Home Décor
Thoughtfully designed home objects, decorative pieces, and interior accessories with lasting character.
The largest category in the directory, and the broadest — it collects the objects that give a room its character without being furniture, lighting or tableware. Vases, mirrors, storage, shelving objects, things on surfaces.
95 Home Décor brands — mostly from Germany, Denmark, United Kingdom
About home décor
German, Danish and British sources lead, and unusually for this directory, multi-brand stores outnumber individual brands. That is a fair reflection of how the category actually works: décor is bought in combination rather than singly, and the retailers here have done the work of assembling pieces that sit together.
The failure mode in this category is buying the photograph rather than the object. A ceramic vase that reads beautifully in a styled interior shot may be thin-walled, unglazed inside and unable to hold water. Weight, glaze coverage and base finishing are the details that separate the two, and they are the details product photography is worst at showing.
What to look for
- Weight and wall thickness on ceramics and glass — a substantial base is not a styling choice.
- Interior glazing on anything intended to hold water.
- Solid material rather than veneered or plated finishes on small objects.
- Whether a piece works alone, or only as part of the set it was photographed in.