online shop out of England that sells exactly what it says it does. Selling every...

Design Within Reach

(Note: This is an update review for DWR. First reviewed on 3.3.04) Company chooses friendly name to soften just-out-of-reach prices. Started by the San Francisco modern furniture mafia in the late ni...

Local 59 Durables: Steel Furniture

Last month a reader was looking for simple steel tables, this month we got the tip where to find them. From Kalamazoo comes Local 59, a small company with a desire to design good stuff and make it lo...

Design Public
Fresh New Design, Modern, Online, Furniture

Dept. of Modern Affairs. With the McDonald's like rise of DWR and other smaller outfits, Drew and Sina at Edge Modern decided that the field was too crowded and a new path needed to be carved: enter D...

MoMA Design Store

Not so Mini. To be honest, we long ago grew dissillusioned with the MoMA Design Store and felt it had lost its relevance as so many other shops sprung up with more creativity and more edge. We add t...

The Conran Shop

Awesome furniture store comes to party, but stands by door. I am sorry, I love Terence Conran's style and his shop, but east 59th street is so out of the way, Brooklyn looks better. Nevertheless, a ...

Troy: European and American Furniture - CLOSED

As far as we are aware, this store is now closed. 8-19-2008 - CB Modern Achilles heel. Mentioned by many as a favorite, this beautiful loft space with a procession of 19th century columns down the ...

The Magazine

Dot.com dinosaur. Before there was DWR, before there was EdgeModern, there was The Magazine. Founded in 1990 in the Bay Area to supply the region with the hottest modern furniture, rumor has it that...

UrbanPeel.com

Common uncommon. There are many modern furnishings stores online, but few of them have the distinct style and flair of Urban Peel. Based in Chicago, this collective of designers, artists and (of cou...

Pablo Designs

One man army. Pablo Pardo is a Venezuelan designer who set up his own shop in San Francisco in 1993. Since then he has been nailing the market for simple, useful designs in lighting, modular furnit...