SHOWROOMS WE COVET

SPECIAL DESIGN CAPITALS EDITION

SHOWROOMS WE COVET

With the theme of Design Capitals in mind, CovetED selected a few showstopping showrooms worthy of every design aficionado.list is a compilation of stores we visit frequently and stores that inspire us. From the mega-retailers to the independent neighbourhood shops, great design comes in all sorts of packages and price points. With a wide range of styles and aesthetic, this selection intends to provide you with every inspiration you may need. What fantastic design journey will you be into?

DUBAI

We’ve collected the best interior furniture shops and showrooms for you to enjoy. From small showrooms and boutiques to grand flagships, there is a huge variety of sources to find the best interior design furniture and inspirations.

LUXURY ANTONOVICH DESIGN

Led by renowned designer and architect Katrina Antonovich, this global company epitomizes opulence and luxury. Antonovich’s headquarters are in Dubai, with offices in Miami and Los Angeles and customers around the world.

LASVIST

Specializing in bespoke lights and lighting sculptures, Lasvit is both high-end and high design. They have also transformed glass into a modular system for use in architecture, built glass walls and partitions, as well as external building facades and curtain walls. Their lighting pieces take pride in storytelling design.

CHRISTIES

Founded in 1766 by James Christie, Christie’s has since conducted the greatest and most celebrated auctions through the centuries providing a popular showcase for the unique and the beautiful. Christie’s offers around 350 auctions annually in over 80 categories, including all areas of fine and decorative arts, jewelry, photographs, collectibles, Furniture, and more. Prices range from $200 to over $100 million.

DECOART DUBAI

With its Interior Decor Solutions and Furniture stores in Dubai, DecoArt being one of the best Interior Design Company, advocates in retaining a graceful balance between traditional aesthetic and modern interior designs that smartly side with the customer’s ideas and culture with no compromise on comfort and quality. Established in Dubai, Designitch began with the sole purpose of creating beautiful spaces. We house an extensive collection of modern and contemporary designs covering furniture, lighting, accessories, and art.

DESIGNITCH

LONDON

Luxury Showrooms and Concept Stores play an essential element for interior designers. This list features the Best Luxury Showrooms and Concept Stores in London to visit. Take a look at the most Coveted shops and luxury showrooms in the city with the best home design products, as well as amazing store interiors.

DESIGN SPACE LONDON

DesignSpace London was first established in 2005 and from the outset focused on bringing intelligent space planning to the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture market. With a long history in the industry its founders established a relationship with Modulnova, an Italian furniture manufacturer who were gaining a strong reputation for innovative new designs and materials.

CASSINA

Italian furniture manufacturer Cassina has recently opened its first United Kingdom showroom, in the heart of the Brompton Design District, London. The showroom, designed by architect Piero Lissoni, aims to become a meeting place and must-visit destination for all those interested in contemporary design.

Katharine Pooley design studio has succeeded to create bespoke interiors for the most discerning clients. The company’s refined yet eclectic aesthetic has earned a position as one of the most sought-after interior design studios globally. Whatever you envision for your home, all our furniture brands can make bespoke pieces to order, tailored to whatever size, colour, finish and material you wish for, Harrods has a panoply of choices by style, category and room. The ultimate luxury experience, not only for interior design, but many other sectors.

The Moooi London Brand Store opened in 2016 and is located in Fitzrovia, near the heart of central London. Fitzrovia has always been a cornerstone of artistry, home to many different creatives throughout the years. Now it houses flagship stores, restaurants, and shops at the forefront of innovation.

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LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles, the city of Angels. Truth be told, in the last few years, this unbelievable city has boomed with new shops and showrooms sprouting up every month. Whether you’re looking to transform your home into a luxury paradise or a minimalist retreat, here’s some of the most CovetED showrooms that will help you show off your interior design chops.

GRAYSON LUXURY CROFTHOUSE

Grayson Luxury is the ideal interior design destination for the traditional sophisticate with a modern sensibility. Bringing together some of the most innovative designer brands in the home interiors industry. Grayson Luxury has quickly become the one shop for designers and homeowners alike. Founded in 2010, Croft House aims to encompass the sophisticated, relaxed feel of the California lifestyle through their handmade pieces of statement furniture. Croft prides itself on creating timeless pieces, individually crafted to fit a client’s specific needs. Their extensive design experience effortlessly transforms ideas and vision into functional, quality furniture.

Blackman Cruz specializes in extraordinary objects—the rare, the magnificent, the provocative, and the eccentric—in all their many forms. Their collection of furniture and decorative objects spans several centuries, many different styles of design, and a wide range of countries, from America and Mexico to Italy and France and beyond. Their showroom has over 9,000 square feet.

