Beauty Supplies

Vintage modern design for your home

he stylish furniture and accessories in Abodeon will catch your eye and not let go. This surprising find in the underrated strip of stores between Harvard and Porter squares specializes in rare vintage modern furniture by the likes of Eames and Knoll (above), who turned the design world upside down in the middle of the last century with striking creations of vinyl, wire, mesh, and plastic. But there's also new furniture, accessories, art, and gadgets for every budget, or just to ogle. Nesin

Shhhh! The name is a combination of
“abode” and “beyond” invented by husband-and-wife owners Dale and Terri Anderson

Shhh who knew

Furniture designer Florence Knoll worked in Cambridge for Bauhaus pioneers Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, who fled Nazi Germany and taught together at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. With her first husband, Hans Knoll, she went on to open Knoll Associates.