Homewares retail is the starting point at Adairs, which opened on Chapel Street in Melbourne's Prahran district in 1918. Vienna's Carl Auböck Workshop makes bookends and small sculptures, working across brass and wood with leather also used in its objects. The Auböck family founded that Bernardgasse workshop in 1906 and has continued it through four generations. In Venice, Fortuny prints cotton fabrics at its Giudecca factory, continuing textile production associated with Mariano Fortuny since 1922.
Founded in 1918 on Chapel Street in Prahran, Melbourne, as a small manchester and homewares shop; later ran as a small-format department store in Camberwell until 1979 before growing into an ASX-listed national retailer.
Best for Bedding towels and home accessories
Adairs was founded in 1918 on Chapel Street in Prahran, a Melbourne suburb, starting as a family-owned specialty shop selling manchester (sheets and towels), curtains, women's wear, and haberdashery. It later operated as a small-format department store in Camberwell, continuing in that format until 1979 before the business refocused specifically on home furnishings. The company was formerly registered as Home & Decor Holdings Pty Ltd and took the Adairs Limited name in May 2015, around when it listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: ADH). Today Adairs operates as a national omnichannel retailer built around three brands: Adairs itself, the homewares label Mocka, and furniture retailer Focus on Furniture, all centered on in-house-designed bedding, bathroom, and home decor products sold directly to consumers across Australia and New Zealand rather than through third-party retailers.
Made-in-France sock label founded 2009 in Saint-Étienne by e-commerce entrepreneur Patrice Cassard; production has been knitted since the outset by Broussaud Textiles, a family mill near Limoges founded in 1938, earning the Origine France Garantie label in 2017.
Best for Colorful French socks and gift boxes.
Archiduchesse was founded in 2009 in Saint-Étienne by Patrice Cassard, an early figure in French e-commerce who had previously founded the site Lafraise.com. The company was sold in 2012 to the Auvergne-based Seguin group, which in 2017 ceded 51% of its shares to Camille Zamo; that year the brand also relocated its base to the Paris region while retaining Saint-Étienne as its founding story. Manufacturing has stayed constant throughout: every pair has been knitted in the Limousin region by Broussaud Textiles, a family company founded in 1938 and described as a historic partner of the brand. In 2017 Archiduchesse earned the Origine France Garantie label, an official certification of French-based production. The brand today produces more than 130,000 pairs of socks a year, fulfilling around 18,000 online orders annually, with over 5,000 hours of knitting and more than 700 hours of quality control behind that output. Its range has expanded from socks into tights and sneakers, built around a stated catalogue of more than 100 colors.
A family workshop producing brass, wood, and leather objects including bookends, ashtrays, and small sculptures. The workshop was founded at Bernardgasse in 1906 and has been run by four generations of the Auböck family.
Best for Family workshop producing brass, wood, and leather objects including bookends, ashtrays
Fortuny produces decorative textiles at its historic factory on Giudecca in Venice, using methods passed down through generations of makers. Mariano Fortuny and Henriette Negrin opened the factory in 1922, and the production studios remain closed to the public. Visitors can arrange a showroom appointment to explore textiles and home accessories at the historic property.
Best for Venetian decorative textiles and showroom appointments on Giudecca
Fortuny's Giudecca property brings a working textile business and a visitor showroom together on the same Venetian island. Mariano Fortuny and his wife and collaborator Henriette Negrin opened the factory in the summer of 1922. Its production methods draw on techniques and machinery passed down from the founders, with the details kept within the business.
The distinction between the showroom and the production studios matters when planning a visit. Fortuny welcomes visitors to the showroom and gardens, but the studios themselves are not open to the public. An appointment is therefore a way to explore the textiles and home accessories, rather than a promise of watching the printing process.
The company lists its Venice address at Giudecca 805 and takes appointment requests through its contact page. It also maintains a New York showroom, which is reserved for industry professionals. For a Venice visit, selecting the relevant location when requesting an appointment keeps the enquiry with the team at the historic property.
Hjertholm has sold Scandinavian arts and crafts in Bergen since 1930. Its current shop is on the 5th floor of Galleriet at Torgallmenningen 8, carrying ceramics, glass, textiles, jewelry and gifts from more than 80 local, Norwegian and Scandinavian makers.
Best for Scandinavian ceramics, glass, textiles, jewelry, and handmade gifts
Four floors of Danish design orthodoxy since 1941 — the department store as national museum, everything purchasable. With artistic consultant Brita Drewsen, Dessau's BO presented fully arranged interiors rather than isolated stock — contemporary accounts describe the 1925–28 concept as previously unseen.
Best for Danish design under one roof
Illums Bolighus has traded on Amagertorv since 1941 as Copenhagen's — and by widespread consent Scandinavia's — definitive design department store: four floors given entirely to Nordic living, from furniture and lighting to ceramics, glass, textiles, and kitchenware. The store functions as a permanent survey of Danish modern and its heirs: Wegner and Jacobsen chairs, PH lamps, Kay Bojesen's teak monkey, Stelton and Georg Jensen steel, contemporary studio ceramics — the canon and its newest additions under one roof, staged with the store's celebrated Christmas displays as seasonal high point. For visitors it solves a real problem: Danish design is scattered across dozens of makers, and Illums assembles the whole argument in one building on Strøget. Buy the small classics — a Bojesen animal, a PH glass shade — as the portable essence of the Danish home.
