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It's not often that you come upon a shop that so boldly declares its raison d'etre over the door. And Olio is nothing if not fun. An old house full of "kitschy, eclectic, and cool stuff," stepping t...
It's not often that you come upon a shop that so boldly declares its raison d'etre over the door. And Olio is nothing if not fun. An old house full of "kitschy, eclectic, and cool stuff," stepping t...
Yesterday we stopped in at one of our favorite Peninsula shops, Janakos & Company. The Burlingame store first drew our attention when ...
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...
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 ...
Our favorite shop on the Monterey Peninsula is Tancredi & Morgen. Tucked away in a funky little shopping center in Carmel Valley, this jewel of a find is actually only a few minutes from downtown Car...
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...
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...
Just a few blocks from Portland's Pearl district is a hidden mid-century gem called Portland Modern......
We were thrilled to revisit Sue Fisher King this weekend. It's not everyday that we're in the market for flatware in the $950 range. However, if we were... we'd spent it at Sue Fisher King. Opulenc...
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 ...
Antika has been on the scene for a while now as a dealer of a well-edited selection of antiques in Greenwood (Seattle). A couple of weeks ago they started advertising on Craigslist, and the lure was ...
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...
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...
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...
It's with huge restraint that we don't go into Nest every time we pass by. Once you enter the lovely Nest lair you'll know what we mean. At first, you feel like you're walking into a French flea ma...
Khyber Pass is like a mini-department store for home furnishings. Much of what you see when you first walk into this warehouse-like space has an Asian feel, but the wares are actually imported from...
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...
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...