Coast to Coast
If you're tempted by our Buyers' Guides in the current Make It Yours special issue but want to go "kick the tires," we've compiled a map of shops and showrooms in cities across the country for your perusing pleasure.
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Kitchen & Bathworks
Kitchen & BathWorks is a division of United Supply Company, which was founded in New Jersey in 1912. They are the oldest independently owned family company in the industry in New Jersey, with four showroom locations and ten wholesale distribution warehouses.
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Arkitektura
Arkitektura features products from the "who's who" of modern and contemporary design, including Gaetano Pesce, Charles and Ray Eames, Phillipe Starck, and Eero Saarinen.
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Hive
Hive was founded in 2002 with the idea that Good Design can and should be presented in an inspired, knowledgeable and friendly manner.
From humble beginnings fueled primarily on inspiration, hive has grown to inhabit its own free-standing building in the Pearl District, Portland's most upscale urban neighborhood. We are proud to be an authorized retailer for Alessi, Artemide, Artifort, Carl Hansen, Cassina, Flos, Kartell, Knoll & Vitra to name just a few. -
Ikea Houston
The IKEA story began in 1926 when founder Ingvar Kamprad was born in Småland in southern Sweden. He was raised on 'Elmtaryd', a farm near the small village of Agunnaryd. During the 1940s and 50s, he was entrepreneurial in developing IKEA into a furniture retailer. To do this, he explored the ins and outs of furniture design, self assembly, advertising, the use of a catalog and a showroom to reach the many people.
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Bo Concept Philadelphia
BoConcept is the brand name of Denmark's most global retail furniture chain with more than 250 BoConcept Brand Stores and 100 Studios in 50 countries.
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Hastings Tile & Bath
Since 1885, Hastings, a privately-owned company, has been a leading provider of decorative architectural products in the U.S. market. Originally founded in Hastings-on-the Hudson New York, as a manufacturer of asphalt and concrete paving materials, the Company compiled a prestigious list of paving installations throughout the United States. To this day, the perimeter of New York’s Central Park is covered with Hastings signature hexagon asphalt pavers.
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Artek USA
Artek was founded in 1935 by Alvar and Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hahl. The business idea of the company was "to sell furniture and to promote modern culture of habitation by exhibitions and other means." Today Artek is renowned as being innovative contributors to modern design, building on the heritage of Alvar Aalto. Functionality and timeless aesthetics are the core elements in the creation of every product that bears the Artek name.
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The Home Depot Miami
The Home Depot was founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. Along with investment banker Ken Langone and merchandising guru Pat Farrah, the founders’ vision of one-stop shopping for the do-it-yourselfer came to fruition when they opened the first two Home Depot stores on June 22, 1979, in Atlanta, Georgia. The first stores, at around 60,000 square feet each, were cavernous warehouses that dwarfed the competition and stocked 25,000 SKUs, much more than the average hardware store at that time. Empty boxes piled high on the shelves gave the illusion of even more product.
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Style, Bath & Kitchen
With a showroom in Oakland, California, Style Bath & Kitchen continues to widen its reach through the introduction of the new online showroom. They carry everything from handcrafted kitchen cabinetry to custom bath and shower components to cutting-edge accessories.
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Arclinea San Diego
Arclinea's mission is to harmonize creativity and technology, conviviality and functionality through innovative solutions for spaces. Simple, intense concepts are the basis of Arclinea's identity; a manufacturing philosophy that translates itself into quality products.
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Bronson & Brodie
Bronson and Brodie is the oldest Danish furniture store in the United States. Started in 1952, this family business is run by the 2nd and 3rd generations of the Bronson Family. They carry New England's largest collection of high quality hand-crafted solid teak, cherry and other hardwood furniture in a vast range of fine European fabrics and leathers.
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Blu Bathworks Showroom
An avowed modernist, award-winning international designer Michael Gottschalk, founder of Blu Bathworks, designs five-star hotels, boutique resorts and contemporary, environmentally respectful custom homes throughout North America, Asia and Europe. He conceives his modern bathware, and his building commissions, with a thoughtful eye for the smallest detail, the most perfect scale, and enduring quality.
