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Gus* New York

Gus* is the Toronto-based furniture company making a name for itself in the States after years of working through US distributors from its Canadian base camp. This carefully-edited collection is no...

Matter

In visiting shops in Brooklyn, we felt compelled to revisit Matter, a design store in Park Slope (with a sister store in Soho) and to award it accolades for selling beautiful and cutting edge modern...

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...

Karkula

If you are looking for high-end, modern and sexy furniture, Karkula should be on your short list. Located in Tribeca, Karkula seems one step ahead of other furniture shops in terms of their design ...

DWR Annex: Design at a Discount

>> DWR Annex Gallery This past weekend, we made our first trek out to Secaucus, New Jersey to check out the Design Within Reach Annex. Located in a sea of outlet malls, the 12,000 square foot Annex ...

Desiron

Desiron continues to provide extremely chic, modern and earthy furnishings that fit quietly into a wide range of rooms. While they tend to play it safe with style, their furniture is "real furnitur...

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...

DWR: Design Within Reach

DWR has aged gracefully with only a few bumps along the way. Founded with the mission of making modern furniture accessible, they've delivered, spread like Starbucks and experimented with what mode...

Two Jakes: Furniture For the Office and Home

It's been nearly four years since we posted Williamsburg's Two Jakes. Two Jakes has a large inventory of used office furniture (much of it is suitable for home use). Vintage pieces like Saarinen ch...

The Horsemen Antiques: Biggest Smorgasbord on Atlantic

Looking for a desk and willing to venture into the biggest smorgasbord of antiques on Atlantic Avenue? Horsemen Antiques is an old school bricks and mortar operation (no website) that has been on A...

City Foundry: Antique and Fine Objects

If you like vintage industrial, you'll love City Foundry. Recently expanded to two store fronts along the northern side of Atlantic, CF is filled from floor to ceiling with metal everything from li...

Troy: European and American Furniture - CLOSED

As far as we are aware, this store is now closed. 8-19-2008 - CB When it used to be in SoHo, it was so nice to step into Troy and see the beautiful things. Their collection is exquisite and cover...

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...

Danish Design Store

Enter Slideshow of Really Nice Product Pics We love finding a new resource. This one is all Danish design, all the time: the Danish Design Store. We don't know where they hell they are located, ...

Fritz Hansen PK8 Chair

The PK8 Chair by Fritz Hansen has three legs. This has long been a practical design move, as three legs can never be unsteady. Like old milking stools, the chair will always sit without rocking, eve...

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 retailer Scandinavian Design Center. After all, we've poste...

Modernlink

Spot-on Vintage Combining impeccable taste for vintage modern and their own series of new designs, NoHo's Modernlink is an excellent furniture and design resource. Periodically browsing the showroom...

Moss

We say: For the cutting edge of hip and not necessarily beautiful modern design, Moss is the place to go. By alternate turns stuffy, pretentious, inventive, creative, and welcoming of the latest d...

UPDATED - GUS* New York

Please go to our new link for Gus* Design Group Mostly masculine, tightly constructed, a top performer in Canada, and coming out in Chelsea. Enter Slideshow No, not Brian Boitano� but Gus* th...

Get Back Inc.: Vintage Industrial Furniture & Lighting

Died and gone to heaven. That's how we felt when we found this place. Who knew that such a treasure trove existed within striking distance of NYC? Tipped off this week to Get Back Inc, we spent th...

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...

Circa50.com

Mid-century Market.Though it has a somewhat limited selection—seating, tables, storage, accessories, and lighting—Circa50.com represents the mid-century classics well. Eames, Bertoia, Saarinen, Aalto,...

Nova 68

With all the new modern online stores, how do you differentiate yourself? If your Nova 68 you do it with a hep name, a small, well picked stock and by skipping the cheap stuff. Nova 68 sells moder...

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 ...

Modernica

AE just wrote in asking why the hell we hadn't reviewed Modernica yet? Very good question, since it's a go-to shop and niche killer when it comes to Mid-C design. Born in LA selling vintage Mid-C p...