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The Best Homeware Stores in New York

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Since 1985, our annual "Best of New York" issue has named standout services, unique shops, and special spots in dozens of categories. Now that Curbed is part of New York'southward family, we have reimagined "Best of New York" as an always-expanding resource that could rival Yelp in usefulness but feels more similar a secret Google doc that gets passed among friends. To find the places recommended on these lists, we polled hundreds of stylish and savvy New Yorkers and begged them to tell us their go-tos. The consequence: our ain Yellow Pages, containing only first-class places.

Lichen, 98 Moore St., Williamsburg; 131 Manhattan Ave., Williamsburg; lichennyc.com

Nine people told us that visiting Lichen — whose founders met on either end of a Craigslist sale and whose new, expanded location stocks a rotating assortment of muted designer furniture and décor — is the best mode to experience the opposite of the gatekeeping that goes on in much of the design industry. Artist Hassan Rahim says that's in office because of its welcoming staff but mostly considering of its deliberately not-egregious pricing. "I saw a perfect dark-grey discontinued BoConcept beloved seat, thought, Sentinel, this volition be $3,000, flipped the label, and saw that it was $650," says Rahim. Designer Wesley Scott, who grew up in the furniture industry, says he has seen "chairs there selling for a fraction of what the very same ones go for in other stores."

Nalata Nalata, ii Actress Pl.; nalatanalata.com

"It's not the same possessor equally Tortoise General Store on Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles, but Nalata has an overlapping selection," says designer Mary Ping of her go-to habitation-appurtenances store, which is located in a spare space on Extra Place, effectually the corner from the Bowery, and is stocked entirely with Japanese and Japanese-inspired design. Nalata Nalata has a knack for curating functional-simply-beautiful pieces — like a walnut-and-maple clothes hanger by Koizumi Studio ($65), butter-yellow enamel soupspoons by Noda Horo ($15), and Akita-cedar-and-cherry-bark bento boxes ($190). And much of its inventory can't be institute anywhere else in the country — such as its delicate paper fritillaria, white jasmine, pink poppies, and bluish Muscari ($lxx) past Onao Co., one of Nippon'southward oldest newspaper manufacturers.

Raini Dwelling , 307 Hancock St., Bedford-Stuyvesant; rainihome.com

Creative director Yolande Macon and artist Colleen Herman are just a couple Brooklynites who purchase their oval dining chairs ($375) and twisty beeswax candles from Raini Domicile, the homeware store Kai Avent-deLeon opened at the end of last year four blocks from her start shop, Sincerely, Tommy. Since then, information technology's go a (much-Instagrammed) destination for the Raini Home line of chairs (some slingback, some hand-painted and squiggle-adorned) that loyal fans know Avent-deLeon has in her ain Brooklyn brownstone. Designer Onea Engel-Bradley says she visits for its selection of small decorative objects (including vessels by Simone Bodmer-Turner and Jaye Kim), which would be worthy of the most discerning Clinton Colina artistic's mantel.

Stella Dallas Living, 281 N. 6th St., Williamsburg; instagram.com/stelladallasliving

Williamsburg'due south Stella Dallas and its sis store, 10ft Single by Stella Dallas, are both known for their arable offerings of vintage Levi's and deadstock cowboy shirts. But the existent reason to visit, co-ordinate to Engel-Bradley, is the expertly sourced drove of blankets, quilts, coverlets, and bedspreads. "Stella Dallas's collection is primarily textiles from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century," says Engel-Bradley. "I would phone call it somewhat Americana in style, simply they too carry beautiful Moroccan woven cushion covers every bit well as French deadstock upholstery," she adds. The textiles are tucked away in rustic cubbylike shelves, giving Stella Dallas Living the experience of an eclectic upstate store crossed with any Bode fan'southward platonic linen closet.

