shopping in new orleans
Photo By Paul Costello, May 2006
- New Orleans Shops
- Uptown and French Quarter shops and restaurants are starting to buzz. Decorator Vesta Fort gives us her black book for experiencing the city's unstoppable style.
- Ann Koerner Antiques
- 4021 Magazine Street
(504) 899-2664 Koerner has the most consistently original eye in the city. While most shops lean heavily toward French, she stocks a great mix of Swedish neoclassical and Italian pieces as well, plus one-of-a-kind items such as woven straw rugs from Nigeria and gilded bamboo English Regency benches.
- Aux Belles Choses
- 3912 Magazine Street
(504) 891-1009 This shop offers everything from old garden pots and vintage linens to new kitchenware. Not to mention the best silver bargains in town. There are troves of fish sets, ladles, demitasse spoons and more. Perfect for wedding presents or for anyone who loves to set a sumptuous table.
- Bevolo Gas & Electric Lights
- 521 Conti Street
(504) 522-9485 Homes all over Louisiana have Bevolo's reproduction 17th-century "French Quarter" gaslights illuminating their entryways. Check out the full line of lanterns, handcrafted out of heavy-gauge copper, along with chandeliers and pot racks.
- Bremermann designs
- 3943 Magazine Street
(504) 891-7763 Stop by this antiques shop and studio run by Bremermann, the queen of New Orleans designers, for dining-room tables, fine old prints, chandeliers and other mostly French covetables.
- Jon Vaccari Design
- 4858 Magazine Street
(504) 891-2863 The glamorous inventory ranges from 19th-century to 1940s French. Lamps, chandeliers and furniture seem straight off a Lana Turner movie set, including Vaccari-designed ultrachic white leather chairs.
- Leontine Linens
- 3806 Magazine Street
(800) 876-4799 Jane Scott Hodges founded her business—on Leontine Street— in 1996. Her linens now occupy prime space at Bergdorf's in NYC . The monograms are wonderfully unique, the sheets luxurious, the satin comforters divine. And you can custom-order an entire linens wardrobe.
- MacMaison
- 3963 Magazine Street
(504) 891-2863 Exquisite French and Italian pieces are this place's forte, from fine furniture to an increasing inventory of paintings and wide variety of lighting. It's all chosen by owner and architectural restorer Michael Carbine, the man behind some of the city's most stunning houses.
- Ma Puce Antiques
- 4939 Tchoupitoulas Street
(504) 261-6951 Owner Hubert Sandot hails from Paris, and for years he owned and cooked at the popular New Orleans restaurant Martinique. Now he has realized his dream of opening a French antiques shop. Go for fine chairs and chandeliers—and a dose of Hubert's considerable charm.
- Marsh Garden Decor
- 4920 Tchoupitoulas Street
(504) 891-1000 New Orleans is a city of patios and courtyards, and Marsh is the place to go for all things outdoor: fabulous furniture (wire chairs, cast "tree" tables), statuary and fountains, light fixtures, even antique garden edging.
