Bae
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...
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...
Our favorite shop on the Monterey Peninsula is Tancredi & Morgen. Tucked away in a funky little shopping center in Carmel Valley, this jewel of a find is actually only a few minutes from downtown Car...
Years ago, a glance around Relish brought to mind one word – cramped. While the retailer had a good selection of modern housewares and a prime location in Portland’s tony Pearl District, the store...
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...
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. ...
Scandinavian Details is the first stop on our tour of the furniture and design stores in Hayes Valley. Many shop owners along Hayes Street in popular Hayes Valley will tell you how difficult it is to ...
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...
We were thrilled to revisit Sue Fisher King this weekend. It's not everyday that we're in the market for flatware in the $950 range. However, if we were... we'd spent it at Sue Fisher King. Opulenc...
When Heath Ceramics owners Catherine Bailey and Robin Petravic offered to personally take us through their factory in Sausalito, we jumped at the chance. We were especially impressed by their passio...
It's no secret that we have a real humdinger of a crush on the Gardener. We've touted their wares more than once and bragged about the fact that we stalk the store on a regular basis. We've even fo...
Mid-century. San Francisco artists Ames Munden and Lisa Tyrrell's design studio and web boutique, Beeline Mid-Century, sells items to appeal to the lover of mid-century. If you're looking for one-o...
Rosanna makes us see the appeal of holiday dishes, despite our vow to keep a single set to serve the whole year in our teeny apartment. Now we're thinking vow might be a little strong....
A selection as delicious as the word. We learned about this boutique in Portlands Pearl District when we were looking for the elusive Wing Drop Leaf Table from this post on AT:LA. ...
Can a store be coveted and admired? Can it be an idol of design and good taste to be worshipped? If so, Russian Hill's Swallowtail is definitely our latest idol. We have loved this shop from the da...
A walk through Watson Kennedy induces the best kind of browsing stupor, where every shelf holds a new hidden treasure, as if it were planted there just for you to find and make special. The kind of...
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...
Ruth Hyndman is a British-born, Marin-based ceramicist who branched out in the late 90's to develop a line of ceramic items for the home. Most of her pieces, which include lamps, vases, and tablewa...
When Rachel Eden opened the Eden & Eden design store in Jackson Square last year, she had in mind a showcase for all the quirky, fun, and beautiful treasures that she herself had collected over the ye...
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...
(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...
Maison d'Etre is one of our very favorite stores. After our latest visit (just yesterday), we were trying to pinpoint what makes shopping there -- or even merely browsing -- such a satisfying experie...
Originally opened in 1898, the San Francisco Ferry Building has recently undergone some major changes and has once again become one of our city's much loved landmarks. One of the most sublime change...
It's with huge restraint that we don't go into Nest every time we pass by. Once you enter the lovely Nest lair you'll know what we mean. At first, you feel like you're walking into a French flea ma...
Big Pagoda is that rare thing, a furniture design house and gallery with a completely unique take on moderism. Big Pagoda's web site bills the Sutter Street showroom and retail space as a place for ...