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Fantasy & Fear in Contemporary Design
Victoria and Albert Museum

We're fascinated by the surreal photos of "Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design" — an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The exhibition presents recent ...

Donna Wilson & SCP
ICFF 2009

We spent forever in this booth. Not only did we chat for a long time with founder, Sheridan Coakley, we met and traded cards with Birgit Lohmann, founder of Designboom, and learned more about the c...

Manufactum
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Manufactum attempts to avoid what they call "the proliferation of paler imitations, produced by unimaginative competitors at the lowest possible price." Instead, their products are classic, excepti...

Pinch Designs: high-end elegance

We've just discovered Pinch Designs and have been salivating over their elegant furnishings ever since. Pinch Designs is the work of husband and wife team Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon, who are base...

Thorsten van Elten

Taz ah Mugs by Attua Aparicio Torinos I first wrote about Thorsten van Elten in 2004 and have enjoyed watching him grow his online design shop ever since. A Brit, who was frustrated by the lack of s...

Eyestorm

Damien Hirst: Beautiful, Galactic, Exploding Screenprint , 2001 A premier online source for limited-edition works by well known contemporary artists, Eyestorm aims to make artwork more available and...

Vintage Tableware: Steptoes Dog Antique & Vintage

This is our favorite time of the year. The weather is cooling off a bit. Everyone is back in the city and entertaining season is here. We love a chance to dress up a table, which is why we were psy...

flat: Housewares & Home Decor
Ljubljana, Slovenia

> >Enter Store Slideshow While we don't have much information about Flat in Ljubljana, we had to share this fun little store that we stumbled across during our whirlwind driving tour in Europe. The ...

New Old-Style French Club Chairs
Paris, France

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...

AT Europe Close-Up: Le Corbusier as Bench Press
Paris, France

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...

Inspiration: Eye Candy from Habitat

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 ...

William Garvey Wooden Sinks & Baths

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...

AT Europe: Paris - Hotel Particulier Montmartre

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...

AT Europe: London - Antique Shopping on Lillie Road

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...

AT Europe: Paris - Parisitic Brings Paris to Chez Vous

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...

AT Europe: Paris - Christmas Tree Bijou Light from Habitat

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...

Scandinavian Design Center

Please go to our new link for Scandinavian Design Center. 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...

AT Europe: London - VV Rouleaux Shop

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...

Chateaushop

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...

AT Europe: London - Zara Home Store

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...

AT Europe: London - Peter Jones Department Store

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 -...

AT Europe: Paris - Home Autour du Monde Boutique

It's impossible to pass the enticing windows of Home Autour du Monde in the Marais and not stop in for a peek......

AT Europe: London - Paul Smith's Westbourne House Flagship Store

(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...

AT Europe: London - Mint Shop

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...

The Collection

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...

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