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City Foundry

Offering truly fantastic midcentury and industrial-looking goods, this Brooklyn decor shop is a go-to for set designers of period movies and TV shows like 30 Rock.

Products: housewares
cityfoundry.com

Area Ware

The goods sold here are just stunningly innovative, from Jason Miller's Seconds series (his inspired take on fine china) to Keil Mead's drill-bit pendant necklaces.

Products: small-label, gifts, tabletop
areaware.com

Pendleton

The trading blankets from this Oregon company make awesome wedding presents, and I especially love how it has worked its iconic prints into sturdy weekend totes.

Products: gifts, blankets, housewares, linen, tabletop, luggage, clothes, shoes, bags, petite, plus, tall, accessories
pendleton-usa.com

Uzbek Craft

Coveted by decorators, good-quality suzanis—lavish silk-embroidered tapestries from Central Asia—are hard to find in the States (and often prohibitive). But now you can order direct from the source: This Uzbekistan-based exporter sells a bounty of the intricate handstitched swaths and has turned them into blankets and pillows. In the spirit of wanting to create a souk-like shopping experience, it even encourages bargaining—and shipping takes a mere 10 days.
uzbek-craft.com

V & J Duncan

The online arm of this established Savannah, Georgia, antique map and print store is an esteemed resource for coat-of-arms prints, 18th- and 19th‑century botanical engravings, mezzotints of European royalty, and antique maps for all 50 states. We fantasize about buying up a batch of its Audubon lithographs—we're especially fond of one that depicts a posturing ocelot—and hanging them in a cluster above our couch.
vjduncan.com

Vinçon

This celebrated Spanish retailer believes great design should be both compelling and accessible. It wholeheartedly promotes this philosophy through irreverent, affordable products—decorative electrostatic panels to stick on the front of your washing machine, hair combs with wild-looking teeth—and reasonable worldwide shipping. One of Vinçon's most peculiar and voyeuristic features is the "least sold" area, which tracks the site's most unpopular items.
vincon.com

London Lace

This site (and Boston store) is steadfastly dedicated to one thing: gorgeous antique-inspired lace window treatments. For the past 28 years, owner Diane Loesch-Jones has been working with centuries-old Scottish lace-making mills—two of the last remaining in the world—which weave an abundance of affordable panels and valences, many specifically for her store.
londonlace.com

Modify

Stylish, eco-conscious merchandise is the focus here, and every item, whether it's a Perfectly Imperfect organic-cotton trapeze top, Nature Girl sulfate-free shampoo, or a one-of-a-kind chandelier, is produced using energy-efficient, environmentally sensitive methods. To further promote a green lifestyle, Modify posts topical weekly blog entries—and includes a glossary-like primer on all its vendors.
shopmodify.com

P.O.S.H. Chicago

Overseas flea markets aren't the bargain-rich hunting grounds they once were, which is what makes P.O.S.H. so notable: Its owners manage to find the most incredible pieces in European and South American markets—gilded coronation dishware, elaborate brass candelabras, colorful seltzer bottles, striped linen tea towels—then return home and sell them at startlingly fair prices. Antique English hotel silver is a particular specialty; a quick glance at the domed serving platters and finely etched teapots is enough to compel you to throw a six-course dinner party.
poshchicago.com

ReForm School Rules

Designed around a campy academia-gone-awry theme, this entertaining gift site features a home page that depicts the cover of a lovingly abused notebook—complete with animated doodles—and sorts its merchandise into witty categories like "Organic Chemistry" (bath and body products) and "Locker Room" (bags and jewelry). Click through the cartoon-scrawled, graph-paper pages and shop for Brickhouse tea scrubs, photo books on tree houses and yurts, and old-fashioned Jorg & Olif Dutch-style city bicycles, which are newly available in the States.
reformschoolrules.com
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