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Atmosphere Furniture

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Atmosphere is one of the US firms that has its high-quality custom designs manufactured in Brazil; Shelly Baduay, who heads the Los Angeles–based company, calls it a symbiotic arrangement. “We work only with wood certified by the Brazilian government,” she says. “That means we never use any tree until it has completed its life cycle, and we’re proud to be able to produce 300 pieces of furniture from a single tree. It also means that it may well be five more years before we receive another such specimen of a particular tree.” (via Elements of Living)

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Artefacto

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Artefacto, a world-renowned manufacturer of luxury furnishings, sells its goods domestically through its own stores and grabs attention with a substantial marketing ploy: an annual interior design contest using Artefacto furniture and accessories. The winning designers create model rooms for customers to wander through on the second floor of each store. (via Elements of Living)

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Environmental Home Center

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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When entering the Pacific Northwest, one can’t help but notice the high mountains, gleaming bodies of water and lush forests that take over the landscape. Wilderness outfitters and natural-food stores are nearly equivalent to the number of computer-based companies that overwhelm the area. Quickly one realizes that Northwesterners are passionate about the environment. No wonder transplanted Midwesterners Matthew Freeman-Gleason and his wife, Alison, decided to open the Environmental Home Center in Seattle. The idea had its roots in Gleason’s growing awareness that his work as a carpenter and contractor took a huge toll on the environment and human health. After a year of research, his mission became clear: He was to supply homeowners with affordable, stylish and sustainable products that could perform as well as (or even outperform) conventional ones. At the same time he would maintain equivalent or better prices—therefore beating the notion that sustainable products are expensive.
The Environmental Home Center opened its first facility in 1992 and is now located in a 30,000-square-foot showroom and warehouse in downtown Seattle, a far cry from its original 800-square-foot space on an island just outside the city. As the business has grown, so has the number of companies teaming up with it. The store defeats the general misconception that there aren’t many options in sustainable products by offering its consumers choices within categories. Shopping here is basically like going to a “green” Home Depot, and the best part is, you don’t have to live in Seattle to reap the benefits. Online orders are accepted, and the staff answers questions via e-mail. Not all products are on the website yet. However, it is just as easy to phone for samples and other suggestions from the sales experts, who have backgrounds in interior design, environmental science and sustainable materials. Overall, the EHC is a great one-stop shop for the sustainable builder, designer or homeowner on a budget. (via Elements of Living)

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Tesla Lighting Design

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Just off First Avenue in Seattle, South Jackson Street has high-quality antique stores, art galleries and a few noteworthy showrooms, including Tesla Lighting Design, which offers custom mid-century-style lighting made by local glassblowers and artisans. (via Elements of Living)

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Classic Lighting Emporium

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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On North Second Street in the Old City neighborhood in Philadelphia, the Classic Lighting Emporium is a dizzying showcase for too many chandeliers, table lamps and sconces to count. The pieces represent a kaleidoscope of styles and eras, and homing in on a potential purchase requires concentration. (via Elements of Living)

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Fabric Workshop and Museum

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Lovers of textiles, take note: Philadelphia is home of the Fabric Workshop, the country’s only museum for contemporary textiles. Founded in 1977, the Fabric Workshop has "developed from an ambitious experiment to a renowned institution with a widely-recognized Artist in Residence Program, an extensive permanent collection of new work created by artists at the Workshop, in-house and touring exhibitions, and comprehensive educational programming including lectures, tours, in-school presentations and student apprenticeships. (via Elements of Living)

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Dane Design

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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The distinction of outfitting MTV’s <i>The Real World: Philadelphia</i>, which was shot in the Old City neighborhood, goes to Dane Design, which sells new, mod-inspired furnishings. (via Elements of Living)

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Susane R. Lifestyle Boutique

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Located in the heart of the Miami Design District is the Susane R. Lifestyle Boutique. The owner, Susane Ronai, a vivacious redheaded Hungarian, has lived all over the world, and her shop reflects the romance and eclecticism of her various ports of call. Over the course of her 14 years in the Design District, she has built up a loyal following of customers who come to her for period lighting and seating and her large assortment of paintings by abstract expressionist A. Dale Nally. (via Elements of Living)

