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San Francisco shopping guide listing for “P”

Pet Placemats

If your pet is a sloppy eater, a pet placemat can help save your floor from food spills and water damage. The problem is that most pet placemats are cheesy (bone, paw print, and other pet-themed desig...

Philippa Roberts

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...

Pop Cling

Pop Cling is a fine art and pop art reproduction company specializing in wall decals and graphics. A little different than the average wall decal, Pop Cling's selection consists of limited edition art...

Phone Vault.com

Assorted Vintage Phones In response to our post about Gigegy's vintage phone, we heard of a great store for those looking to "re-date" their phone. Phone Vault.com is a family-owned online store speci...

Peek Keep

When Heidi Nigen visited Copenhagen, she fell in love with the city, the people and the way they incorporate their cozy and modern aesthetic into everyday life. When she came home, she tried to r...

Peace Industry

Felt rugs! Felt rugs! We're smitten. We recently stopped in Peace Industry in Hayes Valley and absolutely fell in love with the rugs they peddle. Peace Industry is an airy shop filled with rugs, ...

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...

Portage Bay Goods

This welcoming shop at "the center of the universe" (the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, that is) has long been our favorite and fail-safe stop for last-minute gifts and a healthy dose of socially co...

Posh Home

We're filing this one away as a "must visit" next time we find ourselves in Tacoma, a city holding its own in terms of culture and style despite its proximity to Seattle....

Paper Source

Since so many DIY projects out there that call for decorative paper, we'd like to stock up on a bunch we love just to have handy for weekend projects. Paper Source is the best place we've found in San...

Portland Modern

Just a few blocks from Portland's Pearl district is a hidden mid-century gem called Portland Modern......

Perch

Up in the winding streets of Glen Park lies a new little oasis for lovers of all things lovely. Perch just opened about a month ago and has already created quite a buzz in the neighborhood......

Pimlico Place

Shopping at Pimlico Place is kind of what we imagine it would be like to shop at our great-aunt's house, if we had a glamorous great-aunt with excellent taste who had traveled extensively around the ...

Pacific Galleries Antique Mall and Auction House

We are flea market junkies. A stroll through this industrial district auction house and antique mall is just what the doctor ordered on a rainy fall afternoon. ...

Portage Bay Goods

This welcoming shop at the center of the universe (the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, that is) has long been our favorite and fail-safe stop for last-minute gifts and a healthy dose of socially cons...

PocketTable.com

We've seen in-wall beds, desks, shoe shine stands and ironing boards, but this is the first time we've seen an entire dining set do the Murphy. PocketTable.com is a carpentry shop in Ohio specializin...

Proof-It Pest Service

After the installation of a new wall heater in our rental apartment in December we began receiving visits from a member of the Mus musculus family. He was tiny alright -- tiny and terrifying. At fir...

Peek Keep

Lucky for us, Heidi Nigen visited Copenhagen and fell in love with the city, the people, and the way they incorporate their cozy and modern aesthetic into everyday life. When she came home, she tri...

Past Perfect II

Past Perfect, which has a store on Union, opened a second store -- on Lombard -- on October 1. We're told that it has the same square footage as the original store, but the difference is that it's a ...

Pop Cling

Every home needs a Stomp monster. We keep wondering when/if the vinyl wall graphics thing will peak, but it seems to have staying power: Blik, Domestic, Wonderful Graffitti, etc. The weird thing is ...

Propeller

Propeller scores big as one of SF's definitive sources for hip, well-made contemporary furniture and art from small, emerging designers. The philosophy behind Propeller is that both the furniture an...

Planet Oranj

Planet Oranj is a Seattle-based mid-century antiques warehouse that also sells all its stock online. So if you live in Portland, Maine, instead of Oregon and are questing for a Franciscan Starburst g...

Past Perfect

On our trip to Past Perfect this weekend, we saw at least half a dozen things that we were tempted to take home. With 40 dealers in a space the size of two stores, and fairly rapid turn-over of ite...

Pablo Designs

One man army. Pablo Pardo is a Venezuelan designer who set up his own shop in San Francisco in 1993. Since then he has been nailing the market for simple, useful designs in lighting, modular furn...

Peter Miller Details

On our next trip to Seattle, we definitely plan to go to Peter Miller Details in Belltown. A couple of months ago we stumbled upon their website while looking for a Pentagram Calendar (sorry, dear re...