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Steel Lace Shelves by Studiobility

Inspired by traditional Icelandic woodcarvings and her grandmother's lace, Gudrun Lilja has designed these fancy decorative shelves from steel. I love the play with light and shadows and think a wh...

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...

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...

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...

Tiny Living
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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
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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...

Blu Dot
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The award-winning Blu Dot has been around since 1997 and is the entrepreneurial creation of three Williams College friends with a passion for art, architecture and design who, when attempting to fur...

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...

Intérieurs

Intérieurs defies categorization. As the brainchild and testing ground of designer Francine Gardner, her Franklin Street shop offers a unique, globally inspired aesthetic vision that artfull...

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...

Just Scandinavian

We were drawn to this airy and light-filled shop in Tribeca by a chance encounter with their website. Featuring both furniture and accessories from Scandinavian countries, the store displays all of...

CLOSED! La Cafetiere: European Style for your Home

As far as we are aware, this store is now closed. Madeleine Guedj, the owner of La Cafetiere, will tell you that color is good and mixing colors is even better. Having opened her Chelsea store in 1...

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......

Ochre
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A fresh and modern import from London, Ochre is an offshoot of the London based design group by the same name headed up by Harriet Maxwell McDonald and Andrew Corrie......

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...

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