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A Mano
Owner Adam Mahr has stocked his Georgetown shop with a well-edited selection of tabletop items, including vibrant Italian ceramics, William Yeoward stemware and playful napkin rings. In back, you’ll find a smattering of jewelry and accessories, as well as gift...
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Carling Nichols
This small shop located in Georgetown carries Chinese antiques, furnishings and decorative items. The owners handpick and sell unique and exclusive items ranging from altar tables to painted pottery, some of which date as far back as the Tang Dynasty...
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Comer & Co
This antiques gallery and interior design shop is located in a two-story townhouse in historic Georgetown. Comer & Co. offers a wide-ranging selection of fine merchandise and authentic antiques from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
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Cusp
The sister store of Neiman Marcus, in Georgetown, Cusp carries cult designers like Manolo Blahnik, Diane von Furstenburg and Tory Burch.
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Dawn Price Baby
Perfect for a baby-shower gift, Georgetown’s Dawn Price Baby brims with high-end nursery furnishings and layette items like Tiny Tea newborn kimonos and swaddling blankets. It also carries Mustela skin-care products, cute toys and books. There are two locations.
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Eastern Market
Both day-trippers and D.C. denizens alike flock to Eastern Market, one of the district’s oldest, fresh-food public markets. Located in the Capitol Hill area, the venue has spaces for fresh produce and flowers, bakery items and meats and cheeses as...
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Fornash Designs
Founded by designer Stephanie Fornash Kennedy, this concept shop bursts with candy-colored cocktail rings, bright bags, gold and silver bamboo bracelets, giraffe bangles and silver starfish cuff links. The style is unabashedly preppy: think pink-and-green duffels or wallets accented with...
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FreshFarm Market – DuPont Circle
Every Sunday from 8:30am-1:30pm, a farmer’s market pops up just off of DuPont Circle. On sale is produce from Virginia farms but also sweet treats from Dolcezza gelato, pickles from Gordy’s Pickle Jar, cut flowers and take-away treats like soups,...
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Kramerbooks & Afterwords
This small but stellar independent bookstore and café in Dupont Circle has been a cult favorite for decades, long before it was customary to grab a cappuccino and a novel in the same spot. The selection of literature is marvelously...
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Marston Luce
Since 1981, Marston Luce has been hunting down unique furniture, decorative items and architectural ornaments. He now spends more than half of each year shopping in France, Sweden and England to fill his eponymous shop where he sells his beautiful...
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Oliver Dunn
Washingtonians looking for exceptional home furnishings and accessories along with some design inspiration turn to Oliver Dunn, a quirky shop located in Georgetown. The store, which fills the six rooms and backyard of the rowhouse it occupies, carries a wide...
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Relish
Relish, in Georgetown, vows to be “fashion forward without being outrageous,” and it works. Look here for fashion and accessories from designers like Dries van Noten, Junya Watanabe and Yohji Yamamoto.
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Salt & Sundry
In 2012, Amanda McClements opened the concept store that everyone wishes they could own. The adorable boutiques (there are two, one off 14th Street near Logan Circle; the other in the uber-cool Union Market) sell home wares, jewelry, stationary and...
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Sherman Pickey
Prepsters will rejoice in the wealth of playful prints and eye-popping colors at this delightful Georgetown boutique: quilted jackets, Lilly Pulitzer tops, Tory Burch caftans. For men, there’s a delicious array of Vineyard Vines ties, whale-print belts, Lacoste polos, Barbour...
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Sterling & Burke
Sterling & Burke was originally established as an e-commerce importer of fine leather goods. It now also offers a bricks-and-mortar presence in Georgetown as well as its own line of leather goods produced in England. Customers can choose from a...
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Union Market
DC's coolest market has been around for nearly 100 years and has always had space for dozens (and at some points in history, hundreds) of vendors, selling wares of all types. Today's offerings skew towards hipster favorites, with artisanal cheeses,...
Washington, D.C.
Let’s be frank here—Washington’s real strengths are its cultural offerings, not its shopping opportunities. True, Georgetown has some good boutiques along Wisconsin Avenue and M Street, but they tend to be buried among mediocre chains. One thing D.C. does do extremely well, however, is High Prep: between unique shops like Sherman Pickey and The Magic Wardrobe and more widespread brands like Fornash Designs, Vineyard Vines and J. McLaughlin, you will be all set for your next weekend on Nantucket or dinner at the Chevy Chase Club.
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New York City
New York City is brimming with an energy and a spirit all its own, with a rise of buzzy Michelin-level dining, museums and parks across the city. SoHo, Central Park and Broadway are vibrant as ever, and neighborhoods like Harlem...
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Boston
Despite continuously serving for more than 200 years as the political, economic and cultural hub of New England, Boston’s reputation as a staid municipality with rabid sports fans hadn’t changed much over the years. Now home to a bevy of...
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Toronto
As its shapeshifting skyline can attest, Canada’s first cosmopolis is in the midst of a growth spurt—one that’s resulted in revitalized public areas, a culinary renaissance (with design-forward restaurants popping up in brilliantly repurposed spaces) and a new wave of...