Rockefeller Center and Fifth Avenue, the Garment District, the Diamond District, Times Square: Midtown West and Hell’s Kitchen offer an abundance of shopping options, from rarified boutiques to globally popular brands. It also includes lesser-known gems, including the stores below.
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Jonathan Adler coasters, corkscrews adorned with wooden pigs, candles in every fragrance imaginable, baby rattles shaped like barbells, New Yorker cover jigsaw puzzles, greeting cards for every occasion (including Broadway opening nights): This Hell’s Kitchen institution is for anyone with a sense of whimsy, a discerning eye, and a love of the unexpected.
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“Unaffected living” is the motto of this home decor and gifts store, which favors artisanal goods from around the world. Recent favorites include vibrant dish towels from France, one-of-a-kind sari quilts, silk scarves from Vietnam, vases by Hell’s Kitchen artist Maria DeSimone, and necklaces crafted in Ecuador from tagua nuts, aka vegetable ivory. If any store can satisfy wanderlust, it’s Domus.
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Mid-Century Modern home furnishings have enjoyed a renaissance that shows no signs of ebbing. Vivamus offers an ever-changing curation of the best designs from the 1950s through the ’70s. World-renowned designers such as Jacques Adnet, George Nakashima, and Gio Ponti are represented, as are designers who should be better known such as Ico Parisi and Pedro Friedeberg.
Men who favor custom shirts, pocket squares, and waistcoats can satisfy their sartorial needs at this Hell’s Kitchen shop. In addition to its proprietary brand of menswear and accessories, all made in the USA, the store carries footwear, hats, socks, and grooming products from Stetson, Woolrich, and Apothecary Malaysia, among others, as well as vintage clothing and ephemera. Fine and Dandy even has its own line of dog leashes and collars so your four-footed best friend can look as stylish as you.
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Founded by chef-turned-spice blender Lior Lev Sercarz, La Boîte sells spices, proprietary blends, oils, preserves, and other culinary elements that will transform even the simplest dish into a gustatory revelation. From kumquat compote with cognac to Aleppo pepper, jasmine blossoms to za’atar, if it will enhance a dish, you’ll find it here. Should you work up an appetite while shopping, take advantage of the on-site bakery, where you can buy the likes of chocolate chili and Marrakesh almond cookies.
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