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Egg & the Urban Mercantile

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...

Form Vintage Modern

Form Vintage Modern lies tucked amidst the cozy traditionalism of College Avenue in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood. Owned by husband-and-wife team Joe and Lindsay Kunis, the store showcases classic...

Bauhaus 2 Your House

Bauhaus 2 Your House was started with the idea that customers should have the same access (and to-the-trade pricing) to modern classics that architects and designers enjoyed. It is now one of the big...

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...

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...

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...

Portland Modern

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

Great Stuff

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...

Form Vintage Modern

(Welcome again to Leah, one of the finalists in our Blogger search. She's writing from Oakland. Comment away!) To all AT:SF Blogger Tryout posts Tucked amidst the cozy traditionalism of College Aven...

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...

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...

RooMax

The name spells it out, don't you think? RooMax. This old-school local furniture showroom and factory specializes in space-maximizing systems for beds, home offices, media centers, closets, and other ...

Re:modern

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...

Design House

(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...

The Apartment

San Francisco's Mission district is chock full of vintage thrift shops, but The Apartment is one of our favorites. The Apartment is a second-hand furniture shop featuring lots of vintage-modern, mi...

Stumasa

Raw wooden furniture always seems to be screaming creative opportunity. Thats why Stumasa intrigues. A mom and pop neighbored furniture store with a DIY spin, Stumasa custom builds reasonably pri...

Zonal Home

It's not every day that you find yourself walking past a red screen door in a hip city shopping district like Hayes Valley. The door, perhaps more than any other single piece inside this Hayes Valle...

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...

FoamOrder.com

We first stumbled across Howard Street's foam superstore online, and slowly have discovered what a great resource it is. And we have to say we agree with their assertion that "Most people don't realiz...

Bauhaus 2 Your House

The web's Bauhaus 2 Your House is one of the biggest online retailers of modern reproduction furniture. They self-describe as "the nation's leader in distribution of high quality modern bauhaus classi...

Retro@Home

In addition to promoting democracy (read on for details), Retro@Home specializes in Scandinavian and American mid-century furnishings, textiles and decorative arts from designers such as Eames, McCobb...

The Magazine

Dot.com dinosaur. 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 fu...

Abode

To walk into Abode is to take in a satisfying eyeful of what the home furnishings world labels "transitional style," meaning somewhere between traditional and contemporary. What this label doesn't c...