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The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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A tour of the much lauded hotels on Ocean Drive and Collins Avenue in Miami is reason enough to pass through the Art Deco District, but while there make sure you reserve some time to visit the Wolfsonian– Florida International University, the acclaimed museum of decorative arts. Housed in a 1927 Mediterranean Revival storage warehouse, the museum focuses on American and European objects from 1885 to 1945, when profound social, political and technological changes revolutionized the world. Head upstairs to the fifth floor, where selections from the permanent collection, "Art and Design in the Modern Age," are on view. Paul Frankl’s Skyscraper Bookcase from 1926 echoes the spires of New York’s nascent skyline in alternating levels of dark cabinetry and celebrates the progress assured by these marvelous manmade structures. (via Elements of Living)

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NiBa

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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NiBa is a showroom opened only last December by Holly Hunt veterans Nisi Berryman and Beth Arrowood. Maybe it’s the sparkling acrylic furnishings by Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz or the whimsical chandeliers festooned with feathers and teardrop crystals or the bright hot pillows from Myanmar that Arrowood says they can’t restock fast enough, but walking into NiBa is an instant mood elevator. Carpets are another big seller, and Berryman and Arrowood rolled out their own line last month, featuring natural fabrics to appeal to the more casually inclined South Floridian. (via Elements of Living)

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Stripe

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Stripe focuses on the fun aspects of what co-owner Eric Cody calls Miami Baroque—Italian chandeliers from the 1950s and 1960s in demand as opulent accents. (via Elements of Living)

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Senzatempo

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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While you’re still flush with Machine Age enthusiasm, head over to Senzatempo (“timeless” in Italian) off Miami Beach's Lincoln Road, the pedestrian mall extending from Alton Road to Washington Avenue. Wolfsonian museum founder Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., is a steady customer of this fun collectibles emporium, an exuberant space stocked by owners Matthew Bain and Massimo Barracca with airplane and train models, watches and clocks, furnishings and accessories. A 23-foot-long wall unit by designer and bon vivant Carlo Mollino is chockablock with assorted treasures. Contemporary designer Omar Ali re-creates the Machine Age in his stainless steel lamps and occasional tables, often made from airplane parts. For those seeking more, more, more, talk to Bain about their private stash. (via Elements of Living)

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Harris Kratz

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Harris Kratz, which just set up shop this summer, the Dorothy Draper aesthetic rules. Co-owners Paul Kratz and Jay Harris call it referential modernism: Mid-century minimalism, Regency and neoclassical pieces come together as one piece in their showroom. (via Elements of Living)

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Base

Updated May 23, 2006

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Base has been a Miami mainstay for 12 years and features a changing assortment of artisan-made home furnishings and ethnic crafts and accessories. Store owner Steven Giles, a self-described hunter-gatherer, traveled to Africa for the first time as a dancer with the Béjart Ballet and remains fascinated by the storytelling quality of native crafts. Several years ago, Giles saw a beaded chair made by the Yoruba, an ancient people who live primarily in Nigeria, and he couldn’t get it out of his mind. He finally caught up with a supply festooned with colorful depictions of animals and finished in cowrie shells, and recently offered them for sale. (via Elements of Living)

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The Antique Lighthouse

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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The Antique Lighthouse makes an outing to Manayunk in Philadelphia worthwhile. Even this destination, a compound of former textile mills, requires looking closer, as it’s located several huffing blocks up the hill behind Main Street.
Owner Rollin Wilber isn’t a particularly outgoing guy. But get him talking about his work, restoring lamps from the early electric era or converting late-nineteenth-century kerosene-fueled pieces, and he lights up. During our conversation, he offered to show us the room where he and his staff of six ply their trade. (Ask to see the 1,000-square-foot metal shop that’s also on-site.) Among other large pieces in inventory, a recently restored $21,000, 37-light Maria Teresa chandelier with sine-curve arms was dripping with crystals. (via Elements of Living)

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Twist Home

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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To open a modern-design store on Antiques Row in Philadelphia, the legendary concentration of golden oldies on Pine Street between 9th and 12th streets, it takes passion as well as chutzpah. And there is plenty of both at Lisa Formica and Sharne Algotsson’s Twist Home, which offers a diverse assortment of household accessories and gifts, ranging from functional plastic pitchers to Indian-fabric print blocks. It’s also a showcase for interior and furniture designer Algotsson, whose updated Victorian- and locally handmade, mid-century-inspired sofas and chairs are on display. (via Elements of Living)

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Harry A. Eberhardt & Son Inc.

