New York Magazine

Paint-your-own-ceramics shop popular for group events.

Though the striking offerings range from amateur collectors' items to bona fide art-world rarities, the main commodity here is weighty hardcover art tomes on Modernist art figures.

This relaxed and family-friendly yarn shop has offerings for both expert and beginner knitters.

This Japanese showroom displays swathes of artful architectural parchment paper and unusual gifts.

This crowded, kitschy shop is stocked with an array of gifts both effortless (picture frames, vases, artsy journals) and off-the-wall, like paparazzi action figures and Titanic-shaped ice-cube trays.

Lovely, unique, spiritually tinged wares at the Himalayan art museum’s gift shop.

A hotel shop that breaks the mold.

Stylish home goods and quirky knickknacks from around the world.