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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? ...
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? ...
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...
Who remembers when Broadway Panhandler was on Broadway? Oh well. The Panhandler is a great resource for chefs, and we still think it's one of the best kitchen supply stores in town... ...
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...
For most of the last century they were a fixture on the Bowery, but for the last few years Bowery Kitchen Supplies has catered to a more upscale clientele in the Chelsea Market. True to their origi...
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. 3r. Opened in 2004, 3r Living's Park Slope location has been keeping the 'hood (and the rest of us as well) well-stocked in the green department. The products that you’l...
Tiny Living continues to work hard at building up a design base in the East Village. Dedicated to maximizing the potential of small apartments in the city, Tiny Living is all about living with and ...
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...
High design & fun. Mxyplyzyk (pronounced Mix-ee-pliz-ik) continues to be one of best places in town to browse for beautiful, modern, FUN and cutting edge housewares (particularly for spur-of-the-mo...
Shopping at Apartment 48 is like visiting the home of a good friend. The small shop is broken up into rooms and is furnished as if someone lived there. The selection of goods is varied and thoughtf...
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...
In our opinion, most kettles really miss the boat. They are either too fancy, too heavy or too slick and the point of the exercise - boiling water - is overdone. For these reasons we have only bou...
Please go to our new link for Bowery Kitchen Supplies. Movin' up. For most of the last century they were a fixture on the Bowery, but Bowery Kitchen Supply has pulled up stakes and now caters to a ...
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...
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...
Shopping at Apartment 48 is like visiting the home of a good friend. The small shop is broken up into rooms and is furnished as if it is lived in. Kitchen goods in the kitchen, bedroom furnishings i...
Thanks to Geraldine, we now know about Futopia. She calls it "the ONLY hip, fun houseware/gift store in Greenpoint,Brooklyn," which is *certainly* a mark of distinction. We are just glad when a cool ...
Great for the urban gardener. Everyone says a similar thing about this East Village landmark: great selection, wish the prices were lower. It's all true. Saifee is a remarkable hardware and garden...
As far as we are aware, this store is now closed. 8/18/08 - CB Sitting smack in the middle of MePa, The Bodum store has quietly been announcing its expanded presence for the past few years. Founded ...
Guido and others report that Barry has passed away. We called and found out that Barry died suddenly last spring of a heart attack in his sleep, but his business partners are keeping the store open. "...
It's been around for years and not everyone knows it. Now it has moved to a new location. Bridge Kitchenware is a mecca for cooks who want fine kitchenware sold by people "who really know the field."...
(Note: This is an update review. First reviewed on 3.19.04) A few years ago we heard about Jeff Curran's online catalogue. It was a bit of a secret, and definitely not well known outside of the Paci...
Sushi Central. We just came across Seito Trading, which looks like a great little resource if you are looking for anything needed for a professional sushi kitchen. Japanese knives are the stars here...