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Vinny Ciambriello: House Painter

Vinny Ciambriello has been an Apartment Therapy go-to painter on small jobs for a number of years. A musician by night, he paints by day and does a great job with clean walls. Exacting about the fini...

Unica Home: Big, Modern, Fun

Please go to our new link for Unica Home. 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 chi...

Moving Furniture via Mass Transit

With all the moving going on, we look around our home, realizing that three of our largest furnishings reached our place via the MTA. Our dining table (expands to seven-foot length), drafting table ...

Rachel Ray At Home on Ice at Bryant Park

The ice skating rink at Bryant Park was recently transformed into the set for Rachel Ray's show. There were a few transformations that made the rink into a home-of-ice......

Angel Street Thrift Shop

Patrick McKeon is the Tibor Kalman of thrift shops... Ever since Housing Works introduced the concept of "Salvation Armani" in the mid-1990s, NYC thrift shops have been drifting upmarket. At Angel Str...

Jensen-Lewis: Contemporary Furniture

Jensen-Lewis has expanded its collection, which runs from funky to restrained contemporary. With a full range of well made and moderately priced furniture, this can be "one stop shopping." Couches are...

MarthaSturdy.com

Another Martha? Hailing from Vancouver, here's a source that is completely new: Martha Sturdy. With great color, organic shapes and an "ethnic" style (according to her), Martha Sturdy makes cool ta...

Stitch Chicago

Chi Town. When we visited friends in Chicago this winter they took us to Stitch to show us where they bought the furniture in their house. Very nice. With a selective eye, Stitch has taken the bes...

Fetch

More pampering. It seems as if the "pampered pet" are the mots de la moment, if you catch what I mean. Here is another notable. Fetch sells gourmet treats, fashionable accessories and even books an...

PillowsandThrows.com

Please go to our new link for PillowsandThrows.com. Just the soft stuff. This just came in from Pamela, and since we are feeling so blissed out this morning after a very late night in the office, we...

Spotlight: Jonathan Wigmore

Japanese + Long Island City. Lighting designers are a strange bunch. Obsessive, they find a niche and then try every variation they can possbily imagine. We find this is true of Jonathan Wigmore's ...

Elsewares: Home Accessories Local and New

Please go to our new link for Elsewares. Think global, act local. Ryan Deussing has been popping us with emails for a few weeks now, so it is time we paid attention. He started Elsewares only a few...

Velocity Art & Design: Modern Furniture From Seattle

The best of the West. We kept hearing so many good things about Velocity Art & Design from readers that we just had to enter them into the Stores Guide...even if they are in Seattle. Velocity is ...

Design & Comfort: Contemporary Furniture - CLOSED

As far as we are aware, this store is now closed. 8/18/08 - CB We keep hearing about Design & Comfort, but we have never bought anything there. Like many other furniture stores that cater only to...

Fireslate: 400 Tons of Cool Countertop

Did you behave in high school lab? If you are sweating over what to use as a counter top material in your kitchen, here's something else to think about. You can consider marble, formica, butcher blo...

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...

ISS Designs: Modern System Shelving

ISS there another choice? Yes there is. We have used Elfa Shelving (inexpensive and beautiful) from the Container Store time and time again, and once installed Vitsoe Shelving (expensive and beautif...

Pure Design: Modern Furniture from Canada

Italian styling from the Great White North. Who would have guessed that Canada would be turning out crops and crops of modern furniture designers? Well they are. In addition to establishing themsel...

Rhoom: Modern Furniture L.A. Style

From the Golden State. With the internet, furnishing your apartment has changed for good. While we focus primarily on New York area stores, any good shop with a clear website and ease of shipping...

Bo Concept: Danish Modern Furniture

What if Ikea had a fancy older brother? Direct from Denmark comes Bo Concept, the equally vowel challenged first cousin to that other large furniture company. We have not had a chance to visit Bo, b...

Andrea Rich: Finding You And Letting Go of Your Stuff

Sometimes you just need a little help. Cleaning out your apartment or getting a grip on clutter is often much more of an emotional process than it is a simple "I'll just clean up" type of process. W...

CB2: Son of Crate & Barrel

What do you get when you cross Urban Outfitters, West Elm and Conran's? Crate & Barrel's founders, Gordon and Carole Segal, opened their newest store CB2 in Chicago (their hometown) a little while ag...

Koo de Kir: Furniture & Accessories

Boston gets its groove back. Funny how Boston never shows up on the map, in terms of cool interior design and notable shops? Well, last week a client mentioned Koo de Kir as the place where she had ...

Flor: Good Carpet In a Box

Ingenuity said to be a hallmark of New Yorkers, environmentalism not. I heard about Interface (the company behind Flor) years ago, as the CEO and founder, Ray Anderson, had taken it on as a personal m...

West Elm: Furniture & Accessories

Country mouse gives birth to city mouse. West Elm was born a few years ago by the people at Pottery Barn, which is in turn owned by the people at Williams-Sonoma. The reason for the birth? No one had ...

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