ABC Carpet & Home’s six floors Union Square flagship is a one stop shop for your big ticket home decorating items, including furniture, rugs and carpets, lighting and chandeliers, linens and drapery. This massive warehouse-like emporium offers high end pieces in styles for any taste from antique to mid-century to the purely modern. Across the street, there is a second location offering only carpets and rugs, with a basement level offering discounted remnant carpeting at low prices.

Lerival’s philosophy is that no one should live without at least some architecture in their lives, and they’re doing their part to ensure just that! Lerival is a web-based store and gallery dedicated to selling contemporary furniture designed by the top architectural talent of today.  With cutting-edge aesthetics and top of the line construction, Lerival offers their clients the opportunity to invest in future design history. Born from the minds of James Coombes and Dominique Gonfard, who’s different backgrounds were merged with their equal love for architecture, Lerival aims to expose today’s leading architecture talent to the masses.

Swedish FIT graduate, Fredrik Larsson, opened his Brooklyn home furnishings shop with an ode to Scandinavian design. The distinctive clean and modern aesthetic of his showroom features furniture from Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, as well as kitchen wares from popular brands such as Bodum, Normann, and Iittala. In addition, shoppers can find home accessories, from towels to pillows, and Icelandic cold weather clothing.

This SoHo design mecca exhibits some of the best wares in the business, including home accessories, kitchen essentials, stylish gadgetry, furniture, lighting, decorative pieces, watches and jewelry. Products are displayed museum style behind protective glass, but the friendly and knowledge staff is always eager to assist. Moss is perfect for gift shopping, from the hard-to-impress boss, to the finicky bride and groom, to even the most astute design aficionado – there is something for everyone. If you can’t make it there, try the on-line store which is very easy to navigate.

For those who covet mid-century furniture, but can’t seem to afford the hefty price tag that comes with names like Herman Miller, Eames, or Knoll, White on White is their answer. Owner Karazona Cinar manufactures his own versions of classic pieces by Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, and Isamu Noguchi. The four locations, three in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn, showcase these designer knock-offs as well as a large selection of antique Danish furniture. The downside is that new pieces are not certified and there is no customer service to speak of, but buyers will still have money leftover for rent.

Plastic reigns supreme at this iconic European store, which takes traditional design and modernizes it with this extremely durable material. Virtually everything showcased is manufactured from synthetic polymer—from Philippe Starck’s famed transparent Louis XVI Ghost chairs to Ferruccio Laviani’s must have Bourgie table lamp. There is a humorous aspect to the pieces with items like Gnomes stool-table and Lovely Rita bookshelf. The hard material may not be suitable for couch potatoes, but if you are aesthetically inclined or have abundant outdoor space, the durable waterproof material is a perfect fit.