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Bae

We admire the way Bae's co-owner, David Caler, describes himself: "a weird guy who likes weird things." One's own quirky taste is the most important guiding light you can have when taking on an aesthe...

Revival Home & Garden

In the rapidly developing but still gritty heart of Georgetown's shopping area is this gem. Revival Home & Garden is aptly named, showcasing as they do beautifully reupholstered and restored vintage ...

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. Upholstery...

Pimlico Place

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 ...

Veritables

Veritables is a two-pronged outfit: owner Marie Harrisâ€™ Madison home boutique focuses on lighting and oriental-flavored accents; and, as a designer for more than 13 years, she offers consultation...

Watson Kennedy Fine Living

A walk through Watson Kennedy induces the best kind of browsing stupor, where every shelf holds a new hidden treasure, as if it were planted there just for you to find and make special. The kind of...

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...

Eden & Eden

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...

Rejuvenation Hardware

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...

Whit McLeod Furniture

In a previous life Whit McLeod was a wildlife biologist, but today you'll find him at his workshop in the evergreen hamlet of Arcata (which is probably where we'd be if we weren't such confirmed city-...

Nest

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...

Schoolhouse Electric Co.

*Also have New York Showroom If you think that Schoolhouse Electric's light fixtures look familiar, you're probably right. For the first half of the 20th century, schoolhouse-style shades and light...

Forgotten Shanghai

Until recently we had no idea that Forgotten Shanghai was local, and a purveyor of furniture. We'd seen their opulent silk bags around town, but at the Gift Fair a few weeks ago we stumbled upon their...

Big Pagoda

Big Pagoda is that rare thing, a furniture design house and gallery with a completely unique take on moderism. Big Pagoda's web site bills the Sutter Street showroom and retail space as a place for ...

Stumasa

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

Khyber Pass Home Furnishings

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...

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...

Bae

We admire the way Bae's co-owner, David Caler describes himself: "a weird guy who likes weird things." That's a self-description that signals confidence in the most important guiding light you can h...

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...

Bitters Co

Sometimes modern can feel a little sterile, so it's good that there are people like the Carson sisters and places like Bitters Co. This Fremont, Seattle "eclectic general store" is a unique source f...

Williams Sonoma Home

A Williams Sonoma Home store just opened at Stanford Shopping Center. We thought we'd take a look so that we could give you the real scoop. When the catalog first came out, Maxwell described the Wi...