Houseware shopping in USA
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Woks N Things
This busy store carries every kind of utensil and cookware you could want – pots, pans, wok brushes, knives. Don’t miss the baseball-bat-shaped chopstick holders.
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Brown Elephant Resale Shop
Proceeds benefit the Howard Brown Health Center, which specializes in health care for the GLBT communities. The shop has a consistently good selection of books, vintage furniture and kitchen items.
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Kenneth Wingard
Upgrade from ho-hum IKEA to mod housewares that are positively scrumptious: glossy tangerine bud vases, vintage tiki-fabric cushions and mood-setting, ecofriendly, cork-shaded lamps, all priced for mass consumption.
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ATYS
Tucked away in a courtyard, this design showcase offers version 2.0 of essential household items: a mirrored coat rack, a rechargeable flashlight that turns a wineglass into a lamp, and a zero-emissions, solar-powered toy airplane.
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Crate & Barrel
The handsome housewares purveyor started right here in Chicago, and this glassy, sassy uberstore is the flagship. Inside, suburban soccer moms fill their carts with hip but functional lamps, wine goblets, casserole dishes and brass beds.
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Lotus Bleu
French whimsy, Vietnamese design and San Franciscan psychedelic color keep eyes open wide in this compact design boutique packed from basement to rafters with fuchsia felt bull's-eye pillows, French laminated-canvas totes and lacquer breakfast trays.
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Zinc Details
Pacific Heights chic meets Japantown mod at Zinc Details, with items like orange lacquerware salad-tossers, a sake dispenser that looks like a Zen garden boulder, and bird-shaped soy dispensers. If you can't find what you need here, try up the street at Zinc's 2410 California St location.
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Soko Hardware
Ikebana, bonsai, tea ceremony and Zen rock-garden supplies are all here at fair prices.
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Peace Industry
Persian carpets usually take credit for grand entrances, but Peace Industry's cooperative-made Iranian felted wool rugs have graphic pop art appeal achieved with vegetable dyes and a spongy, ticklish texture underfoot. Get back to nature with a dewdrop pattern in off-white and brown wool or go arty with a Salvador Dalí curled mustache pattern.
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Cliff's Variety
None of the hardware maestros at Cliff's will raise an eyebrow if you express a dire need for a jar of rubber nuns, silver body paint and a case of cocktail toothpicks, though they might angle for an invitation. The window displays at Cliff's, a community institution since 1936, are a local landmark.
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City Discount
Bargains never tasted so sweet: heart-shaped Le Creuset casseroles, frighteningly effective Microplane graters, Brika espresso makers and other specialty gourmet gear, all at 30% to 50% off the prices you'd pay downtown. Hard-to-find appliance replacement parts, parchment paper and cooking tips are all readily available from dedicated foodie counter staff.
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Jonathan Adler
Vases with handlebar mustaches and cookie jars labeled 'Quaaludes' may seem like holdovers from a Big Sur bachelor pad c 1974, but they're snappy interior inspirations from California pop potter (and Top Design judge) Jonathan Adler. Don't worry whether that leather pig foot-stool matches your mid-century couch – as Adler says, 'Minimalism is a bummer.'
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Sur La Table
Can't fathom life without an espresso maker and citrus reamer? You'll never need to, thanks to these understanding salespeople. For the hippie gourmet, there's a windowsill grow-light for sprouting, ahem, herbs, and for the young aspiring chef, a cupcake-frosting set. Look for free demos that show how to master technique with your new gear.
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Hoypoloi
Hoypoloi is more upscale than most Chinatown stores – it’s actually a gallery filled with Asian artwork, glassware, funky lamps and other interior items. The wind-chime selection wins kudos.
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Melissa Guerra
San Antonio's answer to Williams Sonoma, Melissa Guerra has upscale kitchen implements and table settings with a Latin flavor, layered in with Mexican craft items such as lotería jewelry and painted pottery. It's one of the first stores in the new Pearl Brewery development; stop here and see what else has opened up around it.
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Olive Tree Traders
One of the most elegant shops in Colorado Springs, they have remarkable silk pashminas from India and great prices, sensational Moroccan tea glasses, striking, vivid and utterly unique dishes from Istanbul and fine soaps and olive oils too. Its owner-operater has a discerning eye and a warm smile.
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Japonesque
Wabi-sabi is not something you smear on sushi, but the fine appreciation for organic forms and materials you can experience first-hand at Japonesque. Owner Koichi Hara stocks antique Japanese bamboo baskets and contemporary ceramics, alongside Ruth Rhoten's molten silver vases and Hiromichi Iwashita's graphite-coated, chiseled-wood panels that look like bonfire embers.
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