BLACKMAN CRUZ

Marc offers a unique perspective, a kind demeanour that speaks of the “Southern Hospitality” of his upbringing, and an unparalleled eye for creating home spaces of comfort and unparalleled vision.

4141 Design Showroom includes the mono-brand showrooms of Maxalto and Arclinea by B&B Italia. The primary focus is on customer service offering design services from furniture selection to final installation with an emphasis on creating the full 4141 Design experience through curating furniture, closets, wall units, media cabinets, lighting, kitchens, bathrooms, doors and hardware. Hammer and Spear were launched in 2013 as a showroom and fullservice multidisciplinary design studio, composed of a team of interior designers, architects, and product designers. Founded by husband and wife Scott Jarrell and Kristan Cunningham, Hammer and Spear’s notable aesthetic both informs and reflects the greater movement that has inspired the Arts District for decades.

MIAMI

CovetED has collected the best interior furniture shops and showrooms in Miami for you to enjoy. From small showrooms and boutiques to grand flagships, there is a huge variety of sources to find the best interior design furniture and inspirations.

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Founded in 1994 as a design house, ADRIANA HOYOS Furnishings has converted over time into an iconic brand for glamorous design rooted in a Latin American style. Vertically integrated, with manufacturing facilities in Quito, Ecuador and International headquarters in Miami, Florida. Family owned and operated, the brand was created on the principles of offering unique and stylized products with great added value that enhances spaces with sophisticated comfort.

Becara is a lively and eclectic offering of accent furniture and home accessories, founded in 1964 by Begoña Zunzunegui. Today’s collection is inspired in part by the original decorative antiques sourced worldwide for her first retail store in Madrid, Spain. Becara has since grown to be one of the leading European companies in design, manufacturing, and distribution of furniture, home fabrics and interior design accessories.. Founded in 1966, B&B Italia has been established with a strong industrial and technological calling that leads the design industry in craft and innovation. The close dialogue between the designers and architects that B&B Italia collaborate with leads to creativity that has been foundational in building the history of B&B Italia over the years.

Founded in 1973, Dupuis is an iconic, award-winning Mexican design and interiors brand and for decades has remained a pioneering influence in the Mexican market. Today, with more than 45 years in the luxury furnishings and interior design business, Dupuis is poised to promote Mexican modernism in its purest essence on an international scale.

BECARA DUPUIS

MILAN

Showrooms are a good starting point to inspire you for your latest interior design project, furthermore, if you are in a city so deeply connected to design like Milan. Here are highlighted the best ones.

BISAZZA

Bisazza’s flagship store opened during Milan Design Week 2019. There, over 200 square meters became large windows in the front, illuminating the brand’s different collections together with pieces from the bathroom series. Interiors of the space include natural colours pulled from the parquet, which are paired to pearl grey walls enriched with three columns clad in a gold mosaic from Bisazza. Illulian, a historic and prestigious brand, internationally renowned in the field of design and custom handmade rugs, has never stopped evolving in its over 60 years of activity through a process of uninterrupted growth, participating in great projects and collaborating with prestigious figures in the world of architecture, design, and fashion.

ILLULIAN

CAPPELLINI POINT

An avant-garde creative workshop made of design objects and advanced scenic technologies, art masterpieces and pops of colour on tapestry and architectural elements that define the style of Cappellini. The intimate yet dynamic context recreating the hyperrealistic atmosphere of a private loft is the visual statement of Cappellini’s vision around design and lifestyle.

The Gallotti & Radice luxury showroom has crafted a hub for the domestic habitat. Within a historic Milanese building, the 200 square meter showroom is organized across 2 levels connected by a double-height space with a crystal balustrade (the material that gave the Lombard brand its start). Today, the label’s wide gamut of furniture solutions includes design lamps and chandeliers conceived for diverse creative personalities in a stylistic mix and match Lladró showroom presents a unique concept and exhibiting its exclusive collections of sculptures, High Porcelain, lighting, home décor and fashion accessories, the boutique also highlights the brand’s close bonds with art, crafts, and design.

MOSCOW

Moscow is a designers’ paradise, with a huge range of places to shop from high street stores to sleek mega-malls to fun flea markets. Browse for stylish fashions along Kuznetsky Most, soak up some oldcity charm while you shop on Arbat Street, or uncover unique designs and artwork at some of the newer, hip areas like Flacon Design Centre. Here’s some of the best interior design to offer from Moscow.

TERRA DARUS

For over 20 years Terra Darus Group has been engaged in direct deliveries of Italian furniture of famous brands throughout Russia on favourable terms. They equip private, public, office premises, hotel complexes and other projects with exclusive Italian furniture and lighting fixtures.

