MATERIALS
Ann Sacks
37 East 18th Street (212-463-8400)
204 East 58th Street (212-588-1920)
Specializing in handcrafted tile, limestone slab, antiquated stone, and glass and terra-cotta mosaics, this high-end retailer also carries hardware and plumbing products.
Bella Tile
178 First Avenue
(212-475-2909)
This small East Village showroom displays about 100 different brands of tiles: mosaic, glass, stone, and a nice selection of hand-painted tiles from Spain and Mexico.
Bendheim
122 Hudson Street
(212-226-6370)
Bendheim is New York’s top distributor of specialty glass, from architectural (great for bathroom doors) to stained glass. Its showroom has more than 1,000 samples.
Bisazza
12 West 23rd Street
(212-463-0624)
Bisazza’s hand-cut glass tiles come in several sizes and shapes, but most popular are its mosaics, which come in 97 colors.
Canal Plastics Center
345 Canal Street
(212-925-1032)
These fabricators work wonders with Plexiglas. There’s no design team on site, but they’ll create almost anything your designer has in mind, from tub surrounds to shelves.
E-One Glass and Mirrors
630 Avenue U, Brooklyn
(718-812-8400)
Ivan Strachnyi designs and installs major glass projects. He works with all types of glass—frosted, tinted, mirrors—to produce pieces like shower doors and glass walls.
Fireslate
www.fireslate.com
(800-523-5902)
Fireslate, a synthetic stonelike product, can be ordered by the slab for uses like countertops, flooring, and shelving. The material comes in four colors and various shapes and finishes.
Oregon Hinoki Products
www.molalla.net/ohp
(503-829-4524)
This source of fine hinoki, or Port Orford cedar, builds standardized and custom soaking tubs as well as traditional Japanese stools, bathing buckets, and soap boxes.
Panelite
600 Broadway, No. 4C
(212-343-0995)
Panelite specializes in lightweight yet sturdy translucent panels that are most often used for doors, walls, and basic furniture. There’s no real showroom, but the sales office will provide sample books as well as a few sample installations.
Vermont Structural Slate
(800-343-1900)
Vermont Structural distributes high-quality slate for flooring, roofing, and architectural products. In addition to local slate, it offers imported quartzites and sandstones.
FIXTURES & FITTINGS
George Taylor Specialties
76 Franklin Street
(212-226-5369)
This plumbing supplier is a great source for sinks, tubs, toilets, and fixtures in both classic and contemporary designs. There’s also a machine shop on the premises.
H. Theophile
(212-727-0074)
Erich Theophile’s team includes architects, engineers, and designers as well as sculptors and silversmiths to work metal-fabrication miracles in the form of hardware, fixtures, fittings, and furniture.
Urban Archaeology
143 Franklin Street
(212-431-4646)
239 East 58th Street
(212-371-4646)
Come here for contemporary stainless-steel fixtures and fittings as well as quirky salvaged ones—plus tile and stone from more than 100 vendors, and reproductions of antique lighting and plumbing.
Waterworks
469 Broome Street
(212-966-0605)
225 East 57th Street
(212-371-9266)
These showrooms display chic plumbing fixtures and fittings, tile, stone, and mosaics. They also have bathroom-perfect dressing tables and small sitting stools.
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.