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Northwards Design Studio: Pythagoras Stool
ICFF 2009

These stools were really nice. We met Chris Jackson in his booth, which was filled with more than a dozen of his Pythagoras Stools. Each stool is made from three pieces of powder coated steel and ...

Kiu Diseño del Entorno
ICFF 2009

This small collection of furniture is by the San Salvadorean team of Claudio Segovia and Jenny Menjivar, and it caught our attention from aisles away. Beautifully conceived of opposing forms and ma...

Koi Design
ICFF 2009

We've always been drawn to Koi's thick leather chairs on wire bases that remind us of Eames or Saarinen. This year we found Koi's founders, Kirstin Jones and Adam Bottomley, out of their booth and ...

Andrew Moe: Handmade Furniture from Reclaimed Lumber
ICFF 2009

This was one of our favorite new booths. Andrew Moe showed off a super simple line of ash furniture, The Oslo Line, made of reclaimed lumber that had relatively low price points, compared to the su...

VOOS: New York City Furniture Design

click thumbnails for larger pics The amazing weather this weekend made it a great time to take a walk over the Williamsburg Bridge and check out the new VOOS Furniture store on North Third. Just west...

Andrianna Shamaris
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Unlike the increasingly corporate and buttoned down shops taking over the area, Andrianna Shamaris' primitive home furnishings shop feels like the personal project of an artist. Her products are lu...

Velocity Art and Design
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Moroso Sardinia Rug Velocity is a mid-century modern haven, and a definite favorite with us — even if they are in Seattle. They offer free shipping on orders over $50! They carry an amazing s...

De La Espada
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When you walk into De La Espada you feel like you are either in dry, hot Spain or dry, hot Arizona — and you feel like you are in a huge, airy home with windows overlooking a great view. Even...

Unica Home
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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 and pets as well as soap, watches and artwork? ...

Jay East: East Asian Antiquities
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We had a good time browsing through the DUMBO location of Jay East this past weekend. Imported Chinese furniture, artwork and decorative items fill the garage-like space. Stocking both antique and r...

Anthropologie
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We are always impressed with Anthropologie. Their collection of antique and new dinnerware, glassware, curtains, bedding, rugs, lighting, hardware and furniture is beautiful, whimsical and colorful...

Wyeth
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Before Wyeth moved over to Spring Street, we used to ogle the super cool industrial chic objects, lighting, machinery and furniture that seemed custom ordered for a huge SoHo Rockstar loft. Prices w...

ABC Carpet & Home
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When we ask people to name their favorite home store in NYC, about 75% of the time the answer is ABC. After years of growth (over 100 actually) from a simple carpet store, ABC has become a huge, de...

The Conran Shop
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The Conran Shop has been a standby resource for home furnishings, inspiration and household gifts since Terence Conran opened the New York City location in 1999. Nestled next to the Queensboro Bridg...

Boca Grande
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Boca Grande has been a fixture in Soho since 1987 by selling timeless, classic wood furniture suitable for world travelers. A favorite of a number of readers, Boca Grande has four floors of furnit...

The Future Perfect
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If you talk about design in Brooklyn at any length, The Future Perfect will come up. With the borough bustling with design talent, it is surprising that the stores were so slow to come along, but si...

Scandinavian Design Center
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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 posted many prod...

Wisteria: Antiques and Decorative Items for the Home
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Wisteria sells unique, eccentric and international-inspired home furnishings and accessories, like the Bird Chest shown above. If you are a home accessories buff, you might want to check them out......

Wonk
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Among Dumbo's many furniture stores, Wonk shines as a great place to go for well-designed, functional and modern pieces. Started in 2004, all of their products are made locally in Brooklyn and are t...

Hive: Modern Design for the Home
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Based out of Portland, Hive continues to be a top online pick for design enthusiasts of all kinds, with a carefully edited collection that includes Bauhaus design from Breuer and Gropius, Scandina...

BDDW: Handmade American Furniture
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Tyler Hays (painter and sculptor) is good. His company, BDDW, fuses the hard angles of modern design with an innate understanding of natural elements. Designed and manufactured with imagination an...

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...

Mondo Cane: 20th Century Design and Modernism

Mondo Cane is a beautiful, high end modernist store in Tribeca. The store is a showpiece in and of itself, specializing in an eclectic selection of 20th Century design......

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...

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