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Check out this post on Lifehacker. Brian Dehamer needed a work space, but with the arrival of a new baby extra space was something they just couldn’t find inside their house…...
Check out this post on Lifehacker. Brian Dehamer needed a work space, but with the arrival of a new baby extra space was something they just couldn’t find inside their house…...
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...
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...
Please go to our new link for City Foundry. 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 f...
We've spotted tons of people doing this on Flickr. They're setting up their desktop images to match what's behind them, making the computer screen look transparent. Are we missing something? Has thi...
Hello AT, Like many New Yorkers, I'm searching for a multi-purpose piece of furniture. I need something that can serve as a desk for my laptop, and generous storage for my piles of random files and...
Old barn. Moooo! We found Tony Garcia and Barntiques a number of years ago at the Chelsea Flea Market, where he continues to sell his barn wood tables. He has become a great resource for us! Handm...
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...
Please go to our new link for 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 re...
Please go to our new link for 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, cr...
These folks have a good eye. In the last five years, we've seen many children's shops pop up online, and some have sold clean, simple design born of a wave of optimism and belief in a "fresh start" th...
Please go to our new link for Shimna Shimna is a lovely mystery. Recently popping up on Lafayette street, they have managed to create a whole new look and feel for the most basic of shapes and mat...
As far as we are aware, this store is now closed. 8/18/08 - CB It is an odd concept to run a classic furniture retail store and a contemporary art gallery in the same space, but David Allen Gallery...
With all the new modern online stores, how do you differentiate yourself? If your Nova 68 you do it with a hep name, a small, well picked stock and by skipping the cheap stuff. Nova 68 sells moder...
Nick Dine, son of the painter, and Richard Shemtov were young designers who started this huge, airy modern store and company in 1996 and had firmly established themselves in the design world by 2000...
Please go to our new link for Ligne Roset. Walking down Park Avenue South past the Ligne Roset store, you can't NOT turn your head and look in at the inventive, elegant and (dare I say it?) comfortab...
Please go to our new link for Boca Grande. Boca Grande has been a fixture in fast changing Soho since 1987 by selling timeless, classic wood furniture suitable for world travellers. A favorite of a...
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. "...
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...
Reporter EC sends in a tip for Depression Modern: "Depression Modern is a super place for deco sofas, side tables, chairs, coffee tables and just about everything 30's & 40's." The restoration DM do...
(Note: This is an update review for Sonrisa. First reviewed on 3.23.04) If you are looking for the nicest refinished, vintage metal furniture as well as new metal based on the same designs, this is t...
(Note: This is an update review for DWR. First reviewed on 3.3.04) Company chooses friendly name to soften just-out-of-reach prices. Started by the San Francisco modern furniture mafia in the late ni...
We heard about Casamidy through Sarah, who did such a beautiful job with her apartment in the West Village, and had a mirror she loved from them. Started in 1998 by Anne-Marie Midy (a Martha Stewar...
AE just wrote in asking why the hell we hadn't reviewed Modernica yet? Very good question, since it's a go-to shop and niche killer when it comes to Mid-C design. Born in LA selling vintage Mid-C p...
Dept. of Modern Affairs. With the McDonald's like rise of DWR and other smaller outfits, Drew and Sina at Edge Modern decided that the field was too crowded and a new path needed to be carved: enter D...