Every Thing Goes Piece of furniture, 17 Brook St., Brighton Heights; etgstores.com

Illustration: Jorge Colombo

Thrice recommended by stylish Staten Island locals, Every Thing Goes Furniture is not your typical secondhand store. For one, it is run by the Ganas Community, a 42-year-quondam Staten Island district of about 75 people. It's the place to get when you're in the mood to dig: "I've found some special lamps on occasion, only it'due south a existent hunt," says writer Molly Bruce Barton, CEO of Serial Box. "My understanding is that they get housefuls of things, so there's an awful lot to rummage through to find good things." Meghan Joseph, the exhibition curator and marketing manager of Staten Island Arts, says she found a "gorgeous mid-century credenza" at the shop and that the store is stocked with "mid-century pieces, ornate antique mirrors, and eclectic chairs." Prices are inordinately low: $threescore for a wooden chest of drawers, $45 for a Idiot box stand.

Peace + Riot, 401–3 Tompkins Ave., Bedford-Stuyvesant; peaceandriot.com

Owned by couple Achuziam Maha-Sanchez and Lionel Sanchez, Brooklyn and Bronx natives respectively, Peace + Anarchism's selection is inspired past the owners' African and Caribbean heritages. "Everything in this shop feels thoughtfully called — I've had my center on these baskets from Uganda for weeks and need to get i before they are gone," says Janine Biunno, archivist at the Noguchi Museum. (Also currently for sale: handwoven cotton and wool kilim poufs for $369, Kantha pillows made from upcycled sari cloth for $65, a forest bead chandelier for $399, and striped seagrass baskets for $118.) "It's my go-to gift shop, pick-me-upwards shop, browse-because-I-am-bored store — it merely feels adept in there."

Chop Suey Club, 81 Hester St.; chopsueyclub.com

"When I'm in Chinatown, I make sure to stop past Chop Suey Guild to bank check out super-unique pieces by Chinese contemporary designers," says curator and writer Kiara Cristina Ventura. "Each piece in hither is a work of art — it's e'er a vibe." Located on the corner of Hester and Orchard, the second-floor infinite was known in pre-pandemic times for its packed Chinese New year's day and Mooncake parties. Now, yous can withal shop for 3-D-printed plaster vases by artist Joey Yu (from $245), a pomelo-scented red-dragon candle by Shanghainese label Yueqi Qi ($70), and pieces by Chop Suey Society'southward own line, including a ceramic incense holder shaped to look like a lotus blossom ($38). There's one wall, called the "Dollar Store," devoted to peculiarly cheap items, like classic Chinese-restaurant tip trays with gold "Thanks" lettering ($5).

Design Inside Reach Outlet, 219 36th St., Bldg. 3, Sunset Park; dwr.com

Situated between a rather drab Restoration Hardware outlet and an ABC Carpet & Home outlet (and a Petco and a Costco) in the designer-at-disbelieve emporium that is Sunset Park's Industry City, the two-story, forty,000-square-foot Design Within Accomplish outlet — one of simply a handful in the country — carries returned, overstocked, and slightly damaged pieces by the same designers as the standard store at a fraction of the price. Slightly damaged can mean anything from a modest pigment blemish, to a previously opened box, to light scratches. According to artist Marcus Jansen, the selection of couches stands out: like the tubular Vienna (previously opened), which retails for $5,000 and goes for $2,500 at the outlet, and the three-seat leather Muuto, which retails for about $seven,000, selling for $4,600 (it has some scuffs on the bottom from packing issues).

Coming Soon, 53 Canal St.; comingsoonnewyork.com

"So many stores learned how to do information technology from Coming Soon," says Singer of this Lower Eastward Side spot founded in 2013 and known for its giftable home décor and custom article of furniture upholstery in bright colors and unorthodox shapes. ("Totally bonkers" was how one person described its inventory.) Even though its typical wares — which Zoe Report fashion editor Aemilia Madden tells usa range from bright velvet chairs ($550) to crazy glass straws ($28) to a giant marbled-concrete bowl ($850) — aren't serious per se, bookstore possessor Leigh Altshuler says they're all still adult (and that her customers continue trying to buy the water carafe she once bought there out from under her nose). And Todd Heim, who goes by the drag name Steak Diane, tells the states that its recent move to the corner of Orchard and Canal, incrementally closer to Dimes Square, "has made information technology a truthful 'clubhouse for the neighborhood.' " Speaking of its new location: Information technology'southward slightly larger, meaning room for more of the vintage furniture, similar a Milo Baughman love seat ($3,500) and a '70s Italian marble java tabular array ($3,200) that it besides sells in its fifth-floor showroom around the corner on Allen Street.