The Royal Room Salon in Moscow is an official dealer of designer furniture in Russia. Salon collaborates with famous designers from Italy and other European countries. At the exhibition in the salon, there are goods for the living room, bedroom, kitchen, nursery, dressing room, study, bathroom, and other rooms.

Abitant is an interior design shop based in Moscow, as well as an online store, with high-quality products from Europe and the Americas. It’s a true community for all top designers and architects with some of the most incredible brands. Richmond Home is a furniture showroom that offers stock and to order furniture and decor items for creating interiors in various styles. Professional knowledge of all styles, experience, ability to correctly combine modern concepts of comfort with classical canons, provides a high level of work performance by our specialists. A large showroom in the centre of Moscow with an exposition of furniture and decor items.

Design Place Showroom has been cooperating with the leading manufacturers and sellers of designer furniture and accessories over the last five years. Thanks to the many year’s experiences and professionalism of the company personnel, you will not encounter casual and accidental items in our showroom. Each item is a result of careful choice. Our principal criteria are the quality, aesthetic elegance and functionality.

ABITANT DESIGN PLACE

NEW YORK

New York, the city that is ever design-effervescent! When it comes to interior design and many other areas, the Big Apple is at the vanguard. New York Design isn’t shy, it isn’t motionless. The city that never sleeps harbours some of the most avant-garde designers and that is why, if you have the chance, you should pay a visit to these incredible showrooms.

BUNNY WILLIAMS HOME

Though Treillage, the cherished Upper East Side shop Bunny Williams ran with her husband, John Rosselli, closed in the spring of 2015, the store owner is not a thing of the past for Williams. A few months later the AD100 designer opened her first eponymous showroom in the Fine Arts Building, where she displays her various home lines alongside vintage and antique treasures.

DDC NYC (Domus Design Collection) is a luxurious, contemporary furniture shop filled with pieces to swoon over. DDC showcases over a hundred designers, mostly European imports. It is claimed to be a designer’s paradise and one of NYC’s shopping secrets. What do the best staging projects have? An amazing design collection? Timeless pieces? Unique interior design? Well, then Covet NYC is one of the best staging projects in the Big Apple. Curated and handpicked by Rincón Design & Development and Covet House, and located in Billionaires’ Row, this staging project presents what there is best about contemporary design, showcasing truly unique design pieces by some of the best luxury brands out there.

A slew of wildly coloured trunks appeared on the Upper East Side as French luggage brand Goyard set up its first New York shop in a stately townhouse on East 63rd Street that once housed Charlotte Moss’s beloved boutique. With parquet floors, brass-trimmed mahogany and glass cabinets, and archival Braquenié carpeting, space maintains the feel of Goyard’s original 19th-century shop in Paris.

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DDC NYC GOYARD

Hudson Furniture, the New York furnishings and lighting company, moved to a 25,000-square-foot home in Chelsea, giving its high-octane designs even more room to breathe. In the lofty space, decorative mouldings and stately Corinthian columns are paired with rugged concrete floors and cement-grey plaster walls. The rough-meets-refined look is fitting, considering Hudson’s hallmarks: chandeliers draped with metal chains, Nakashima-esque wood tables, and plenty of polished bronze and brass.

PARIS

From timeless antique shops to cutting-edge luxury showrooms, in Paris, one can find inspiring design. Few places juxtapose the old and new quite like the French capital, where storied 18th-century structures share real estate with their contemporary counterparts in a seamless cultural marriage. CovetED gives you the best picks on interior design and decoration luxury showrooms in Paris.

ALBERTO PINTO STUDIO

Alberto Pinto Studio was one of the biggest Icons of French Interior Design that during his life built his works on the mixture of styles. Pinto developed several interior design projects, not only residential but also in hospitality, businesses and even yachts. Today the Alberto Pinto Studio is considered one of the Top Design Studios in France and by maintaining this status, it has honoured Alberto Pinto’s memory and legacy. Aldeco Interior Fabrics consists of a dynamic and creative Portuguese brand specialized in high-end interior fabrics that were all inspired by the world’s heritage and cultures! Each collection results from the passion of their Design Department for innovation as well as for the latest fashion and design trends. High-end fabrics with the best quality, elegance, and functionality are going to make you fall in love with this place.

ALDECO

This is the place where you’ll find everything you need for your interior design project! From bespoke furniture pieces to lighting designs and décor accessories, the Covet Paris Showroom features a series of mesmerizing décor sets created with the best high-quality products by the best Portuguese interior designers. Chahan Minassian is an interior designer, antique dealer, gallery director and designer. In 1993, he created his own interior design agency, Chahan Interior Design, rapidly attracting commissions in the United States, Canada and Japan, as well as in Europe. He focuses for over ten years on decoration but also on his gallery in Paris.

