West Coast represent! A look at our Western Retail Stars for 2025

A lot of House Accents At this time’s Retail Stars are from the West Coast. Right here’s a take a look at what makes them every distinctive.

Completely Fabulous, Huntington Seashore, Calif.

Completely Fabulous, a repeat Retail Star, one among sister publication Items & Ornamental Equipment’ Gifted Retailers, and the recipient of a number of ARTS Awards, has been in enterprise since 2006 and continues to be going sturdy. Founder Diane Silverstein was a nurse for 20 years earlier than changing into disabled and unable to do this sort of labor anymore. At some point, on her technique to get her nails finished, she noticed a “for lease” check in an empty storefront and three weeks later, she was within the reward and residential décor enterprise, the corporate mentioned. The shop’s house and backyard assortment reveals a way of excellent enjoyable and humor: celebratory objects marked with cheeky sentiments, loads of kitchen and eating items for house leisure, and plenty of items for weddings, anniversaries and engagements. The shop can be well-known for its eye-catching window shows. “Our visible shows within the home windows have precipitated two fender benders within the automotive park; they’re that good,” Silverstein instructed GDA a number of years in the past.  – Allison Zisko

Agoura Vintage Mart, Agoura Hills, Calif.

The Agoura Vintage Mart, primarily based in Agoura Hills, Calif, is a classic market that features greater than 40 distinctive distributors. Eighty-three % of the gross sales from the Agoura Vintage Mart come from equipment, which is its focus, in line with Strategic Insights analysis.

The mart expanded the 9,000 square-foot retailer to 11,300 sq. ft final summer season. Every sales space gives detailed shows that includes an eclectic mixture of classic furniture, subtle industrial parts, architectural parts, lighting and textiles, in addition to a broad collection of one-of-a-kind equipment for the house and backyard. Merchandise modifications on a weekly foundation, which permits the mart to supply real perception into the newest tendencies. The Agoura Vintage Mart is a ‘one-stop store,’ mixing influences from American primitives and rural European, to informal house furnishings. The retailer’s vignettes are displayed alongside fashionable house décor and tabletop. We consider mixing previous and new offers our clients with an enormous collection of concepts and inspiration. —AFW

Canteen Way of life & Design, Thousand Oaks, Calif.

The founders of Canteen Way of life & Design, positioned in Thousand Oaks, Calif., say their enterprise embodies the eagerness of doing what they love for individuals they like to work with. Combining house furnishings retail with interior design providers, Canteen leans into its southern California design aesthetic, taking a life-style strategy to house décor with such classes as Discovered, Kitchen and Eating, Way of life, Textiles and House Accents. On the design aspect, Canteen’s focus is on creating significant areas that mirror its purchasers’ personalities, however with a definite stamp.

With a brick-and-mortar and digital retail presence, Canteen has been in a position to develop its aesthetic past its California roots. The retailer’s profitable strategy has been honored with an ARTS nomination for House Accents Retailer — West. — Diane Falvey

D’Amore Interiors, Denver

Frank and Marilyn D’Amore started their retail and design journey in 1980, promoting handcrafted bedding and pillows in Florida. After the beginning of their daughter, who’s now in enterprise with them, they visited after which moved to Colorado. In 2013, D’Amore bought its personal constructing within the Denver Design District, the place it continues to serve the house furnishings and design wants of its clientele. Via the years, the corporate has grown its showroom and shopper base through a ardour for furnishings and design. This household affair has confirmed profitable for the D’Amores, with Marilyn and daughter Gina receiving accolades for his or her design aesthetic via journal articles and awards, together with a number of NKBA Design Competitors Awards and an ARTS Award nomination for furnishings retailer, single location.

D’Amore is understood for its capacity to deal with design initiatives giant and small, in addition to delivering a complete and fantastically merchandised retail showroom in Denver’s Design District. —DF

HW Home, Denver and Fort Collins, Colo.