Home Union, 319 Graham Ave., Williamsburg; homeunionnyc.com

While home wedlock is perhaps best known for its crayon-colored Memphis Grouping–inspired inventory — Sottsass Mandarin chairs ($550) and lemon-yellow Kartell stools ($365) — several people told united states information technology's as much worth visiting for its consequent supply of mid-century designers like Gae Aulenti, de Sede, Paul Mayen, and Martin Visser. Rahim, for instance, recently purchased a Massimo Vignelli sofa at the store. While a few fans — from Altshuler to stylist Natto Balladares — say it's a little expensive, all said it's still an "aspirational" destination that, in the words of Bombas co-founder Randy Goldberg (who picked up a George Kovacs Umbrella lamp at that place), "feels similar someone went effectually and stole i astonishing matter from the 20 coolest apartments in the city." And Sky Ting co-founder Chloe Kernaghan, who says her dwelling house is full of Dwelling house Marriage (including a Percival Lafer love seat that was sold with a matching chair and ottoman), tells us that built into those higher prices is a full-service refurbishing of (most) items done to the highest standard.

The Somerset House, 76 N. 6th St., Williamsburg; thesomersethouse.com/shop

Owned by one-time fashion designer Alan Eckstein, this recently opened Williamsburg showroom sells meticulously maintained, often rare vintage pieces, from a Eugenia Butler oak puzzle chair ($2,800), to a pink Fritz Hansen lamb-shearling three-legged stool ($395), to a bentwood Danish ottoman reupholstered in Schumacher leopard-impress cloth ($850). The inventory goes far beyond seating, though: The two-story space has vases, couches, coffee tables, consoles, and photography prints. And Scott says the "inspiring" way Eckstein stages it all — for example, "sitting the colorful pieces that popular against worn, weathered wood that forestall it from feeling equally kitschy, or '90s-dorm-room-esque, as other stores" — has influenced his ain apartment'due south design. Plus the diversity, Scott says, is just plain fun: He one time spotted, in a single corner, a pattered grasshopper chair on a cowskin rug abreast a white sofa with pink pillows. Jill Singer, editor of online design magazine Sight Unseen, who lives nearby, was struck on her first visit by the "entire vintage car in the showroom" (a BMW Isetta, situated between Snaka Waka sculptures).

Corona Plaza, 40-04 National St., Corona

Illustration: Jorge Colombo

"When I need annihilation here in New York, my kickoff instinct is to buy from street vendors, who accept been left out of pandemic relief," says Elena Ketelsen González, assistant curator at MoMA PS1. She tends to make her way to Corona Plaza in Queens, an open-air commercial hub just off the 103rd Street 7-train stop, where, vii days a week, from early morning time to late into the night, vendors sell fruits, nutrient (tamales, elote), flowers, and dwelling house goods. "You can pick upwardly everything from embroidered Mexican tablecloths to colorful aprons," says González, who frequents vendor Don Vincente. (If you're in the market for pottery, González says that, non too far abroad, she finds brightly colored hand-painted earthenware vases made by street vendor Gregoria Alvarez and her son.)

Saved, New York, 72 Irving Pl.; saved-ny.com

A tiny store tucked away on Irving Identify, Saved New York has an Instagram following that includes Marc Jacobs besides as various pattern editors, florists, and artists. Brooklyn designer Sean McNanney founded the shop in 2015 later on working in interiors at Ralph Lauren. The focus of Saved is its firm line of handmade Mongolian-cashmere blankets, pillows, and tapestries — though designer Renea LaRiviere says that where the shop truly excels is in its assortment of antiques (like a pair of candlesticks shaped like cobras and an Art Deco mirror past Max Wiederanders) and, especially, "the lamps, which I just love." Recent lamps for sale: a pair of 3-armed Dutch wall sconces ($1,800) and some 18th-century Chinese turquoise ceramic parrot lamps ($2,800) with handmade silk shades.