Janakos & Company
Yesterday we stopped in at one of our favorite Peninsula shops, Janakos & Company. The Burlingame store first drew our attention when ...
Yesterday we stopped in at one of our favorite Peninsula shops, Janakos & Company. The Burlingame store first drew our attention when ...
Vintage Danish furniture is alive and well in Emeryville. Founded in 2002 by Danish-born Lynne Jensen, Klassik by Lynne specializes in vintage Danish (and Swedish) furniture sourced and imported dir...
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...
Retro@Home specializes in Scandinavian and American mid-century furnishings, textiles and decorative arts. Owner Val Ibardolasa has a practiced eye for this era and continually refreshes the showroom...
Collective is one of those places that we almost don't want to spread the word too far about, because it's such a choice destination for immaculately restored and maintained vintage Danish pieces. O...
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,...
If it were possible to play out one-of-a-kind Danish and mid-century modern finds (and we dare you to try), Shag would be the Top 40 station to do it. No matter how many yard sales, antique stores, ...
We stopped in our tracks when we saw Urban Burp's sign outside that reads "Rare Vintage Fabrics." We quickly made a detour for their door and spent at least an hour talking textiles with Electra Skil...
Just a few blocks from Portland's Pearl district is a hidden mid-century gem called Portland Modern......
We hadn't been to the San Francisco Antique and Design Mall since it opened about 10 years ago. It was recommended to us by AT:SF reader Vince, who moved his two booths there after Antique Trove cl...
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...
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...
Theres more than meets the eye at this Portland Danish-modern furniture reseller. Three warehouses more. We were tipped off by the kind shopkeeper at Canoe, where we were lured initially by the fa...
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...
If it were possible to play out one-of-a-kind Danish and mid-century modern finds (and we dare you to try), Shag would be the Top 40 station to do it. No matter how many yard sales, antique stores,...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
One of our favorite places in the North Bay is Sebastopol's Antique Society. The 20,000-square foot store is so full of good stuff that you can lose quite a lot of your afternoon after stepping insid...
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...
If you live in an older building and favor historical and/or aesthetic continuity, Portland and Seattle-based Rejuvenation Hardware is a terrific resource. Specializing in period-authentic lighting, h...
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...
While scavenging Craigslist, we noticed that American Modern Furniture is closing because "The furniture business is too tough for us, help us get out today!!!!!!! -- so we're re-posting this. They ...
The day after the launch party seemed like a really good time to be wandering around the city instead of sitting at our desk. And The Other Shop was one of our first stops. The Other Shop is a sma...