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Mid-century & vintage furniture Upon entering a La MOD you’ll discover an array of eclectic mid-century modern & contemporary furnishings as well as lighting, accessories and more, all at varying price points. Located in the Uptown Design District. Read more...
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Mid-century & vintage furniture In the Sunny Dunes Antique District there are a pair of large Antique Malls that shouldn’t be missed. Each boast multiple vendors offering a varied selection of mid-century and vintage fare including home furnishings, accessories, art, jewelry, collectibles and more. The Sunny Dunes Antique Mall is located at 507 East Sunny Dunes Rd. and is jammed with some Read more...
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Mid-century & vintage collectibles Located in the historic Kocher-Samson building which was designed by modernist architects Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher, in 1934, Bon Vivant is a boutique shop true to the building’s vintage, offering up lots of mid-century decorative accessories for the modern home. From colorful (and collectible!) vintage glassware and pottery, to retro lighting and select period Read more...
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Midcentury Modern Furniture An institution in San Diego since 1985, Boomerang for Modern relocated to their current 1,100 square foot showroom on North Palm Canyon Drive in 2020. This cozy space boasts a personally curated selection of top quality, vintage furnishings, lighting and accessories while also offering brand new classics from Herman Miller, Modernica, Flensted Mobiles and more. Boomerang for Read more...
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Mid-century/vintage furniture If you’re a discriminating modernist in the market for high-end mid-century collectibles, this is the place to be. You’ll find a curated collection of vintage eye candy in their spacious Palm Canyon Drive showroom, including home furnishings, original artwork and loads of accessories by designers like Frankl, Paulin, Castiglioni and more. Christopher Anthony Ltd. also offers their own Read more...
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Mid-century & vintage collectibles This is the same legendary Dazzles that occupied space on Palm Canyon Drive for 20 years, relocated to Rancho Mirage. It’s jammed with the kind of retro stuff you might find at a really great yard sale or in your grandmothers attic; Cyclomatic blenders, Bakelite cookware, skinny 60s ties, vintage Chanel … the list goes on, Read more...
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Modernism gift shop In addition to the usual “gift shop” branded apparel, Destination PSP offers modernists their choice of official Modernism Week souvenirs along with mid-century inspired glassware, ceramics and artwork. Palm Springs Film Festival and Desert AIDs Project items are also available, as are large-scale reproductions of vintage Palm Springs Life magazine covers, which are very nice! Destination PSP is Read more...
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Vintage & contemporary decor This shop offers high end, select, mid-century modern furniture, home accessories, vintage jewelry and Scandinavian glassware, but it’s the original art that may be the first thing to catch your eye as you walk into this gallery-like space. Flow Modern exhibits revolving collections by photographers, painters and sculptors to help put a contemporary finishing touch on Read more...
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Modern & Retro Inspired Furniture CLOSED IN 2025 – Visit their store in Palm Desert. 74180 Highway 111, Palm Desert, CA 92260 If you’re looking to renovate, redesign or redecorate your mid-century modern or retro inspired home, this is the place to come. Howard Hawkes and Kevin Kemper (the H&K in H3K) specialize in upscale design consultation and project management, Read more...
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Mid-century fashions & housewares Located around the corner from the Bootlegger Tiki bar and next to Ernest Coffee, this unique vintage shop offers a varied assortment of apparel, housewares and select furniture for those yearning to live the perfect, atomic-age lifestyle. From dinnerware, ceramics and Tiki mugs to Aloha wear, rat pack-era skirts, blouses, suits & ties, to groovy furniture and other wonderful knick-knacks you Read more...
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Modernism photography At photographer Gary Dorothy’s Imageville Gallery you’ll find hundreds of striking desert wilderness images sharing space with his architectural photography. Combining nature and mid-century modern has been Dorothy’s gift since opening Imageville in 2000, and as his many repeat clients will surely attest, Dorothy’s unique limited edition large-format canvases and smaller glossy prints are eye candy for the Read more...
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Mid-century inspired design/books Whatever was fabulous about the 1950s, 60s and 70s, this busy boutique store has it in spades; architectural books, design books, Hollywood glam books, Tiki culture books. Did we mention they sell books? In addition, Just Fabulous has a great selection of retro-inspired greeting cards, gift ware and home accessories, with the odd piece of Jonathan Adler Read more...
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Mid-century & vintage antiques Here’s an antique store your grandmother might feel at home in that’s brimming with reasonably priced second hand items such as home furnishings, accessories, jewelry, art, collectibles and various other knick-knacks. Mostly consignment items here, they also have a lot of non-mid-century merchandise so you might have to spend some time sifting through things to find Read more...
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Mid-century inspired art Using vintage metal as his canvas, artist Michael Weems combines iconic mid-century imagery with recycled automobile parts to create what he cleverly calls, “Autoerotica.” The same cheeky verbiage emblazoned on his gallery window will no doubt draw you in, where more unique works of art by Weems are on display, such as tableware, glassware, jewelry and sculpture. All Read more...
