Carmel Bay Company
Carmel Bay Company has been around for as long as we can remember -- and it's always been a go-to place for great home furnishings and gifts. Every single time we set foot in the door we leave with...
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Beach House Style
We grew up by the beach, so it's a given that we're drawn to Marin's Beach House Style. Their website says, We’re all about a casual, affordable & happy-go-lucky lifestyle -- well, we'd like to t...
Olio
It's not often that you come upon a shop that so boldly declares its raison d'etre over the door. And Olio is nothing if not fun. An old house full of "kitschy, eclectic, and cool stuff," stepping t...
Bauhaus 2 Your House
Bauhaus 2 Your House was started with the idea that customers should have the same access (and to-the-trade pricing) to modern classics that architects and designers enjoyed. It is now one of the big...
The Magazine
Before there was DWR, before there was Design Public, there was The Magazine. Founded in 1990 to supply its clients, both in the Bay Area and online, with the hottest modern furniture, rumor has it...
La Petite Chaise
About a year ago, La Petite Chaise moved from Mountain View's Castro Street and set up shop in a funky little space right across Central Expressway. Until recently they held sales just one weekend a ...
Hayes Valley: Furniture and Design Shop Tour
San Francisco is completely saturated with furniture and design shops... and it can be a bit difficult to wade through it all. Because of this, we took the time to go to one of our favorite neighborh...
Modern Artifacts
Modern Artifacts is a postwar art & design shop located on Market Street in (or near) Hayes Valley. The store's owner has been collecting and refurbishing mostly mid-century modern vintage furniture,...
Propeller
The name 'Propeller' was picked for this Hayes Valley store because a propeller is a "perfect example of form beautifully following function - it moves things forward." We couldn't agree more with th...
Bamboo Hardwoods
We love bamboo as a sustainable fiber and building material, and Bamboo Hardwoods founder Douglas Lewis clearly shares that love, to a great extent. His store is an outpost of every type of bamboo p...
Union Bench by i do Design
From far away we thought this was an hors d'oeuvres bowl... not quite. Scandinavian company i do Design has created a bench for indoor or outdoor use that allows "360 degrees of vista enjoyment." Soun...
Portland Modern
Just a few blocks from Portland's Pearl district is a hidden mid-century gem called Portland Modern......
Great Stuff
We happened by Great Stuff one evening while on our way through Georgetown in Seattle. The bright storefront was like a siren in the otherwise dark industrial district, which is gaining popularity...
VivaTerra
VivaTerra seems quintessentially Northern Californian. Based in San Rafael, the online company is dedicated to living in harmony with nature. They carefully choose items that are well-designed and...
Branch
Good and green. San Francisco-based Branch believes that good design can be sustainable design. Everything they sell -- bedding, furniture, lighting, tabletop items -- is sustainable in some way or...
Mebel Furniture
Clean, modern lines. Solid wood, sustainably harvested. Multi-functional pieces. These things get us every time. Mebel Furniture's website says, "Modern life is about simplifying our surroundin...
David Smith & Co.
To say that this enormous South Lake Union warehouse is a wonderland of Indonesian furniture, textiles and home accessories does not do justice to just how much of an incredible find this store is. ...
OHIO Design
Walking down Fillmore Street a couple of years ago, we stumbled on a shop window that was showcasing several spare and beautiful pieces of handcrafted furniture. With classic mid-century proportion...
Artesanias
We're hearing good things about Artesanias, over in Cow Hollow. From humble beginnings as an importer of furniture from South America, this place now sells a wide array of traditional and some cont...
La Petite Chaise
If you're on the lookout for vintage home and garden items, and you're not interested in paying City prices, consider taking a drive down the Peninsula. You probably already know about Janakos and Co...
AREA
AREA's a breath of fresh (outdoor) air in the traditionally stuffy and serious Jackson Square design scene. This is a store that caters to the senses: walk in, smell the slow-release scent of a Her...
Antique Society
One of our favorite places in the North Bay is Sebastopol's Antique Society. The 20,000-square foot store is so full of good stuff that you can lose quite a lot of your afternoon after stepping insid...
Re:modern
With the proclamation "Design with Integrity," Bay Area-based Re:Modern announces their mission on their home page. Sustainability and good design are the driving forces behind everything they do, fro...
Design House
(Welcome again to Ryan, one of the finalists vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) Design House is located in Vancouver, BC and is part of the renovated warehouse...
Whit McLeod Furniture
In a previous life Whit McLeod was a wildlife biologist, but today you'll find him at his workshop in the evergreen hamlet of Arcata (which is probably where we'd be if we weren't such confirmed city-...
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