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Ceramics: Mudflat Gallery at Porter Square
Boston

Looking for handmade, local wares for your home? A vase, a set of matching tumblers or maybe just a piece of sculpture? Take the Red Line to Porter Square......

C&H Distributors: Industrial Storage & Supply

By some odd chance, we recently received a massive, 770-page catalog in the mail from C&H Distributors. "The Storage and Handling Leader" sells heavy duty equipment and industrial supplies. Metro-sh...

Chauncey Sage: Lead Inspector

Time to get the LED out. Lead is all over New York City, and it doesn't really become a concern (or an interest) until you have children. And then it is a big concern. According to the EPA, "Lead is...

Carl Chaffee: 20th Century Furnishings

The Carl Chaffee space on Wythe Avenue is similar to its neighbor, Modest Designs: Mr. Chaffee's wares are thoughtfully displayed and easy to browse, prices are on the high end, and the selection c...

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...

Composition

Over the holidays, I was in Colorado and despite the snowstorms, I was able to make it to Composition. This is a great modern design store in the newish Belmar shopping district, just west of Denver...

Ceramic Crystalline Snuff Box by Pavel Janak

Our eye for faceted furnishings spied this keepsake box from Czech Cubist Pavel Janak. Designed in 1911, this angular box fits right in with modern decor. Via: design*sponge......

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...

Cosco Chair with Step Stool (From Giulia's House Tour)

From yesterday's House Tour: Giulia's 'Fantasy Girl' Formula, here's the Cosco Chair with Step Stool as seen in Guilia's kitchen. This one's in a soft, buttery yellow, but you'll also see them in whi...

Claudio Colucci's Wine Carafe With Glass

Serve and be served. This Wine Carafe With Glass by Claudio Colucci is a wine carafe and glass in one. It's all handblown from a single piece of glass, and no two of these are alike. We love the "sh...

Claudio Colucci's Mosaic Tile Patterns

We're blown away by Claudio Colucci's mosaic tile patterns for Inax Co.. Look at how detailed these designs are and how the tiles' colors are used to depict light (especially that one up top,)... ...

C10 Design Fabrication: Custom Furniture

Think it, build it. John Seetin, the founder of C10 Design Fabrication, is a graduate of Parson and has 15 years experience designing and fabricating for both residential and retail......

Chopa Zen Home & Gift

Everthing zen. Calm your home with tatami floor mats and shoji screens at Chopa. It's an online catalog of traditional Japanese home essentials and resource books......

Chelsea Custom Kitchens

Nice Cabinets & Installation. There are contractors and there are kitchen showrooms that sell you cabinets, counters, and all the rest. Chelsea does both, and they do it well. Arthur Tanturi sta...

Chateaushop

In the latest issue of Living Etc. , we were taken with Paris doctor Elizabeth Perraud's apartment. A closer look reveals that much of the design of her home was done herself. We were elated when we...

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 ...

Craigslist

Haven't we all bought something or sold something for the home at Craigslist? We've done both. Sold: rug, computer, refrigerator and chairs. Purchased: dining table (which we later customized), drafti...

Collins Brothers Moving

More Movers. Lately we've seen a great number of these cute, robin's egg blue trucks around town and felt it was time to add them to our Moving Archive - see what people have to say. Collins Brothers...

Country Home and Comfort

They range from rustic to industrial to exotic. When we were searching recently for a farmhouse dining table, we turned to Country Home and Comfort on W22nd. Though they don't have a website, the st...

Conant Custom Brass

We went for the big thermometer to add to our outdoor home. Even though we're generally more modern in our leanings (see High Modernist Debate), every now and then we get a craving for big, function...

City Soundproofing

Another noise solution. In our search for peace and quiet, we've come across City Soundproofing in a recent question by Christine (which has some great suggestions). Quoted in the New York Times art...

Cascade Coil Drapery

We've seen it used in spectacular ways in restaurants and retail spaces around the city. Cascade Coil Drapery makes a sort of chain maille drapery that is used in the home, too. Most commonly, it's s...

CompactAppliance.com

Small is better. If you are looking for small appliances for your small home, put CompactAppliance.com on your list of places to check out. We always check them out for small stuff before we go anyw...

Century Shower Door

Frameless showers look fantastic. One major manufacturer of frameless shower doors, surrounds, and hardware is Century Shower Door. They have special hinges that connect glass to glass, eliminati...

Center44 Antiques and Art

Antiques up to your eyeballs. Center 44, on 44th Street in midtown, is full of antiques from ancient periods right up through the 20th century. There are more than 70 international dealers here, tak...

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