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Dull blades make a dull home. Time to cook for the guests you have coming in two hours, and your knives just can't cut it. How many expensive knife blocks have I seen in client's homes, and when was...
Dull blades make a dull home. Time to cook for the guests you have coming in two hours, and your knives just can't cut it. How many expensive knife blocks have I seen in client's homes, and when was...
We'll always have Paris.... A young couple on their honeymoon return to Chicago from Europe. The year? 1962. With their arms full of beautifully designed and inexpensive housewares that have never ...
Green by Design. Lehman's Non-Electric Catalog is a source for green goods that has been around for a long time. With over two-hundred new products "for simple self-sufficient living," and temptingly...
Products that make life easier? Well, we don't know about that. But that's what Solutions claims to offer. On browsing their products, however, we found mostly space-wasting gimmicks. There are some...
A hodge podge of specialty items for the home and garden. That's how we'd best define 125West.com, the online catalog of items that are hard to find in stores. The site is organized by rooms of the h...
Sitting smack in the middle of MePa, The Bodum store has quietly been announcing its expanded presence for the past few years. Founded in 1944 by Peter Bodum, the family owned company has grown from ...
Awesome furniture store comes to party, but stands by door. I am sorry, I love Terence Conran's style and his shop, but east 59th street is so out of the way, Brooklyn looks better. Nevertheless, a ...
Butch. Looking around for butcher block maintenance tips we came across Old World Butcher Block. Their folks sell fine, fine butcher block online and devote their business to serving God. They h...
Snip the turkey. We recieved this comment last week after skgr posted on knives - Nourishment: Arm Yourself! - and agree that a good pair of scissors is a must in the kitchen. As any surgeon can te...
Dot.com dinosaur. Before there was DWR, before there was EdgeModern, there was The Magazine. Founded in 1990 in the Bay Area to supply the region with the hottest modern furniture, rumor has it that...
Cucumber madness. We have been noticing that pickling is in the air a lot lately. Perhaps you haven't heard, but the end of summer is the beginning of canning and preserving season, and word has bee...
In honor of back to school week, it is time to list Pearl River in our Stores Guide. A longtime staple of the Chinatown/Lower Broadway shopping scene, Pearl River is a store you might not walk into ...
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...