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Mid-century modern home design This large commercial & residential design showroom features all the latest in modernist home renovation and decoration materials. From tiles and wallpaper to counter tops and carpeting, Modern Home has everything you’ll need to make your new or vintage property look positively retro, with the added bonus of also offering “real” vintage furniture and accessories, a Read more...
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Mid-century & vintage furniture The best of the 1950s, 60s and 70s for furniture, lighting and accessories, Modern Way is a Palm Springs institution and has been repeatedly voted “Best Vintage Store” in the Coachella Valley. You’ll find mid-century staples like Eames, Knoll, Panton and Saarinen along side rare(er) one-of-a-kind items, and for modernist audiophiles, Modern Way even carries vintage Read more...
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Mid-century inspired art Inspired by the Atomic Age esthetic of The Jetsons, L.A. artist Nat Reed reinterprets mid-century Americana from the 1950s and 60s in loose, rich commercial-type renderings. His small gallery in downtown Palm Springs is like walking into a candy store full of rainbow colored treasures. From Tiki to Googie to Kitsch, Reed’s work is full of fun, cultural and architectural Read more...
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Mid-century/vintage collectibles The Palm Springs Vintage Market takes place the first Sunday of every month (October thru May) downtown at 356 N Calle Encilia, just north of the Agua Caliente Casino and offers a variety of merchants selling rare vintage and retro items from fashions to furniture and everything in between. A great place where you can enjoy the outdoors, Read more...
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Retro inspired home furnishings This big, bright showroom in the Palm Springs Uptown Design District is filled with mid-century modern inspired indoor and outdoor furniture, rugs, wall art, bedding, lighting, jewelry, architecture books and retro home decor & accessories. Popular items include various lines from Blu Dot, located on the corner of W. El Alameda & N. Palm Canyon Drive. Read more...
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Mid-Century Furnishings Just East of Palm Springs off Hwy. 111 in Cathedral City is a group of Mid-century Modern vintage stores well worth the short drive. 68-929 Perez Road is home to four different shops, each specializing in different aspects of the Mid-century vernacular, including: Hedge – A combination of unique art pieces and restored higher-end Mid-century furnishings. Spaces – Read more...
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Midcentury and Modern Decor This playful downtown showroom features a mix of Midcentury and Modern furnishings, lighting, home accessories and more. They even offer an extensive collection of unique wallpaper and showcase work by local artists. Located downtown near the corner of West Tahquitz Canyon Way and North Indian Canyon Drive. See more on their facebook page or Instagram. Read more...
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Located at the corner of N Palm Canyon Drive and W Racquet Club Rd., this 11,000 sq. ft. showroom boasts an ever-changing collection of midcentury classics and eclectic ephemera that should satisfy any vintage picker. From the 1950s to the 1980s and everything inbetween, you’ll find well priced, unique items at Re[x], including wall hangings, rugs, pop culture items, Blenko Read more...
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Vintage fashion & decor The thrift store to end all thrift stores, the majority of Revivals vintage merchandise – which includes retro furniture, housewares and clothing – comes from donations and consignments. They are also, largely, a volunteer-run operation which enables them to contribute the majority of their proceeds towards the Desert AIDs Project, which is a great reason to Read more...
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Mid-century art Located downtown in the historic La Plaza district, at the corner of Arenas and S. Indian Canyon, this large gallery holds a treasure trove of fine art from the mid-century; an eclectic collection of original paintings, sculptures and more by some of America’s most renowned modernists and impressionists (and international artists) including the likes of Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Joan Read more...
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Vintage mid-century fashion For fashions from the 1950s through to the 1980s, this cozy consignment boutique (formerly Deja Vu) features genuine retro clothing from Palm Springs’ heyday representing the desert lifestyle. Women will find everything from casual dresses and footwear to sparkly gowns for that special event, while men will enjoy the swanky resort wear shirts and snazzy sports jackets from the Read more...
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Mid-century furniture/collectibles For one stop shopping, The Galleria on North Palm Canyon Drive offers six different boutique shops overflowing with vintage international modern furniture and accessories for the home. From lighting and glassware to original period artwork that includes paintings and sculptures, you could spend hours here wandering from one boutique to the next looking for that perfect something. Located Read more...
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Mid-century inspired art One of only two retail boutiques (the other, in West Hollywood) dedicated solely to artist SHAG‘s distinctive modernist, hipster art, this fun immersive gallery offers a large selection of limited edition prints as well as awesome SHAG merchandise including Tikis, towels, handbags, books and much more! Located in the Uptown Design District next to TRIO restaurant. Fun Read more...
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Mid-century design & decor Designed by E. Stewart Williams in 1955 as the Harold Hicks Real Estate and Insurance building, this iconic structure is now called The Shops at Thirteen Forty Five, home to a design collective comprised of 10 diverse shops ranging from vintage and contemporary furniture, interior design, art, photography and jewelry; most with a nod towards the Read more...