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Pyramid Pipe & Supply
Since 1980 Pyramid Pipe & Supply has operated a plumbing supply business located one and a quarter miles west of Highway 71 at 3800 Main Street in Grandview Missouri, near the Kansas City area. The store has a parts counter for contractors and plumbers to purchase pipe, valves, fittings, tools, fixtures, water heaters, products, supplies and repair parts for commercial and residential plumbing. Pyramid also displays a wide range of plumbing products in their 2,000-square-foot showroom.
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Consolidated Supply Co.
Established in 1928, Consolidated Supply Co. started as a consolidation of four different supply houses operating in Portland, Oregon and employing E. A. Neupert as the General Manager. During the depression years, ownership of the Company was purchased by the Neupert family and the company remains a family operation to this day.
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Bell'Supply Company Inc.
Bell'Supply is a plumbing, heating, ventilation and air conditioning supply business that has served the Wilmington, Delaware area since 1932. They carry HVAC and plumbing products and their showroom displays samples in a variety of styles and colors. Bell'Supply's employees are trained to assist clientele ranging from homeowners to corporations.
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CB2
CB2 is an offshoot of Crate and Barrel that carries affordable modern home furnishings.
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Ann Sacks
In the early 1980s, working with local ceramists, designer Ann Sacks developed a line of color tiles, and by 1983, offered handmade tiles in 100 colors that could be matched to any existing product or environment. The success of this program allowed the company to subsequently open showrooms in Seattle and Vancouver.
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Stone Source
Stone Source is a locally owned, family business that sprang out of the need to make unique and distinctive stone and tile selections available in the Chattanooga area.
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Zinc Details
Zinc Details is a showcase for functional, durable, and affordable design. Zinc offers furniture and home accessories chosen because they are, or are destined to become, modern classics.
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Abbey Carpet and Floor
Abbey Carpet & Floor has 800 floor covering showrooms across the United States and Canada. They offer floor covering products and exclusive warranties with the buying power of a national chain, but are locally owned. Each of their showrooms is staffed with flooring professionals who can help customers choose the perfect floor that fits their lifestyle and budget.
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Vitra Los Angeles
Vitra is a furniture company dedicated to developing healthy, intelligent, inspiring and durable solutions for the office, the home and for public spaces.
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Bend Furniture & Design
Bend Furniture & Design focuses on styles that range from traditional to contemporary, creating a look owners John and Heather Cashman call "Northwest Modern," which integrates clean lines with warm colors and earthy textures.
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Studio Como
Studio Como is Colorado's most exclusive showroom dedicated to promoting the highest quality contemporary European lines of furniture, kitchens, closets, lighting, and rugs. Everything is displayed in the 7,000 square foot showroom located in the historic Ballpark neighborhood in Denver.
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Cielo Home
Gathering everything from antique Swedish Mora clocks, 18th century French armoires, to some of the most respected names in new furniture, Cielo Home mixes antique with modern, blending different eras and styles.
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The Brewery Blocks
The Brewery Blocks, located at the former site of the Blitz-Weinhard Brewery, is a five-block shopping and professional district in Portland’s vibrant, post-industrial neighborhood known as the Pearl District.
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Cassina Showroom
Since 1927, Cassina has been a design leader and manufacturer of original contemporary furniture. Their modern classics include the Cassina I Maestri Collection by 20th century masters, as well as the contemporary designs by noted European designers.
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Business Interiors
Rooted in New England and family owned since 1925, Business Interiors provides an unmatched selection of product solutions through strategic partnerships with a wide variety of quality manufacturers, and is an authorized Steelcase distributor.
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Voltage
Where art meets practicality, Voltage is the only retail store of its kind in the Cincinnati region that specializes in modern furniture, lighting and accessories from Europe. The furniture features an aesthetic that ranges from the austere to the organic. They offer complete design services and aspire to achieve the look and mood you want to create in your space.
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Stockholm Objects
Scandinavian Design from Stockholm Objects embodies the sophisticated style and functionality of traditional Scandinavian design. Shop from our selection of women's fashions, men's golf apparel, classic and modern furniture, home accessories and high quality jewelry which embraces both a trendy and timeless design.
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Blu Dot SoHo
Founded by three college friends who shared interests in architecture, art, and design, Blu Dot's goal is to bring good design to as many people as possible, which to them means creating products that are useful, affordable, and desirable.
