The club chair craze 10 years ago drove up prices and drove down the stock of the authentic 1930s classic Fauteuil Club. While you can still find them at the brocante or on French ebay, used club chai...
Our recent house tour of Patrick and Julian's Montmartre loft showed a home full of high design that wasn't just for show. Like this adjustable Le Corbusier classic that the men use as a home gym in t...
When we lived in England during college, our favorite store was Habitat. (We still have the catalog from autumn of 1998 that we picked up in a London store!) Gregory from ATLA even posted Habitat's ...
Beautiful idea requiring lots of maintenance? Not so, says William Garvey. A longtime tradition in English butler's pantries, teak sinks are watertight, long lasting and absolutely quiet. It's ju...
If you're looking for a stylish new design hotel, check out this five-room converted maison particulier that opened last summer in Montmartre, with artist-designed spaces like the “Curtain of hair...
Enter Slideshow A friend with a taste for antiques just bought a house in Notting Hill and has a lot of furniture to buy. So he asked me to come along to one of his favorite antique shopping desti...
If you love Paris from afar (or simply wish you had a better Parisian view), Emmanuel Desormeaux and Jérémie Scart from Parisitic (of "I love rien. I’m parisien" fame) have created a line of tro...
For Parisians who don't have the room or the inclination for a real tree but like its cozy holiday symbolism, the new Arbre Lumineux Bijou from Habitat comes with golden or reddish lights, and can b...
Super-Store. With a mission to "market and sell Scandinavian Design worldwide" we thought it was time to devote a store post to the online retailer Scandinavian Design Center. After all, we've poste...
Devoted to passementerie (the French term for ornamental trimmings), VV Rouleaux is the ultimate resource for embellishing home accessories and furnishings (as well as your wardrobe)... - To All A...
In the latest issue of Living Etc. , we were taken with Paris doctor Elizabeth Perraud's apartment. A closer look reveals that much of the design of her home was done herself. We were elated when we...
A reliable, cost-conscious address offering designer knock-offs for the fickle and short of cash, Zara Home is a great source for fulfilling interior decorating trends without breaking the piggy ban...
You can learn a lot about a culture, or reinforce your pre-conceived ideas, by visiting a mainstream department store like Peter Jones on Sloane Square... - To All AT Europe Posts -...
It's impossible to pass the enticing windows of Home Autour du Monde in the Marais and not stop in for a peek......
(Starting today, the NYTimes gets 1.5 inches thinner, while we get fatter. AT:Europe goes to two days a week, Monday and Wednesday. Go digital!) Paul Smith wanted a flagship store that would feel l...
Ask design-conscious friends in London where they go to find one-of-a-kind gifts, and the first response you are likely to get is Mint. The two-level shop on Wigmore Road has an exquisitely edited s...
Take a shopping trip to France without leaving the net. We recently found The Collection and we're won over by their home decor products. Though the shop is in France, they ship worldwide and have a...
Amsterdam design pilgrims stop first at The Frozen Fountain, a reference since 1985 that sells contemporary furniture, lighting, fabrics and home accessories, with international design names and a ...
For a blast from the past, browse the vintage wallpaper at 5QM. The German shop sells vintage wallpaper from the fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties. Three vintage designs are featured above....
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 ...
We found our latest favorite clock, the KA4122,(above) at Seeds in Great Barrington, and it is made by Karlsson. So, we bought it and immediately googled all the information on the box when we got...
If you are nuts about gardening and want to get sucked in by some French gardening chic, we recommend combing through the webpages of Le Prince Jardinier or stopping by one of their shops when you are...
Heat where you want it. Radiators seem to have been born in England. MHS is the second company (the other is Bisque) that we have stumbled across that sells super cool radiators. This one pictu...
To The Trade Dept. We get a good number of catalogues and resources that are to the trade only, and despite their exclusivity we want to get them out there. Starting once a week (Wednesdays), our st...
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