Karkula
If you are looking for high-end, modern and sexy furniture, Karkula should be on your short list. Located in Tribeca, Karkula seems one step ahead of other furniture shops in terms of their design ...
If you are looking for high-end, modern and sexy furniture, Karkula should be on your short list. Located in Tribeca, Karkula seems one step ahead of other furniture shops in terms of their design ...
Branch and Glass Console Tables I used to think that VivaTerra was a bit cheesy and uninteresting, but lately they've changed my mind. Just today at the office, I found myself thumbing through the n...
We love a good neighborhood hardware store. With superstores like Home Depot and Lowe's, the local hardware store can easily be overlooked. Honestly, when you have a question or if you aren't reall...
If you have ever felt like something was missing from your life, there’s a good chance you’ll find it here.......
Just 45 minutes from DC is the Old Lucketts Antique Store. When we first stumbled upon this while driving down RT 15, with all the stuff strewn all over their front lawn, we thought we were halluci...
Joy from Oh Joy! spent a whopping four hours at Urban Outfitters' new gardening/lifestyle venture, Terrain at Styer's. Since we haven't made it to Philadelphia to check it out for ourselves, we're i...
DWR has aged gracefully with only a few bumps along the way. Founded with the mission of making modern furniture accessible, they've delivered, spread like Starbucks and experimented with what mode...
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...
What a smart use of outdoor tablespace. This is the Sun Table, created by Devang A. Shah and Michael Low of Sudia Design Labs out of Brooklyn. It's an outdoor table with a top that is also a solar p...
Big light. The Glansa Lysa is an outdoor chandelier recently introduced at Ikea. ...
Marrakesh express... Aware of the growing hipness and attractiveness of the Chelsea Market, we were recently tipped off to yet another resident: Imports of Marrakesh, a wholesale and retail operation...
Super-Store. With a mission to "market and sell Scandinavian Design worldwide" we thought it was time to devote a store post to the online retailer Scandinavian Design Center. After all, we've poste...
Stylish Accessories. We wish we would have known about Mothology when we answered the question, Where does one find Bell Jars? Mothology's collection of vintage-inspired decorative objects is a grea...
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 ...
Luxury Outdoor furniture goes Green. We spotted Neoteric Home at ICFF, thought it looked like very comfy, cuddlepuddle outdoor furniture, and didn't realize that it was also eco-friendly......
Classic outdoor furniture is Fermob's forte. Fermob says they create furniture that can be part of the pleasure gained from the positive effects of nature, such as getting together with friends in o...
Filling the niche of high-quality American outdoor furniture is Modern Outdoor. They have five collections that cover the outdoor realm, from shade umbrellas to upholstered seating....
Smith & Hawken has jumped the shark. In fact, Paul Hawken, the founder, was one of our inspirations for starting our own business, but since Paul Hawken sold it (it has now has been bought by Scott's)...
One of the few remaining garden shops in the city, Chelsea Gardens has moved around like a gypsy over the past 10 years expanding and contracting as their fortunes rose and fell -- and real estate has...
A friend of a friend of a friend opened this quirky shop in Nashville a few years ago, and it has been a growing success ever since. It started in the way all good things do: two people fell in love...
(Note: This is an update review. First reviewed on 3.19.04) A few years ago we heard about Jeff Curran's online catalogue. It was a bit of a secret, and definitely not well known outside of the Paci...
(Note: This is an update review for DWR. First reviewed on 3.3.04) Company chooses friendly name to soften just-out-of-reach prices. Started by the San Francisco modern furniture mafia in the late ni...
We heard about Casamidy through Sarah, who did such a beautiful job with her apartment in the West Village, and had a mirror she loved from them. Started in 1998 by Anne-Marie Midy (a Martha Stewar...
Good vibe. American Rag was on our list and, boy was this a nice find. See Slideshow Combining the eclectic optimism of California with colorful, vintage European design, you could browse this sto...
Not so Mini. To be honest, we long ago grew dissillusioned with the MoMA Design Store and felt it had lost its relevance as so many other shops sprung up with more creativity and more edge. We add t...