Description: ABC is a great place to browse around for things for your home, and even to get decorating ideas. The store has an eclectic range of merchandise: antique furniture; sumptious bedding; beautiful throws and pillows; china, every day dishes and stemware; a large section of the store is even devoted to Asian antiques and artifacts. They also have a terrific fabric store in the basement - a real treasure trove of gorgeous materials and trims.
The main floor of the store houses a flower shop, chocolate shop, stationery department (complete with different photo albums, journals, and picture frames), and lighting (they have many lovely stained glass and other antique fixures) as well as relatively new additions of women's jewelry (beautiful stuff!), scarves and purses. While the lamps re lovely to look at, I have found the same or similar lamps for half the price in the Bowery, but it's so much nicer browsing at ABC! The bedding department upstairs offers the best of the best linens, comforters, pillows and other accoutrements for the bed. The selection is lovely. They carry Anichini, Calvin Klein, Fino Lino, and other high-end lines. The bath department and tabletop department (which in addition to dishes and glasses also features table linens and other such items) both have very nice selections as well. Their carpet/rug deparment is top-notch. Several years ago they cut a special-size area rug for me out of wool berber. I had a very good experience with the knowledgeable sales people, and the rug is standing up beautifully to our two dogs (just like they said it would!).
ABC also has a cafe, serving lunch, coffee, tea and desserts. It's decorated with items from the store and is very cozy - a very nice place to grab a pick-me-up.
Check out their website: http://www.abchome.com/
If you feel like taking a trip to the Bronx, ABC has a warehouse store there:
ABC Carpet & Home Warehouse Outlet
1055 Bronx River Avenue, (corner Bruckner Expressway),
Bronx, NY
Tel. 718.842.8770
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