Explore East Midtown

The Architects & Designers Building is home to New York’s ultimate showroom resource featuring the City’s largest selection of luxury kitchen & bath, appliances, tile & stone, wood flooring, custom A/V, home automation, carpeting, lighting and high-end residential & contract furniture. With 35 showrooms, featuring thousands of distinctive products, the A&D Building offers discerning homeowners and trade professionals the finest collection of premium brands to suit any design project from modern to transitional to traditional – all under one roof. Open Monday - Friday, 9:00 Am TO 5:00 pm, the A&D Building is known in the design industry as “New York’s ultimate design resource.”

For over forty years, Alice Kwartler has been the premier destination for those seeking quality antique and estate jewelry, silver, glassware, enamel and many other interesting and unusual pieces.

Ann-Morris Inc. was established in 1947 in New York City, and is one of the premier destinations for the design trade. Established at the end of WWII to seek out unique antique furniture and lighting to import back to the USA, Ann-Morris has expanded by adding Custom Lighting as well as Custom Pot Racks, which today are a major part of their signature collection.

APF Munn Master Framemakers is one of the finest mirror and frame manufacturers in the world. They handcraft frames for art and mirrors—in styles extending throughout most important historical periods. Many of the mirrors in the APF collection are created by notable American designers.

Established in 1925, the six-story Argosy Book Store is New York City's oldest independent bookseller, stocking an enormous array of antiquarian and out-of-print volumes.

Jewelry and antiques

Carlos de la Puente Antiques is a second generation family business that specializes in antique and vintage lighting. Located in the heart of the Design District in Manhattan, they have three showrooms filled with chandeliers, lanterns and lamps. With over 20 years of experience working with designers, architects and buyers worldwide, this puts them in the unique position of not only providing quality antiques but also of working very closely with clients at every stage of the design process.

Carlos de la Puente Antiques is a second generation family business that specializes in antique and vintage lighting. Located in the heart of the Design District, they have three showrooms filled with chandeliers, lanterns and lamps. With over 20 years of experience working with designers, architects and buyers worldwide, this puts them in the unique position of not only providing quality antiques but also of working very closely with clients at every stage of the design process.

Fine art and prints

Since 1927, Cassina has been a preeminent design leader and manufacturer of original contemporary furniture.

Under the direction of renowned English antique dealer and designer Roger Entwistle, Cavendish Grey has grown to become the influential force in the field of architectural stonework. In its 21 years, the company has set trends with custom design and selection of flooring, fireplaces, fountains, door surrounds and other architectural elements.

Daum and Haviland are two international luxury brands, Daum specializing in Art Glass and Haviland in Porcelain.

D&D Antiques Gallery is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and can truly be called the finest antique boutique in New York, boasting two amazing showrooms which are open to decorators & designers as well as the public.

Dejaju is an upscale women's fashion boutique and tailoring service located in a stately space with a fine-arts gallery upstairs.

Since 1983, Eileen Lane Antiques is New York City's leading importer of Swedish Antiques. A family owned business, Eileen and her husband Bo can solve the most challenging design requirements.

Exquisite Surfaces is the premier source for antique and reproduction products ranging from fireplaces and fountains to limestone, terra cotta and wood.

Ferrell Mittman is a family owned and operated creator of luxury custom case goods and upholstery.

The Fine Arts Building houses twelve premiere "to the trade" design showrooms on 59th Street between Second and Third Avenues, attracting elite architects, designers, and their clients to a handful of the finest quality resources in fabrics, furniture, wall coverings, antiques, accessories, upholstery and carpets.

Flexform is one of the leading Italian manufacturers of luxury furniture. The New York showroom offers the entire product line, from cabinetry and modern tables made from walnut, ash and mahogany to luxury sofas and sectionals with over 1500 upholstery options. Founded in 1967, and developed through a decades-long family tradition, Flexform is renowned for its high quality furniture production. The Flexform brand has been instantly recognizable for almost half a century. Over the last thirty years the company, which is located just outside of Milan in Meda, Italy, has produced an extensive range of products that have taken their place in the history of Italian design for their quality, elegance and comfort.

Forum Gallery was founded in New York City in 1961 as a gallery of American figurative art. Among the first artists represented were Raphael Soyer, Chaim Gross, David Levine and Gregory Gillespie. The gallery was a founding member of the Art Dealers Association of America in 1962. From inception, Forum Gallery’s contemporary exhibition program has been augmented by mounting curated, thematic exhibitions of historic importance, in keeping with the gallery’s focus on humanism.

Gallery 59 is a Modern and Contemporary art gallery representing international and American artists and featuring an eclectic and well-researched inventory. Clients include museums, private collections and corporations.

Gaspare Asaro caters to the most exclusive interior decorators and discerning clients. The hallmark of their ever changing collection is lighting, furniture and art from the most distinguished Mid Century Modern Italian designers as well as their recently released contemporary collection, Gaspare Asaro Studio.

At Hartman Rare Art, they specialize in the sale of antique Chinese and Japanese arts, as well as antique and also 20th century European, American, and English decorative arts and silver. Of particular note in the Asian arts department are our collections of Chinese jades and porcelain, as well as Japanese netsuke and sword fittings. In the silver department, collections by Paul Storr, Hester Bateman and Georg Jensen are truly impressive.

Hixenbaugh Ancient Art is dedicated to handling fine authentic antiquities. All of the pieces they handle are legally acquired in complete accordance with US and international regulations and laws concerning the import and sale of ancient objects, and hey deal only in authentic pieces with minimal or no restoration. All objects sold by them are guaranteed genuine and as described.

ILIAD Antik is a World Class purveyor of Austro-Hungarian Biedermeier, French Art Deco and Art Moderne Furniture. Where Classicism meets Modernism, their collection has served as a premier source for major museums, private collectors, art advisors, architects and leading interior designers.