Tag: home furnishings

In the heart of Buckhead’s haute revival, high-end boutiques are now mixed with plumbing suppliers—where clients are offered the highest level of personal attention, quality refreshments, and customization.

Geode coasters and agate bookends are in every gift shop these days, but designer Tish Mills was way ahead of the trend when she made her first quartz lamp for a show house nearly 10 years ago.

If a custom sofa just isn’t what the homeowner expected, it’s the designer who gets stuck with the bill—and the sofa. That’s just one way design pros end up with excess inventory, much of it top-quality goods.

ADAC is not only a top resource for home furnishings, but it’s a great place to get an education on design. They offer many tours and lectures which are FREE and open to the public (shhh—don’t tell anyone, because I don't want sessions to “sell out”). Today, I took a tour of rug showrooms with designer Maria McLaurin.

Somewhere between the garage sale finds of Craigslist and the lofty antiques on 1stdibs, there’s a lot of other well-designed furniture that needs a new home. Last year, online marketplace Chairish sprung up to fill that void, adding more than 1,000 items every week.

If the cornerstone Hermès store is a sign that old Buckhead is back, the soon-to-open Restoration Hardware Gallery is a sign that new Buckhead is rising. The showroom, located in the former ESPN SportsZone space across from the Buckhead Atlanta development, is a towering, nearly 70,000-square-foot, six-story estate with a 40-foot-tall entry rotunda.