Ship large purchases rather than carrying — the store handles export smoothly — and start at the top floor, working down as the rooms move from furniture to hand-luggage scale.
Founded in 1912, Jumonjiya is a long-running Naha kimono shop selling women’s and men’s kimono, Okinawan textiles, accessories and yukata, with garment care and dressing classes. Its new Omoromachi store is at 1-2-15 Omoromachi, Naha; after an August 9–14 pre-opening, the official site schedules the full opening for August 23, 2026.
Best for Naha kimono, Okinawan textiles, accessories, and dressing services
Lapuan Kankurit is a family weaving mill with roots in 1917, making linen and wool blankets, towels and scarves on Jacquard looms in Lapua. Its Helsinki store carries the washed-linen and pine-oiled ranges woven from Nordic natural fibres.
Lartigue 1910 makes striped Basque linens, espadrilles, bags and tableware from its regional textile tradition. Repeated patterns connect home and wardrobe pieces, supporting coordinated locally rooted gifts.
Best for Striped Basque linens, espadrilles, and bags from the Saint-Jean-de-Luz tradition
A Gérardmer household linen house whose story began in 1921 with Charles Prudent and the meadow-bleached linen of the Vosges, formalised as Le Linge des Vosges in 1923 and renamed Linvosges in 1931. Embroidered table and bed linen and bath collections are sold from 46 boutiques in France. The Gérardmer shop stands at 21 boulevard Adolphe Garnier.
Best for Vosges table and bed linen with hand-guided embroidery from a house founded in 1923
Linvosges traces its story to 1921, when Charles Prudent passed through Gérardmer. There he discovered blanchiment sur pré, the meadow bleaching of linen for which the Vosges were known. Finding no shop that sold this linen direct from the factory, he decided to specialise in it. An advertisement in the Annales politiques et littéraires at Easter 1923 brought more than 500 orders in under a month. The company Le Linge des Vosges was formed in February 1923. Shops followed in Nice in 1924 and Cannes in 1927, with Vittel in 1928. In 1931 the firm took the name Linvosges after competitors copied its graphics and slogan. The headquarters and shop were destroyed in 1944. A new building on rue Charles de Gaulle in Gérardmer was completed in September 1950. In 1960 the firm bought La Linière de Gérardmer and turned its weaving mill at Xonrupt-Longemer into a sewing workshop. In 1966 it patented a fitted sheet with velcro corners. The workshop held the Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant label from 2012 to 2017 for skills such as jour Venise and hand-guided embroidery. The MK Direct group bought Linvosges in 2007. The first foreign boutique opened in Brussels in 2022, and the house marked 100 years in 2023. Its Gérardmer boutique stands at 21 boulevard Adolphe Garnier, with a factory shop at 6 place des Déportés.
Lyon-area silk house founded in 1939 by Andre Malfroy and Jean Million; now based in Saint-Genis-Laval, it produces custom scarves and textiles for fashion houses and institutions, drawing on an 80-year pattern archive.
Best for Lyon silk scarves, stoles, shawls, and ties.
Maison Malfroy was founded in Lyon, France, in 1939 by Andre Malfroy and Jean Million, two silk-industry professionals. Today the firm is based at Villa Mercedes, in Saint-Genis-Laval, just outside Lyon. Malfroy's core business is custom silk scarves and textiles produced for fashion brands, cultural institutions, artists, and event agencies, drawing on a pattern archive spanning more than 80 years of designs. Beyond its bespoke B2B division, the house also sells ready-made silk products directly. Its client list, as stated on its own site, includes Moet and Chandon, Banque de France, and licensed Harry Potter merchandise.
Mezroze has manufactured textiles in Riga since 1929, weaving more than 50 types of cotton, linen, viscose and blended fabrics into bed linen collections such as Burti, Gerda and Rose, plus curtains and clothing. The factory supplies the Baltic states and Scandinavia.
Built in 1910 as the first house in Plettenberg Bay, this Kloof Street cottage under century-old oak trees has been curated by Suzie Ovenstone for three decades into a shop packed with hand-crafted homeware and clothing gathered from Zanzibar, Lamu, Mauritius, Madagascar, Mozambique and Kenya. Every piece carries a story from the artisan families behind it, making a stop here as much about the maker's tale as the find itself.
Best for Gifts & Homeware, Curated Décor, Clothing
It is best known for Iconic Swedish design — home decor, textiles, vibrant patterns by Josef Frank, handcrafted glass ornaments; timeless sophistication; combines tradition with bold modern aesthetics; since 1924.
Best for Josef Frank textiles, Swedish interiors and handcrafted glass
A hand-weaving workshop in St. Vigil in Enneberg in the Dolomites, run since 1915 and offering fabrics, home textiles and made-to-measure work alongside souvenirs and gifts. Visitors are welcomed at its weaving workshop and shop on Plazores Strasse and a second shop on Catarina-Lanz-Strasse, with an online shop as well.
Family-owned since 1928, Uwajimaya anchors Seattle's International District as an Asian grocery and specialty market. Its Japanese-forward selection runs alongside housewares, gifts and a food court.
Best for Japanese-forward Asian grocery, housewares, gifts, and a food court, family-run since 1928
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