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Echoes of Philadelphia's Pine Street reverberate several blocks away, where, at 2010 Walnut Street, Harry A. Eberhardt & Son Inc. has the ring of authenticity. Established in 1888, Philadelphia’s oldest antique shop is now run by William Eberhardt in an 1856 Italian Renaissance town house, its glorious woodwork and plaster details overshadowed only by the innumerable porcelain and glass pieces lining shelves and floors. Eberhardt sells Japanese cloisonné and Satsuma from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It is also the principal restorer for Lladro pieces; fixing the figurines takes up most of Eberhardt’s time. Your local porcelain restorer probably trained at the side of an Eberhardt or an Eberhardt protégé, and it wouldn’t be overstatement to say this Walnut Street refuge is keeping the craft alive in the United States. How’s that for a sign of preeminence? (via Elements of Living)

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M. Finkel & Daughter

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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If you lust for antiques, M. Finkel & Daughter in Philadelphia is a must-see. This two-story corner gallery specializes in early American and English samplers and silk embroidery. Its walls are crowded with stitched alphabets and landscapes by innumerable schoolgirls and the occasional young man. Morris and daughter Amy are true scholars, and they select only the best works of the period. And that means you have to pay a price to get in on the action. Samplers start around $400 and often go for ten times that amount. The shop also carries American and English furniture, such as faux-figured chests and sets of Klizmos chairs. (via Elements of Living)

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John Alexander

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Besides the intimate little stores with their troves of treasures, the Chestnut Hill neighborhood in Philadelphia boasts a collection of grand design spaces. John Alexander, for example, occupies a gray stone building that sits squat on a side street. The imposing façade gives way to a loftlike interior filled with natural light and a preeminent collection of British Arts and Crafts furnishings and decorative arts. (via Elements of Living)

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Minima

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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For new wares, North Third Street’s Minima is a kind of mini Milan furniture fair. The brightly lit white surfaces of this store cast halos around designs from Cappellini, Kartell and Vitra, among others. (via Elements of Living)

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Bahdeebahdu

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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The most spectacular of the North Third Street shops in Philadelphia has to be bahdeebahdu. Here, lighting designer Warren Muller displays one-of-a-kind pieces made of reclaimed products. Vintage children’s toys, glass vials, bedsprings, old tools—no castoff is unaesthetic in Muller’s eyes. Bahdeebahdu’s interior furnishings were selected by R. J. Thornburg, with whom Muller opened the 2,300-square-foot showroom in spring 2002. (via Elements of Living)

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Philadelphia Print Shop

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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An alternative to the artsy Manayunk neighborhood in Philadelphia is the dreamlike Chestnut Hill, the heart of which is tidy Germantown Avenue. First stop on this cobblestone-lined street is the Philadelphia Print Shop, founded in 1982 by Donald H. Cresswell and Christopher W. Lane, a Library of Congress veteran and budding philosopher, respectively. The duo, whom you might have seen on <i>Antiques Road Show</i>, has amassed a collection of prints dating from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Woodcuts, engravings and lithographs feature famous Philadelphians, botanicals and antique maps. (via Elements of Living)

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Moderne Gallery

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Moderne Gallery presents another excellent selection, mostly from the first half of the twentieth century. A wood carving of a worker, in WPA style, was particularly eye-catching, though it played second fiddle to a large exhibition of work by master mid-century furniture designer George Nakashima, who worked nearby, just outside New Hope, Pennsylvania. (via Elements of Living)

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Gallery51

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Craig Wallen, a former consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, runs Gallery 51, a showcase for his tribal carpets and weavings from the Middle East and central Asia. His recent show shifted the spotlight to Africa, New Guinea, Borneo and Burma and featured ceremonial and functional objects made of beaten bark cloth, woven cane, tied and dyed raffia and twisted bark string. (via Elements of Living)

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Marie Colette

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Where some of us merely deal in the past, Philidelphia-based Marie Colette <i>lives</i> in it. Her specialty is tempera painting, a technique usually associated with the walls of Renaissance churches and Baroque mansions. Colette, a French émigré, carries on the tradition with interior projects around the region. You’ll also find painted furniture for sale in her narrow little shop on Germantown Avenue (take care not to miss the fading hand-painted sign). If you’re lucky enough to be in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood on a Monday, call Colette ahead of time and you can grab a slot in her weekly studio class. (via Elements of Living)

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