Homeware shopping in Washington, DC
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Home Rule
Tired of Pottery Barn homogeneity around your house? Check out Home Rule’s amusingly original stock: frog-shaped toothbrush holders, brightly colored martini glasses, animal-shaped salt-and-pepper sets, and rugs and linens, too. The mosaic decorating the front counter symbolizes the U St district’s revitalization – it’s made with smashed glass from the 1968 riots.
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Greater Goods
Inside this earth-friendly shop you’ll find green cleaning products, Sigg water bottles, organic toys, bamboo cookware, solar products (including a Japanese-style lamp and a rather imaginative solar cooking pot) and much more. There are books on living sustainably, and free seminars on solar energy, living off the grid and the like.
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Rckndy
Colorful, kitschy and pleasing to the eye, Rckndy makes a great stop on the U St shopping circuit. Here you’ll find candy-colored ceramics (sushi sets, mugs, planters), curious silkscreen wall hangings, modular furniture and those fascinating conversation pieces – the lifelike Harry Allen piggy banks.
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Woven History
It’s like a Silk Road caravan got lost and pitched up near the Eastern Market. This lovely emporium is stuffed with crafts, carpets and tapestries from across Central Asia, Tibet and Mongolia, and unlike a lot of stores of this genre, feels more like an authentic tented bazaar than a hippie hangout.
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Hunted House
Every piece of vintage furniture stuffing this walk-up, laid out to resemble a functioning (quite attractive) apartment, is a gem of the deco or modernism design movement. We could spend hours staring at the Jetsons-esque TV in the sitting room, which is sadly never for sale. Open Tuesday by appointment.
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Apartment Zero
Apartment Zero is not ‘just’ a design and homewares store. Framed by some of America’s best art museums, it’s more like a small special exhibition itself, displaying the cutting edge of American form and functionality – except the pieces here are for sale.
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Homebody
A good stop on your way to or from Eastern Market is the fun and colorful Homebody. Here you’ll encounter a range of eye-catching gift ideas, including painted candelabras, decorative wall clocks, painted drinking glasses, graphic dinner plates and windup robot insects.
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Tabletop
Also known as the best little design store in Dupont, Tabletop is evidence that DC is a lot more chic than some give it credit for. With the kooky candles, postmodern purses and postindustrial housewares taken together, your living space will be pampered.
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Cady’s Alley
Not a store per se, Cady’s Alley is exactly that, a small street lined with ubercool (and often expensive) interior-design boutiques selling everything from concept furniture to faucets of the future.
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Ginza
Japan is the theme at Ginza. There is a nice selection of beautiful (looking and sounding) indoor fountains, scented candles and other interesting elements of Asian decor.
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Skynear & Co
Explore four levels of rooms crowded with ‘stressed’ armoires, funky sofas and kitschy coffee tables. The furnishings are unique and prices are reasonable.
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