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San Francisco shopping guide listing for “S”

Stumasa

A husband-and-wife-owned neighborhood furniture store with a DIY spin, Stumasa custom builds reasonably priced bookcases, cabinets, desks, and tables, and stocks environmentally-friendly paints and st...

Schoolhouse Electric

For the first half of the 20th century, schoolhouse-style shades and light fixtures were a decor staple. Schoolhouse Electric replicates more than 100 light fixtures from the last century using origi...

Sarah Stocking Fine Vintage Posters

Excelsior & Eureka Cycles by Moore (1895) Sarah Stocking has thousands of high-quality original vintage posters from all over the world. Most of the posters date to the early 1900's, although there ...

Spring

When we walked into Spring the first time, we immediately noticed how good and fresh the store smelled. It turns out that virtually everyone who walks in says the same thing. We think it's the mixtu...

SFMOMA Store at SFO

On Sunday, we spent some time at the International terminal at SFO waiting on a friend's plane. If you're not prepared, the airport can be a pretty tedious place to try and kill time. But we gotta s...

Satellite

Would you believe us if we told you this light was genuine vintage, scored at a neighbor’s garage sale? No? Well, you might be right, but at least this one doesn’t run the risk of burning the hous...

Scandinavian Details

Scandinavian Details is the first stop on our tour of the furniture and design stores in Hayes Valley. Many shop owners along Hayes Street in popular Hayes Valley will tell you how difficult it is to ...

Shag Midcentury Modern

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, ...

San Pablo Flea Market

It's not that we don't appreciate the finer side of collecting, but there's something oh-so-satisfying about digging through a pile of possible discards and pulling out that perfect chair in need of ...

Sue Fisher King

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...

SFMOMA Artists Gallery

We've yet to get a chance to go over there, but people keep telling us about one of the best parts of SFMOMA, and it's nowhere near SOMA......

SF Tour: Heath Ceramics Factory

When Heath Ceramics owners Catherine Bailey and Robin Petravic offered to personally take us through their factory in Sausalito, we jumped at the chance. We were especially impressed by their passio...

SF Store Sneak Preview: BellJar

We are so inspired by folks who can give up that comfy day job (with the regular paycheck and medical benefits that often come with it) to pursue their true passion. Now, we can add Sasha Wingate to...

Sphere Designs Furniture

We work in Dogpatch, where there isn't much in the way of window shopping to occupy our lunch breaks. We have been known to spend those last few minutes before 1 making a quick pass through Sphere D...

Saint Tropez Stone

Iznik mural According to Saint Tropez Stone, they're the only company in California who deals with fine handcrafted Moorish tiles and home decoration. They specialize in handmade Moorish tiles, Moor...

San Francisco Antique and Design Mall

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...

SF Good Questions: Recommendations for Chair Reupholsterers

AT:SF, Do you have any good recommendations for chair reupholsters in the SF/Peninsula area? I have a beautiful high back chair whose purple velvet just isn't a match in our new Eichler. I got insp...

Spruce

This week we'd sell our first-born (if we had one) for just a little time with Spruce. We live in a small space, we work at home, and we're feeling a distinct lack of organization. The Cure's come a...

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...

Shag Midcentury Modern

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,...

Stencil1

We have a dog-loving friend who lives in a building that does not allow pets. So he painted a happy, panting, cartoon canine on the wall of his foyer, and it's the first thing you see when you open th...

Soko Hardware

Soko Hardware is so much more than a hardware store. Sure, if you need keys copied, or nails or a glue gun, the Japantown institution can help you out. But you only need a minute in the store to see...

Stanford Surplus Property Sales

O.K., so everyone knows about Craigslist. And Victoria's written about her adventures at Alameda and Alemany -- and Lisa's just found a great chair at Goodwill. . .but what about other sources for ine...

Sarah Stocking Fine Vintage Posters

When you hear the word "poster," do you think of that old Rick Springfield or Farrah Fawcett poster that was long ago relegated to the trash bin? The posters at Sarah Stocking are about as far from t...

Spring

When we walked into Spring the other day, the first thing we noticed was how good and fresh the store smelled. It turns out that virtually everyone who walks in says the same thing. We think it's th...