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Unica Home: Big, Modern, Fun

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 children, pets as well as soap, watches and ar...

Best Rattan Bistro Chairs 2008: High & Low
Email from 4.22.08

I really like these chairs: traditional French bistro chairs. They're the sort of thing you fall in love with when visiting France and vow to yourself that you'll have them one day in your kitchen......

Mc & Co: Eclectic Home Accessories and Artwork

On a sunny afternoon, the bright white space of Williamsburg's Mc & Co is alive with light. Carrying an assortment of table- and house-wares from independent designers and artists, the shop always h...

Two Jakes: Furniture For the Office and Home

It's been nearly four years since we posted Williamsburg's Two Jakes. Two Jakes has a large inventory of used office furniture (much of it is suitable for home use). Vintage pieces like Saarinen ch...

Naked Chair from Alberto Colzani

The Naked Chair from designer Alberto Colzani makes a good alternative to a classic Bertoia wire chair. In addition to being visually light and extremely sturdy, the Naked Chair is also stackable......

City Foundry: Antique and Fine Objects

If you like vintage industrial, you'll love City Foundry. Recently expanded to two store fronts along the northern side of Atlantic, CF is filled from floor to ceiling with metal everything from li...

Clio Home

As really good housewares stores in Soho disappear, a new buds bloom. The diminutive Clio Home is a favorite and a lot like its twin double around the corner (Global Table), but it has a finenes...

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 retailer Scandinavian Design Center. After all, we've poste...

Jay East: Chinese Imports

Eastern Influence. 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...

Rejuvenation Lighting & Hardware

Light up. Pursuing a "a passionate love affair with antique lighting, hardware, and old houses since 1977," Rejuvenation is a great resource if you like the classic look. They've just updated thei...

Crate and Barrel: Furniture and Housewares

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 ...

De La Espada: Solid Wood Modern Furniture

Spanish Minimalism meets American Wood. 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 wind...

Bart Bettencourt: Green Design & Supplies

The Godfather of NYC Green. We met Bart Bettencourt a few years back at Brooklyn Designs and added him to the blog right away. Since then, green has grown and so has his business and reach. Since ...

One Earth One Design

A sustainable lifestyle store, One Earth One Design is located in Seattle, Washington. But don't worry, the green shop has an online branch, too....

Environment Furniture

Reclaimed Wood. Once a part of shared showroom space within ABC Carpet & Home, California-based Environment Furniture, Inc. has opened their own showroom in a space next door on Broadway. The majori...

Environment 337

For every room of your home, Environment 337 has something. A visit to one of their shops in Manhattan or Brooklyn or a look at their website shows that they are all about every facet of the home en...

Modernlink

Spot-on Vintage Combining impeccable taste for vintage modern and their own series of new designs, NoHo's Modernlink is an excellent furniture and design resource. Periodically browsing the showroom...

Moss

We say: For the cutting edge of hip and not necessarily beautiful modern design, Moss is the place to go. By alternate turns stuffy, pretentious, inventive, creative, and welcoming of the latest d...

Manhattan Loft

Contemporary furniture abounds at this local shop Utah shop, Manhattan Loft. Our favorite is the Kiss leather platform bed, which would be great for a studio apartment, functioning as a bed, seatin...

ABC Carpet & Home

How could we have forgotten? When we interview clients, we always ask them to name their favorite home store in NYC. About 75% of the time the answer is ABC. After years of growth (over 100 actual...

Ultra Modern

We were browsing for a glass coffee table when we came upon Ultra Modern. They deal in, well, ultra-modern furniture. They ship for free and much of their inventory is from Italy. And what a jackpot...

Sundance Catalog

Definitely not modern. The worn and aged appearance of most products at Sundance could really add a rustic warmth to your kitchen, bedroom, or dining room. The store also carries apparel and persona...

125West.com

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...

The Grove Unfinished Furniture

Hardwood furniture is not always affordable. However, some of the pieces at The Grove offer a glimmer of hope! They have a slew of unfinished, simple, hardwood furniture. Though traditional in style...

Apartment 48

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...

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