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Twining Weavers
Features handwoven rugs, tapestries and pillows.
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Tienda de Muebles
With a gargantuan showroom, this is your best bet for best-price Mexican decor, housewares, and furniture.
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Gallery Michael
Gallery Michael has a broad inventory of high-quality curios, pottery, jewelry and housewares.
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Casa Maxwell
This rambling store (considered an institution in San Miguel) offers a tremendous array of decorative and household goods.
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Strictly Southwestern
Offers custom-made Southwestern furniture and lighting. Be the first in your town to have Kokopelli dancing across your outdoor wall lights.
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Orígenes
Orígenes is smaller than Antigua de México, but it has a tremendous lighting selection, elegant hammocks and some funky cowhide handbags.
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Antigua de México
Gorgeous furniture showpieces, like benches carved from a single tree, are displayed at Antigua de México in expansive, old-world courtyards.
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Historic Charleston Reproductions
This place showcases jewelry, home furnishings and furniture inspired by the city's historic homes, like earrings based on the cast-iron railings at the Aiken-Rhett House.
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Davison Arts
View Hayley Davison's exquisite wood furniture and John Davison's striking paintings inspired by Kaua'i's landscapes. Ready to shell out around US$2400 for a lustrous koa rocker?
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Prague Kolektiv
Red-lacquered chairs and chrome-trimmed tables are just two of the retro Czech styles you'll find at this furniture store specializing in 1920s and '30s Eastern European designs.
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Earth & Sea Gallery
All pocketbooks can find a gift here, from 'beanbag' geckos (filled with Kaua'i sand) to intricately carved wooden frames (around US$75 to around US$130) and coconut-shell lamps ($85).
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Annieglass
If you're into home entertaining and fancy dinnerware, don't miss Annieglass, which is sold in ultra-chic New York stores like Bergdorf's, but made right here in Santa Cruz. Go figure.
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El Sarape de Saltillo
Sells fine quality sarapes, rugs, ponchos and tablecloths plus a good choice of artesanía (handicrafts) from the rest of Mexico. Wool is dyed and woven on treadle looms inside the shop.
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L Zeidman Gallery
Bowls and sculpture made from over 50 types of Hawaiian wood - most of them grown on the Big Island - are on display at L Zeidman Gallery. The craftsmanship standard is high, with prices to match.
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Candey Hardware
This family-owned hardware shop - around since 1891 - is like something out of small-town USA. It survives in transient DC by offering friendly service and everything the locals need around their homes.
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Dan De Luz's Woods
Dan is a master woodworker who takes native hardwoods such as koa, sandalwood, mango and banyan and crafts gorgeous bowls, platters and furniture. His store is an education, and his workshop is next door.
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Prairie Pottery
Chockablock with plates, bowls, mugs and anything else you can imagine, you'll find exceptional original work from 35-plus provincial artists here. It's never too early to start shopping for Mother's Day.
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Les Pierre Antiques
You can browse through three floors of beautifully refurbished French furniture, mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries. Mostly heavy wood pieced, the massive armoires and solid dining tables will make you crave a country home.
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Aitkens Pewter
With a workshop continuing the rare, ancient craft of working in pewter and unique products, this store is well worth a visit. Kitchenware, jewelry and other items are offered at reasonable prices. It's also great for souvenirs.
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Alphabets
A good place to pick up an offbeat souvenir, Alphabets is split down the middle: tees, toys and postcards on one side, and more expensive items like designer tea kettles, Precidio nesting bowls and some odds and ends in menswear.
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Spring Gallery Store
A decidedly anti-establishment mentality reigns at Spring Gallery Store, where design objects like Richard Saja's Historically Inaccurate pillows are displayed in the windows. The latest in European home furnishings are sold here.
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Kong Lung Co
If you appreciate fine furnishings and Asian design, Kong Lung is a must. Browse the high-quality lifestyle wares, including classic Japanese pottery, imaginative chopsticks, designer aloha shirts, glossy collector books and unique children's toys.
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Zipper
Pottery Barn graduates with a mod penchant will love this pretty pad packed with handpicked whimsies for the home. Even day-to-day items get a zany twist here, like that leaf-shaped teacup or tiger-striped cocktail shaker. Nice take-home gifts for your design-forward friends.
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Fonart, Colonia Mixcoac
The well-known government-run handicrafts shop displays beautiful wares from around the country, ranging from Olinalá lacquered boxes to Oaxacan alebrijes and blankets from Teotitlán del Valle. Prices are fixed, but the quality is undeniably up there as well.
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Movie Madness
A trip to Movie Madness has become a rite of passage for Washington teenagers redecorating their bedrooms before the start of high school. Thousands of modern and classic movie posters, along with celebrity pictures, political memorabilia and old-fashioned advertisements, are for sale.
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