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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 items like leather picture frames.
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.
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.
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 well as community events and, on weekends, local, handmade arts and crafts. There is also a Farmer’s Market on Tuesday afternoons.
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 grosgrain ribbon. Some accessories, like clutches and ribbon belts, can be customized on the spot.
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, sandwiches and coffee.
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 edited and the hours generous. (It’s open 7:30 A.M. to 1 A.M. daily, 24 hours Friday and Saturday.) I defy you to leave without an armful of books. Even the children’s selection is smart and unusual.
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 and elegant finds.
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 range of decorative items, including chandeliers, statues, linens and textiles.
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.
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 some food products—which follows, as Amanda also happens to be a food writer.
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 jackets and Vilebrequin swim suits. Closed Mondays.
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 full range of accessories or opt for a custom-made piece.
The Phoenix
The Phoenix is a beautifully curated, family-owned boutique in Georgetown at the top of Wisconsin Avenue. It was first founded in 1955 and is currently operated by the family's third generation, Samantha Hays Gushner. Find clothes, accessories, jewelry, home décor and gifts with global flair here.
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, meats, chocolate, body products, cookbooks and homewares on sale. Visit in the morning so you can pick up a coffee and stroll around the stands as they open for the day.
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