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Bathroom Shopping

PAINT & PAINTERS

Cohalan Company
keimmineralsystems.com
(302-644-1007)
Cohalan is the sole American distributor of Keim paint, which is produced in Germany. The water-repellent, chip-resistant product comes in 38,000 colors.

John Langran
(917-678-0223)
A decorative painter for 25 years, John Langran specializes in detailed hand-painting, gilding, and wallpaper hanging. He can produce intricate presentations that include stencils and murals.

Pearl Paint
308 Canal Street
(212-431-7932)
This Canal Street store is crammed full of a range of paint supplies: from blackboard paint to lacquer to brushes and gold leaf—perfect for bath or home DIYers.

FURNITURE & ACCESSORIES

ABC Carpet & Home
881 and 888 Broadway
(212-473-3000)
The third floor of ABC’s home-decorating palace is filled with plush towels and robes as well as a dizzying array of shower curtains, hardware, and other bathroom accessories.

Alan Moss
436 Lafayette Street
(212-473-1310)
This tasteful shop offers fine antiques and gorgeous period pieces, including a wide selection of Art Deco furniture and Art Moderne from the forties and fifties.

Artemide
46 Greene Street
(212-925-1588)
Many of the contemporary fixtures at this Italian lighting store come in floor, table, and wall versions, perfect for the bath (or anywhere else in the house).

Beads of Paradise
16 East 17th Street
(212-620-0642)
This Flatiron-district store carries a wide array of African artifacts—handmade pots, figurines, ladders—which double as accents for the home.

Butter and Eggs
83 West Broadway
(212 676-0235)
This eclectic new home-furnishings store offers two lines of furniture (woven-wire and hardwood), accents for the bath and home, decorative pillows, ceramics, and glass.

Calvin Klein Home
654 Madison Avenue
(212-292-9000)
The all-American designer’s line of towels and bath accessories come in luxurious materials and muted colors for minimalist tastes.

Home Depot expo Design Center
73-01 25th Avenue, East Elmhurst
(718-533-4600)
expo Design Centers are more about decorating than their Home Depot siblings. Inside, over ten showrooms—with everything from fabric to accessories—feature just about every brand imaginable.

Maison Gerard
53 East 10th Street
(212-674-7611)
Maison Gerard deals in high-end French Art Deco furniture and decorative pieces. These days, you’ll find such treats as Art Deco vanities and glass vases.

PierceMartin
979 Third Avenue, Suite 1424
(212-593-1222)
PierceMartin’s showroom displays wicker, rattan, and iron furnishings and accents as well as Asian antiques from the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Hong Kong.

Ralph Lauren Home
867 Madison Avenue
(212-606-2100)
This collection includes everything from bureaus to paint. But it’s the luxe soft goods—bedding, towels, robes—that line the linen closets of Anglophile homemakers.

ONE-STOP SHOPPING

AF Supply
22 West 21st Street
(212-243-5400)
High-end designers use AF to create entire bathrooms and kitchens, from tubs to hinges. Make an appointment to tour the showroom, where you can browse more than 200 lines of products.

Design Source
115 Bowery
(212-274-0022)
Design Source has an impressive selection of decorative and architectural hardware but is best known as a complete bathroom resource. A great stop for tubs, sinks, and plumbing fixtures, from the contemporary to the traditional.

Simon’s Hardware & Bath
421 Third Avenue
(212-532-9220)
Simon’s carries nearly everything for the bath. The hardware mecca sells faucets, tubs, sinks, and toilets, plus an impressive selection of hardware and fittings.