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Arper
Arper's aims to improve the quality of life by paying attention to quality, safety and the environment. They offer seating and table solutions that make living spaces more welcoming, adding style and comfort, whether in the office or at home.
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B&B Italia
Founded in 1966, B&B Italia is a modern furniture and design company specializing in artist- and architect- designed furnishings. Zaha Hadid, Jakob Wagner, and Ettore Sottsass are among the dozens of designers represented in B&B's catalog. In addition to home furnishings, they also offer lines geared toward outdoor, corporate, and hospitality settings.
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FinnStyle
FinnStyle showcases interior design elements from young Finnish designers and looks to support such talent in an effort to spread appreciation for the Finnish aesthetic.
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Twentieth
Twentieth’s 10,000 square foot showroom and exhibition space has become Los Angeles’s undisputed leader in curating the evolution of contemporary design. Twentieth represents a selection of innovative designers, featuring exhibitions and events of special interest, as well as manufacturing a line of furniture and lighting.
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Angela Adams
Angela Adams grew up on an island twelve miles off the coast of Maine. This island upbringing helped to shape her unique creative perspective. Angela’s designs are known for their sense of timelessness, simplicity and balance, all inspired by the remote and rugged natural beauty of Maine island life.
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Unicahome
More than modern, Unicahome has over 50,000 gifts, gadgets, accessories, furniture, and lighting, for your unique home, business, and outdoor environments.
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Bontempi Cucine
Bontempi Cucine offers cutting edge design, modern technology, ergonomic concepts born of in-depth research, an infinite range of colors, expert planning and design, and a deep respect for the environment.
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Cappellini New York
Cappellini's collections are balanced, refined, simple and lean toward the experimental. They offer a wide variety of objects and have home, office, and outdoor lines.
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Datumzero Design Office
Datumzero Design Office is a design firm that integrates architecture and allied fields. Owning a healthy portfolio of residential and commercial projects in the United States and abroad, they are committed to innovative and sustainable design practices and have offices in New York and Costa Rica.
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De La Espada
Calling themselves a "design management firm," De La Espada partners with leading designers who direct their own product lines and also promotes younger or lesser known talent, giving them a platform to build their brands. De La Espada has an interest in craft based materials and their aesthetic evolved from influences including the Arts and Crafts movement, architects such as Tadao Ando, John Pawson and Alvaro Siza, as well as Scandinavian design from the 1950s.
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Design Within Reach San Francisco
Design Within Reach started when founder Rob Forbes tried to furnish his apartment with the clean, simple classics he'd come to appreciate. He discovered that the work of designers like Saarinen, Eames, and Bertioa were difficult to find and buy. The store sells iconic mid-century designs along with contemporary items representing designers, materials and processes that span categories and countries, bringing these items "in reach" to customers.
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DJ Mehler
With a 15,000 square foot showroom located in San Francisco's Showplace Square, DJ Mehler is an internationally recognized leader in the bath and kitchen industry. They carry everything from towel racks to tile, and offer complimentary consultations.
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Droog New York
Droog started in 1993 as a statement on design, a no-nonsense, down to earth design mentality. Their way of thinking has defined Droog as a conceptual design company over the last 16 years, and has played a role in defining Dutch design internationally. Droog stands for a luxury of content and experience that change perspective on daily life—whether it is authenticity, humour, slowness, engagement, or nature, the abundance of what is scarce is true luxury.
Co-founded and directed by art historian and critic, Renny Ramakers, Droog has worked with renowned designers such as Jurgen Bey, Tejo Remy, Marcel Wanders, Martí Guixé, NEXT architects, Arnout Visser, Tjep, Joris Laarman and Richard Hutten, producing products, projects, exhibitions and events that have been extensively published and collected by museums all over the world. -
Dunkirk
The Dunkirk showroom in the San Francisco Design Center features over 9,500 square feet of casual, stylish furnishings. Though they are most known for their outdoor furniture, Dunkirk also offers interior lines as well as custom upholstered items.