Colorado-based HW House prides itself on providing an eclectic mix of house décor and furnishings from world wide, together with many one-of-a-kind items. The corporate began in Boulder, Colo., in 1999 however has now added areas within the Cherry Creek part of Denver and in Fort Collins, Colo. Equipment make up about 18% of whole gross sales for HW House, in line with Strategic Insights analysis. Firm proprietor Ron Werner believes that everybody has their very own distinctive model and so gives a variety of customizable choices, together with all kinds of materials and leathers for ottomans, chairs and sofas. The shop additionally has a Make It Mine program, which permits clients to create customized chairs and upholstered beds. Whereas HW House’s up to date furnishings could be considered in-store, all objects on the corporate’s web site can be found for direct transport. All three areas even have a devoted workforce of design consultants who’ve years of experience in inside adorning. —AFW

Interior Illusions, West Hollywood, Calif.

Based mostly in West Hollywood, Calif., Inside Illusions additionally has showrooms in Palm Springs and Palm Desert, an outlet in Cathedral Metropolis, and an indoor/out of doors showroom, known as Exterior Illusions, in Rancho Mirage. The corporate, which gives each retail shops and design providers, mentioned its major aesthetic is derived from the blending of correct stylistic substances and proper proportions to create a uniquely storied design taste that provides hints of contemporary, up to date, regency, rococo and even natural styling. Proprietor Mike Valles began as a designer and solo proprietor in 1999 and now employs a workers of 20. The Nationwide ART committee has awarded Inside Illusions with its “Finest in The West” award and Valles is called the go-to enterprise for all of Hollywood, from the set designers to celebrities. Inside Illusions is often known as a product outlet and is on each main community’s checklist of locations to go to for set design. —AFW

Mountain Consolation Furnishings and Design, Frisco, Colo.

Mountain Consolation Furnishings and Design is a regionally owned retailer of distinctive, sustainable and quality-driven mountain-style furnishings in Summit County, Colorado. It has further showrooms in Frisco, Colo., and Truckee, Calif., within the Lake Tahoe space. The retailer prides itself on providing curated alternatives of house décor and furnishings from trusted manufacturers, and distinctive finds which can be unique to its showrooms.

The retailer is dedicated to sourcing sustainable and American-made merchandise and supporting native artisans. Its inside design workforce is accessible for your entire course of, from the clean canvas to turning the important thing to maneuver in, and gives white-glove supply and removing choices. – LR

Extremely Design Middle, Denver

Household-owned Extremely Design Middle began out as a door and cupboard {hardware} firm serving largely builders and designers. When it entered the lighting class in 2019, the enterprise approached it as a clean slate that could possibly be offered compellingly with devoted and dedicated salespeople, in line with managing accomplice Kevin Castelo. The Denver-based lighting showroom, which carries manufacturers similar to Allegri, Allora, Kuzco, Eurofase, Currey & Co., David Trubridge and Visible Consolation, amongst many others, acquired a retail ARTS Award in January for its efforts.

It’s presently engaged on constructing a brand new 3,000 square-foot house devoted to wellness merchandise similar to the primary solar-powered sauna within the U.S., along with steam and chilly plunge.  “So far as I can inform, there isn’t something like this within the U.S., which is able to make this showroom a real vacation spot for Colorado and past,” Castelo mentioned. – AZ

Wishbone Home Design, Lake Oswego, Ore.

In search of house inspiration in Lake Oswego, Ore.? Look no additional than Wishbone House Design. Based in 2014 by Kim Nilles, Wishbone was pushed by Nilles’s ardour for inside design. From items to full-service design, Nilles and her workforce come toget

her with quite a lot of design skills to help new and repeat purchasers of their group and throughout the nation.

The fantastically curated retailer and on-line purchasing expertise ship every little thing from jewellery and books to house décor and furnishings, giving clients a number of causes to come back again and store once more, bringing magnificence to their lives and houses.

On the design aspect, Wishbone gives providers that vary from house accessorizing and styling to customized finishes {and professional} set up. The corporate’s mission is to create design that displays its purchasers’ imaginative and prescient and way of life. —DF

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