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We admire the way Bae's co-owner, David Caler, describes himself: "a weird guy who likes weird things." One's own quirky taste is the most important guiding light you can have when taking on an aesthe...
We admire the way Bae's co-owner, David Caler, describes himself: "a weird guy who likes weird things." One's own quirky taste is the most important guiding light you can have when taking on an aesthe...
Rare Device is one of our favorite stores. We were so excited when they opened last October. Rare Device carries beautiful and unique products, and the store is a wellspring of creative and inspirat...
Philippa Roberts is our favorite home and gift store on Piedmont Ave. Philippa herself is a jewelry maker by trade, so you can also see her work at her shop. In addition to jewelry from both Philipp...
As egg & the Urban Mercantile say on their website, they are "one of San Francisco’s most unique purveyors of sublime and refined household goods." We couldn't have said it better ourselves. Every...
Lost Art Salon owners Gaetan Caron and Rob Delamater Buying artwork, whether purely for aesthetics or as an investment, can be an intimidating process. Thankfully, those of us in the Bay Area who are...
Excelsior & Eureka Cycles by Moore (1895) Sarah Stocking has thousands of high-quality original vintage posters from all over the world. Most of the posters date to the early 1900's, although there ...
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 ...
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...
We've been excited about Room 4 for some time now - each time we passed by it seemed there was something new in the window that we absolutely need to take home with us. Well it's now officially opened...
It's been over two years since we updated our Rose and Radish shop listing, so we took a trip there last week to give you the scoop on what's happening in one of our favorite Hayes Valley boutiques. ...
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,...
When we first wrote about Sonoma-based painter Deborah Cushman, we didn't know that she'd worked as a textile designer in New York, or that she studied under Elmer Bischoff and Joan Brown (of the Bay ...
This past weekend we were very happy to stumble into Given, a casual and hip home furnishings and accessories store. The shop is on the smaller side, but still manages to pack a punch. The walls are ...
We've yet to get a chance to go over there, but people keep telling us about one of the best parts of SFMOMA, and it's nowhere near SOMA......
Ian Dingman "A Less Than Dramatic Tide" The Beholder has long been one of our favorite places to browse for art. In the past they've worked much like a traditional gallery - representing a selected st...
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...
Allen Stickel, Untitled Red Cake says that they're hoping to start a small revolution: when it comes to art, you can have your cake and eat it too. The online gallery offers small, friendly art a...
Brooklyn Morning - Youngna Park Art for everyone. Proprietor of a small New York gallery, Jen Bekman's launched 20x200 to make art accessible to everyone. What does that mean? It means large editi...
Sea urchins are cute, when you think about it. The symmetry of their spikes, the spherical shape that is just about palm size. We think this is the rationale behind, say, a Pokemon character or a ...
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...
Vintage Danish furniture is alive and well in Emeryville. Next time you're in the area, consider bypassing the behemoth purveyor of particle board that resides in the same city and head for Klassik...
iExpress downtown specializes in Euro-esque custom furniture, featuring boxy upholstery, platform beds, contemporary lighting, storage pieces, coffee tables and dining-rooms that are modeled after mor...
Midway between trendy Burlingame Avenue and more down-to-earth, resident-oriented Broadway lies Janakos and Company. Although we'd been meaning to stop in for ages, the store quickly bumped to the to...
We first spied Greenspace a few weekends ago, during a day trip to Santa Cruz. Our first reaction was, "It's about time a place like this opened down here!" And then we proceeded to be impressed with ...
Buying artwork whether purely for aesthetics or as an investment can be an intimidating process. Thankfully, those of us in the Bay Area who are just starting out have a great local resource: Lost...