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Eastvold Custom Woodworks
Eastvold Custom Woodworks is a small, creative, independent company based in Minnesota that specializes in building finely crafted cabinets and furniture for homes, offices and business. Using unique materials and construction, they create kitchens, baths and other spaces that reflect fine design and modern living. They are experienced in the modern and traditional aesthetic and work with a range of materials, including diverse woods, custom veneers, laminates, metals and acrylics, while using high-quality hardware.
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Circa 50
Circa 50 is a Vermont-based retailer with a wide selection of modern tables, lighting, seating, and storage pieces designed by Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi, and Mies van der Rohe, among others. Circa 50's phone lines are open 24 hours, making it convenient for orders.
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Coverings Etc.
Coverings Etc. was founded in 1998 to source innovative natural stone and mosaics. Expanded to cater to the new eco-friendly and engineered stone surface materials in popular demand, Coverings Etc. has added new lines and new collections to satisfy traditional, contemporary and classic design projects. In addition, they are a member of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and are committed to seeking out interesting and exciting new environmentally friendly materials and solutions for projects with sustainable bioarchitecture incentives.
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Creative Business Interiors
Experts at designing, constructing and furnishing businesses, Creative Business Interiors focuses on function just as much as aesthetics. They design and install their own work, which helps control one's budget, timeline, and quality.
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Gandia Blasco
Gandia Blasco was established in 1941 as a manufacturer of blankets, then transitioned to produce other textiles, before launching its outdoor furniture line in 1996. Under the direction of Jose A. Gandia-Blasco, garden and terrace furniture has become the heart of the company's production.
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Eco Supply Center
Eco Supply is an East Coast distributor of green building materials, representing a merger between Richmond, Virginia-based ECO Supply Center and Brooklyn-based Bettencourt Green Building Supplies. They distribute a variety of green and cutting-edge materials for commercial and residential interiors.
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Eden and Eden
The owners of Eden and Eden wanted to create a cozy, yet contemporary shop for people who appreciate unique design and excellent quality. Sourcing objects from around the world for their Jackson Square boutique, Eden and Eden offers an eclectic array of jewelry, clothing, and home decor items.
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Ford & Ching
Strappy chaise longues and sinewy aluminum lighting vie for attention in this conversion of a historic Chinatown theater. Willard Ford and John Brady curate an eclectic global collection of exotic yet thoroughly modern furniture, accessories, and art with a flair for reclaimed materials. Ford&Ching.com
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Egg and Dart
In 1990, Steven Reed Love placed his successful career in a well-known Denver design firm on hold to follow his dream of opening showrooms and designing product. After securing a modest space in the Denver Design Center, Love turned his dream into a reality with Egg & Dart, Ltd., which offers an eclectic assortment of high-end furniture, textiles, lighting, accessories, plus a complete architectural & interior design bookstore.
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Elemental
Elemental is a creative niche for the exploration of concepts and ideas. The design store/gallery aims to deliver innovative and humorous objects for daily life that live and breate a contemporary attitude, function, and narrative.
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Emmo Home
When Emmo Home's founder moved from New York City to Orange County, CA he found that products catered to an urban lifestyle weren't readily available in his newly adopted city. Filling a niche market, Emmo Home purveys functional, modern, and design-oriented products from their South Coast Plaza retail store.
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Estiluz Inc.
Founded in 1969 in a town just outside of Barcelona, Estiluz is devoted to design, development, and manufacturing of high-end decorative lighting. Based on tenets of functionality, quality, and user-friendliness, Estiluz has become on of the leading lighting manufacturers in the world.
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Fat Brain Toys
Fat Brain Toys is a family owned and operated company that sells American-made toys designed to entertain and educate.
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G&D Cucine
G&D Cucine is an Italian company that highlights different materials and textures such as richly grained woods, stone, and glass in its high-end kitchen designs.
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Hästens
Hästens, which was founded in 1852, is Sweden’s oldest manufacturer of beds and started out by primarily making saddles and carriage furniture. The company focuses on quality over cost, and in the 150 years they have been in business, Hästens has hand crafted beds using all-natural filling materials.
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Millésimé
Millésimé is a lifestyle store showcasing collections for the modern home and person. The ever evolving mix of merchandise includes home furnishings, lighting, clothing and fashion accessories.
IKEA? Yes! Houston? Not so much. The IKEA in Houston is the smallest store in the US and they don't even have a restaurant!
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