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Room Service Vintage
This is the kind of store you head to with giddy expectation, knowing you'll score something amazing. Room Service has so many off-the-wall knickknacks from the '50s through the '80s (a $12 ballpoint pen Purple Rain-era rendering of Prince, anyone?) that perusing the shelves becomes a thrilling adventure.
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Uncommon Objects
Dozens of individual booths, each loaded with a meticulously assembled array of collectibles—like a $12 tatted-lace table runner or $20 ivory rosette-pendant necklace—break up this wildly imaginative antiques store into a maze of browsing bliss.
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Whole Foods
It was only a matter of time before this do-gooding empire, already famous for making organic food and beauty products so palatable, started selling all-natural, sweatshop-free clothing that we actually want to wear. It is now a destination for trouser-style Loomstate jeans, hip-grazing Stewart + Brown tees, and vegan bags.
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Mixture
This massive emporium is filled with modern home goods and gorgeous paintings by local artists—it's one of our all-time-favorite pit stops.
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SoLo
A former shipbuilding warehouse serves as the spacious quarters for this showroomlike housewares store, which is broken up into dozens of creatively themed areas, from vintage industrial to antique botanical.
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Mixture
This massive emporium is filled with modern home goods and gorgeous paintings by local artists—it's one of our all-time-favorite pit stops.
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SoLo
A former shipbuilding warehouse serves as the spacious quarters for this showroomlike housewares store, which is broken up into dozens of creatively themed areas, from vintage industrial to antique botanical.
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Downtown Antique Mall
Nashville suffers from no lack of antiques, and a fair percentage of the city's selection is on the affordable side. This mall, located in an old warehouse, has the added bonus of being near railroad tracks: Listening to the rattle of trains while browsing is surprisingly relaxing.
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Curious Heart Emporium
Near the Tennessee State Fairgrounds (don't miss the flea market there on the fourth weekend of every month), this gift shop is a worthwhile destination not only because it has a seven-foot-tall spaceship on display in the front yard, but also for its ample selection of well-priced knickknacks.
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Metropolitan Deluxe
This Southern home-goods chainlet caters to individuals looking to add the perfect vintage reproduction lamp or mod color-blocked pillow to their decor. The store's prices are on the affordable side, which makes a splurge on a set of Moroccan tea glasses ($8 each) or a sari-covered picture frame ($14) entirely acceptable.
