Arader Galleries
Center City East
This is the flagship store of a highly respected chain that stocks the world's largest selection of 16th- to 19th-century prints and maps, specializing in botanicals, birds, and the American West.
4 Best Shopping in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Shopaholics love the City of Brotherly Love for its style—funky artwork and highbrow housewares, fine jewels, and haute couture.
Indeed, Philadelphia has spawned some influential fashion retailers. The Urban Outfitters chain was born in a storefront in West Philadelphia. Its sophisticated sister, Anthropologie, also has its roots in Philadelphia. Lagos, the popular high-end jewelry line, was founded here, and all items are still produced locally. High-fashion boutiques Joan Shepp, Knit Wit, and Elle Lauri, all in the Rittenhouse Square area, are well regarded by locals for designer clothing and accessories.
Some of the most spirited shopping in town is also pleasing to the palate. The indoor Reading Terminal Market and the outdoor Italian Market are bustling with urban dwellers buying groceries and visitors searching for the perfect Philadelphia cheesesteak. Equally welcoming is the city's quaint, cobblestone Antiques Row, the three-block stretch of Pine Street crammed with shops selling everything from estate jewelry to stained glass and vintage furniture. Also worth a trip is the Third Street Corridor in Old City, home to scads of independent, funky boutiques. In Northern Liberties, the Piazza at Schmidt's is a giant mixed-use development inspired by Rome's Piazza Navona, which houses 100,000 square feet of retail space bursting with creative entrepreneurs.
Neighborhoods are presented clockwise starting from the Old City, a commercial waterfront turned arts enclave on the Delaware River, moving south to South Philadelphia, then west to Center City and Rittenhouse Square, across the Schuylkill River to University City around the University of Pennsylvania campus, and ending in the north with Northern Liberties.
Calderwood Gallery
Northeast Philadelphia
French Art Deco, Modernist, and post-war furniture and objects from the 1940s and '50s tempt discerning collectors at this fine establishment, which has moved to a large, open space in northeast Philadelphia from its original Rittehouse Square townhouse.
M. Finkel & Daughter
Center City East
Late-18th- and early-19th-century American furniture, needlework, samplers, and folk art make this an important outpost for lovers of Americana. They also publish the antiques journal Samplings.
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The Philadelphia Print Shop, Ltd.
Chestnut Hill
It's easy to get lost amid the arcana at this charmingly cluttered shop, which has been dealing in historic prints, antique maps, and related reference books for more than 35 years.