INDIA MAHDAVI SHOWROOM

The eclectic furnishings on display at India Mahdavi’s 7th arrondissement showroom and neighbouring boutique inspire wanderlust at every turnfitting given the Iranian-born interior designer’s peripatetic background. Colourful cane-backed folding chairs, pattern-woven baskets, and tessellated cement tiles make ideal souvenirs for those who can’t carry away the Murano-glass lamps and accent tables.

SINGAPORE

Singapore is well known for its unexpected, curious, strange and yet still magnificent design. This selection of showrooms make it possible to experience this by combining innovative features with creative designs, these showrooms present plenty of opportunities to discover new decor inspiration.

DAVINCI LIFESTYLE CREATIVE BLEND

If you are seeking elite designs and superior comforts from luxury brands, DaVinci Lifestyle is a must to check out. Established in 1994, the DaVinci Lifestyle is one of the pioneers in luxury furniture. Since then, they have expanded to many showrooms across Asia – Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China. Discover a dynamic mix of furniture collections at multi-label showroom P5 Studio, for pieces to complement your contemporary interior. The 4,000sqft store carries furniture pieces from progressive brands including Shanghai-based brand Stellar Works, outdoor furniture brand Maiori, shelving systems from Danish brand Montana, as well as European furniture purveyors Sancal and Saba Italia.

MARQUIS

When it comes to refined, sophisticated furniture, not many do it better than Marquis. Their artisanal designs breathe elegance into any home and are fitting for any evolved urbanite. QSquare by Marquis is a 22,000 square ft gallery at Tai Seng that showcases six of the finest collections in Italian home furnishings, with famous names like Bentley Home. On top of sophisticated furniture, you can find classy lights, elegant storage solutions and stylish outdoor furniture.

Feel as if you’ve been transported deep underground at this inspiring showroom, which features the versatile uses of the bendable marble technology developed by MM Galleri. The innovative technique cuts the marble in extremely thin and precise dimensions, such that it can be applied as a pliable cladding onto curved surfaces as well as on custom-made furnishings. The showroom space features the bendable marble technology on its walls, along with a selection of its furniture pieces. Inject some luxe into your home with French furniture label Roche Bobois. The elegant and vast showroom in Singapore showcases beautiful contemporary pieces that are modern and creative yet highly functional. The brand is best known for its modular and freeform sofa, Mah Jong created in the ’70s. If home decorating and picking up pieces for your home baffles you, the brand also offers an interior design service to homeowners.

TORONTO

Toronto is blessed to have a pretty thriving design scene and as the largest metropolitan centre in Canada, it’s fair to say that Toronto is the design capital of the county as well. Our list is a compilation of stores we visit frequently and stores that inspire us. From the megaretailers to the independent neighbourhood shops, great design comes in all sorts of packages and price points.

CLASSICO ROMA

Classico Roma is more than furniture, it encapsulates experiencing the art of luxurious and elegant living. With its inception rooted in an ardent desire to bring custom made traditional furniture to the people of Canada. Classico Roma is devoted to being the epitome of timeless and updated classics.

Similar to a “Mom & Pop” shop, KENDALL & Co is an independent Pop & Pop Shop where they welcome everyone to live your best life through their colourful designs. They strive to create a team who shine bright with their talents by being themselves.

The Studio is located on King Street East in Old Town, the historic center of Toronto and just two blocks from St. Lawrence Market, a renowned culinary hub and food hall founded in 1803. Occupying a two-level space, the Studio is punctuated by twin staircases and two dramatic Light Clouds, each with over 100 fixtures. Twenty-seven fully realized room vignettes help visitors envision how the furniture and accessories could work in their own bedroom, dining room or living room. With opulently upholstered furniture and unique accessories rooted in 18th-century Europe, Trianon Design has a decidedly different feel than many of its King East neighbours. The brainchild of Bernard Le Corre and interior designer Lesley Macmillan is full of playful vignettes arranged with original antiques and custom pieces: think tree-shaped French paper chandeliers, Lucite mirrors from Italy and hand-finished tables with antique iron panels from France. Leather armchairs from the 30s and 40s are similarly rich with character.

Housed behind the unassuming brick façade of a former Consumers Gas Company warehouse, AVENUE ROAD’s Toronto flagship is both awe-inspiring and intimate. The 15,000 square foot (1,400 square meters) space offers a constantly evolving trove of design inspiration over three levels. Home to Obumex bespoke kitchen, The Rug Company and an extensive display of Tribu outdoor furniture and USM Modular Furniture, our flagship presents the full breadth of our product offering – a complete expression of the brand’s Total Concept approach.

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