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Posts tagged “seating - sofas & armchairs”

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...

Janakos & Company

Yesterday we stopped in at one of our favorite Peninsula shops, Janakos & Company. The Burlingame store first drew our attention when ...

Couch

Couch is almost too good to be true. The brand-new store in Fremont makes custom couches out of eco-friendly materials with the smallest mark-up possible, cutting overhead costs by sharing space wit...

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 ...

Bee Market

With all the teeny tiny stores in San Francisco where you literally have to squeeze by your fellow shoppers in order to navigate through the piles of goods, Bee Market on Union Street is very much a b...

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...

Room 4

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...

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...

Given

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 ...

Portland Modern

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

Artesanias

A new branch of Artesanias recently opened in outer Noe Valley, and continues their mission of providing home furnishings that are both affordable and good quality. ...

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...

Swallowtail

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...

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...

Great Jones Home

We once inherited a fabulous deco-era chair from our mother, a sidewalk-sale savant. It was beautiful but had no cushions, thereby initiating our first foray into the world of upholstery. Upholste...

RetroRedo.com

We love the fact that these guys do nothing but reupholster mid-century furniture. With the slogan "We can do anything to your mid-century chair," RetroRedo.com is an eBay or craigslist buyer's dream...

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...

Klassik by Lynne

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...

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...

iExpress

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...

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...

Janakos and Company

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...