The Artful Home Chic, Modern, Expensive

If your idea of bucket-list travel includes world-class shopping and fashion, consider art & shopping tours to round out your luxury travel experience. Nothing thrills like a trip to the Big Apple, especially when you discover the perfect sofa there.

- Carolina Real

New York City’s artful showrooms, stores, and shops dress the most exquisite residences around the world. More art than objects, the chairs, sofas, lighting, tables, and home accessories seem like sculptures which just happen to have utility—“objets-d’utilité.” Here, art marries home design, possessing the imagination in such a way as to make the viewer feel like they have entered a painting, rather than a showroom.

BDDW is a favorite destination for architects & designers, one of many destinations that can be featured on tours run by Orange York, offering first-class Contemporary Art & Design and Luxury Fashion shopping experiences. This must-see showroom located in SOHO, an oasis of quality and exquisite craftsmanship, resides in a neoclassical modern building echoing the contemporary furniture and art it houses.

The love of superior craftsmanship is shown in so many ways. Furniture hand rubbed with natural oils and lacquers make the artisanal pieces last. Fabrics and furniture, designed by owner Tyler Hays, reflect the sensibilities of the painter and sculptor, BDDW also carries exquisite fabrics that come directly from mills in Italy & Belgium. Signature sofas, solid walnut tables, and wall-mounted leather drawers could be considered fine art. Beware, an extraordinary BDDW sofa may list at $80,000. One may also find a deck swing, a painted crock, or a ceramic pendant from one of the collections by Robert Malherbe, Jen Wink Hays, Apparatus Studio, Julian Watts, Lindsey Adelman, Kieran Kinsella or Gratz Industries. 5 Crosby St., New York, NY 10013