NIALL SMITH
344 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10014
212-255-0660
"I have no computer or fax machine
or even call waiting!" chuckles antique dealer Niall Smith
with a cheerful Irish accent. "This is an antiques shop—I'm
lucky to have a rotary phone!"
He may not boast the latest technology, but Niall displays a
dazzling array of nineteenth-century neoclassical furniture,
including French Empire, English Regency, William IV and Biedermeier,
in his small, jewel-box shop in Greenwich Village, which he
has run since 1970. Niall, who is originally from County Cork
in Ireland, travels to Europe six times a year to find furniture
and objets, including bronzes, Wedgewood basaltware and walking
sticks. How did an Irish boy fall in love with the world of
antiques? "My sister and I were dragged every weekend in
the south of Ireland by my parents to an auction or sale, so
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ALAN MOSS
436 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10001
212-473-1310
For 35 years, Alan Moss has been
seeking out high-quality twentieth-century American and
European antiques for his store, which sells everything
from wall sconces to a pair of $1.5 million bronze doors.
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ANN MORRIS ANTIQUES
239 East Sixtieth Street
New York, NY 10022
212-755-3308
Along
"Antique Row" on East Sixtieth Street, Ann-Morris
glimmers with the sparkle of antique lighting and the
glow of old wood furniture. Here, farmhouse tables, Windsor
chairs, garden benches and more are sold to the trade
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COCONUT COMPANY
131 Greene Street
New York, NY 10012
212-539-1940
In a large, airy, skylit Soho loft,
Constantin Von Haeften presents an eclectic blend of nineteenth-
and twentieth-century European antiques along with Asian
accessories. Into the mix he adds "serious Chinese
antiques, which look almost modern." |
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DUANE
176
Duane Street
New York, NY 10013
212-625-8066
www.duaneantiques.com
Partners Wilson Henley and Bruce Glickman gave up their
country shop in Litchfield County, Connecticut, in order
to sell sleek 1930s, 1940s and 1950s French furniture
in an old Tribeca dairy warehouse decorated with sisal
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LAURA FISHER/ANTIQUE QUILTS & AMERICANA
1050 Second Avenue, Gallery 84
New York, NY 10022
212-838-2596
Explore textiles as art in this Manhattan Art & Antique Center shop, which bursts with antique quilts, Beacon/Pendleton
blankets, Navajo rugs, paisley shawls, needlework and woven Marseilles whitework bedspreads. Hard goods include folk art
paintings and tramp art.
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TROY
138 Greene Street
New York, NY 10012
212-941-4777
www.troysoho.com
Troy Halterman travels from Brazil to Scandinavia in order to find vintage modern twentieth-century pieces and new
furnishings to sell in his classic Soho loft, where original nineteenth-century columns run down the center.
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WYETH
315 Spring Street
New York, NY 10013
212-243-3661
A unique collection of vintage modern furniture fills this large showroom, which features one-of-a-kind pieces by anonymous
and well-known designers as well as a Wyeth line of furnishings.
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WOODARD & GREENSTEIN
506 East Seventy-Fourth Street
New York, NY 10021
212-988-2906
www.woodardweave.com
Two blocks from Sotheby’s in a fifth-floor loft, this gallery proffers American country painted furniture and antique quilts
from the nineteenth and early twentieth century along with its own line of handwoven carpets in historic patterns.
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CORNERSTONE
499 Van Brunt Street, Warehouse 8A
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718-855-2673
www.cornerstonesalvage.com
Even building materials can be antique! This company,
housed in a nineteenth-century warehouse in the artistic
Brooklyn neighborhood Red Hook, sells terra-cotta pulled
from French châteaus, antique limestone cut in France
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JOHN ROBSHAW TEXTILES
245
West Twenty-Ninth Street, #1101
New York, NY 10001
212-594-6006
www.johnrobshaw.com
In southeast Asia, John finds antique textiles that he
sends to India to be hand-embroidered and fashioned into
throws and pillows. In his Chelsea showroom, he also sells
by the yard vegetable-dyed linen to designers by appointment.
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SKYFRAME INC.
96 Spring Street
New York, NY 10012
212-925-7856
www.skyframeinc.com
Robert Benrimon started delivering and then making frames for art galleries. Now he runs two framing factories, where he
produces the finest-quality frames, which are inspired by old books and movies.
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URBAN ARCHITECTURE
GALLERY OF APPLIED ARTS, INC.
210 Eleventh Avenue, #401
New York, NY 10001
212-924-1688
This full-service firm includes an art gallery that shows drawings and paintings by architects and industrial designers, a
furniture showroom with big names like Philippe Starck, Ettore Sottsass and Memphis Milano, plus interior design consulting.
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