From sprawling warehouse sales to chic boutiques in big cities, the country’s top shops on our editors’ radar will make you want to road-trip.
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For the past three years, our editors have been tracking the very best shops in the U.S. It started in 2019, when we launched a sprawling list to help our readers with holiday shopping. Since then, we've added new stores (plus a few etailers—and even Instagram accounts) annually, celebrating the most exciting new openings and keeping track of the best places to buy everything from candles to carpets. In time with our 2022 Ultimate Shopping Guide, we present: This year's best home stores. Discover (and shop!) them all now.
Want to see every year's list? Click here.
Modern Mecca
Potter-turned–design maven Jonathan Adler has opened a new flagship in a 6,000-square-foot SoHo studio. Shop an expansive array of his signature retail offerings (graphic rugs, modern furniture, and, of course, cheeky ’70s-inspired accessories) and get design services.
Best Classic Antiques
“The humble and the fine” is the specialty at this weekend-only shop stocking traditional antiques.
Best Classic Accents
When designer Laura Pankonien couldn't find the right finishing touches for her design projects at The Pankonien Group, she founded her own source. Now, it's a local favorite for everything from lighting to finishing touches.
Best Alfresco Essentials
This environmentally minded shop offers tableware, planters, and furniture—plus houseplants if you'd rather bring the outdoors in than go out.
Chip + Jo–Approved
This fixture at the Brimfield, MA, and Round Top, TX, antiques fairs offers incredible vintage and antique wares, and is frequented by celebrities and savvy designers.
Gardener's Paradise
Rustic-chic garden tools meet vintage upholstery and high-quality gifts at this bewitching shop with an adjacent café.
Unique Finds
From the designers at Studio SFW comes a retail outpost featuring unique gifts and accents from their go-to artisans as well as hand-picked antiques.
Happiest Aesthetic
With an emphasis on the sustainable, Incasa makes Instagram-ready table settings achievable with their unique and colorful decor and serveware, plus styling and design services. (You can register there too!)
Trusted Dealer
Thompson has been importing antiques to her Kentucky studio since 1990. With today's rise in repurposing, the shop's in-house reupholstering and sourcing services make it more relevant than ever for seasoned and new collectors alike.
Global Haul
Joanna Williams opens her suitcase to shoppers by offering finds from across the globe at her Rarities shop. She also sells textiles, many rare or one of a kind, by appointment.
Surprisingly Affordable
Mega-influencer Drew Scott, better known as @lonefoxhome to millions on TikTok and Instagram, stocks everything from handmade accents to impressionistic art prints in his online shop.
Instant Warmth
Husband-and-wife team Brendan and Jillian Bader offer vintage and new accents and furnishings that add soul to any home. If you're not ready for a total refresh, pick up a candle or wood cutting board.
Best Contemporary
Under the soaring ceilings of an erstwhile firehouse, this emporium offers contemporary home goods in an area with a big population of interior designers.
Candle Dreamworld
The cult favorite candle brand tapped designer Sasha Bikoff to conceive its exuberant flagship, where its inventive scents are displayed in gemlike shelves that smell even better than they look.
Best Flea-Market Finds
Curator Karen Abell brings the magic of the French countryside to Florida by way of carefully curated imports: Italian ceramic floral sculptures, wicker furniture, delft china, and more.
Gifting Paradise
The brainchild of dear friends Keith Smythe Meacham and the late writer Julia Reed, this home and garden store blends Southern charm with well-traveled style, offering thoughtfully crafted tabletop accents, cool art, and excellent host gifts.
Best Secondhand
Chrysalyn and Jeff Huff transformed an unused train dock into Kansas City's best destination for one-of-a-kind home goods in 2012, and have been adding to their offerings since.
Bargain Bazaar
Three warehouses of discounted and overstock furniture open monthly to the public, with proceeds benefiting nonprofits local to each outpost.
Additional locations: Birmingham, AL and Memphis, TN
Plant Emporium
For more than a decade, this leafy wonderland has offered plants (and relevant accessories and accoutrements) for every level of gardener, from hardy air plants in pretty jars to sprawling tropicals received fresh weekly.
Most Relaxed Perusing
Established in 2012 by designer Logan Killen, this haven in the Lower Garden District draws in passersby with a calming mix of well-designed kitchen and bath decor as well as distinguished furnishings.
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