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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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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

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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

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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)

Updated May 23, 2006

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The Antique Lighthouse

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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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