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Retrofit Home
This cavernous converted auto garage is filled with affordable modern home furnishings, plus lighting, local art, candles, and books.
From Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood store listing.
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Maison Luxe
This home furnishings shop takes knickknacks up a notch with pretty pillows, candleholders, starburst mirrors, and seaside-inspired accents.
From Seattle's Downtown neighborhood store listing.
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Polite Society
Everything in this boutique has been hand-selected by owner Eric Akines, who travels the world to find fashion-forward clothes and accessories from small, independent designers.
From Seattle's Belltown neighborhood store listing.
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Urchin
You'll find a little of everything in this lifestyle store, including simple but beautiful recycled wood furniture, Mud Australia tabletop, Anne Black porcelain and housewares, Mandarina Duck handbags, contemporary jewelry from Adina, local Jill Renae sterling silver jewelry, and the shop's signature urchinlike bleached coconut shell lighting.
From Seattle's Belltown neighborhood store listing.
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Velocity Art and Design
Stocked with modern home furnishings and accessories, this shop offers Atlantico Furniture, Roost accessories, Modernica furniture and lighting, original artwork, Dwell bedding, and Chilewich rugs and tabletop items.
From Seattle's Belltown neighborhood store listing.
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Bluemercury
Filled with Darphin self-tanner, Tocca candles, and Calypso Christiane Celle perfume, the Rittenhouse branch of this East Coast chainlet looks like a spare photo studio transplanted into a stately townhouse.
From Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square neighborhood store listing.
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Petulia's Folly
Done up with appliquéd Kyrgyzstanian tapestries and an engraved wood entry arch from Zanzibar, Petulia's is famed for home and wardrobe essentials that reflect its global-modern aesthetic, including Moroccan-print Antik Batik tops, Mexican clay cachepots, Italian silverware, and flats from Sigerson Morrison.
From Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square neighborhood store listing.
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South Moon Under
This mini chain started in the '60s as a Maryland surf shop, and that laid-back vibe is still felt on all four levels of the large store.
From Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square neighborhood store listing.
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Hello World
Both branches of this local home accessories favorite offer a similar variety of retro-influenced ceramics, Indian textiles, and assorted handbags and jewelry.
From Philadelphia's South Street neighborhood store listing.
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Open House
Handblown glass candlesticks, colorful melamine dishware, pint-size vases designed to hold just a single bud, and other bound-to-be-adored gifts proliferate at this neatly organized design resource.
From Philadelphia's South Street neighborhood store listing.
