New York Magazine

Milkmaid glasses and skull mugs in the kitchen section peer across the cavernous showroom at animal print throw pillows and Calligaris dining tables.

Named after Huysmans's À Rebours, a fin-de-siècle French novel about a dandy who retreats from society to cultivate his private pleasures, this men’s shop and atelier is appropriately dramatic, gothic, and refined.

Designer teapots, flatware and other eclectic household knickknacks are housed in this legendary Italian kitchenware master's American outpost.

Designer teapots, flatware and other eclectic household knickknacks are housed in this legendary Italian kitchenware master's American outpost.

Since 1948, this donation-based shop benefiting the Arthritis Foundation’s New York City chapter has been a choice destination for designer hand-me-downs.

The luxury book publisher of high-shine manifestos on photography, art, and fashion unveils its first stateside boutique in the lobby of the renovated Plaza Hotel.

A rockhound’s dream, this two-story shop sells minerals from around the globe.

Like a baby-boomer's fantasy attic, this Chelsea boutique is filled with colorful, kitschy delights.

Offbeat hodgepodge of design-centered finds for body and home.

Minneapolis-based furniture line of contemporary, playful pieces.

Linens are covered in vintage brocade prints, and cabinets and storage pieces feature lacelike cutouts at this chic design shop.

Linens are covered in vintage brocade prints, and cabinets and storage pieces feature lacelike cutouts at this chic design shop.

This crowded market draws about 200 vendors every Saturday, selling a mix of new and used goods.

The space at Skylight One Hanson is the perfect place to trade vintage goods, as it's an antique in itself.

Brooklyn Heights consignment shop brimming with handcrafted children’s toys and housewares.

Housed in a former dairy-storage warehouse, this Tribeca showroom overflows with European and Chinese antiques spanning the 17th to 20th centuries.

Boerum Hill design store with mid-century modern furniture, industrial antiques, and novelty items.

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

Curator and gemologist Natascha Demner takes a deep personal interest in her familyÂ’s store.

An exclusive showroom for high-end Modernist furniture.

Pixie-cropped sisters Wendy and LaRae Kangas opened this discerningly stocked boutique in December 2008, packing the racks with independent New York designers and selective vintage wares.

An atmospheric mash-up of architectural antiques and pitch-perfect reproductions.

Owner Russell Whitmore’s antiques store infuses small-town discoveries with a New York state of mind.

Gifts and trinkets from all over the world fill this store to its very high ceiling.

Interior designer Demi Adeniran offers cheerful home furnishings and assorted other finds in her Prospect Heights shop.