Secret Spot

One of my favorite places to shop for brand new designer furniture

Over the decades I’ve spent shopping for high-end, designer furnishings, I’ve amassed a roster of “secret spots” — places I go to find really incredible things that honestly never fail me. I’m sharing one of them today, because I love you.

You’re probably well aware that my whole deal is thrifting (I wrote a book on the subject, it’s all I talk about on Instagram, etc.) but I’m pretty skilled at finding high-end pieces just about…anywhere.

Years ago, I was TJ Maxx’s first-ever official Maxxinista, after I tagged TJ’s in a Facebook post when I found a designer dress at one of their Jacksonville locations. (Over the years, I’ve found everything from Valentino runway couture to Missoni home items and even Balenciaga at TJ’s and Marshall’s stores—and I promise, a newsletter with tips on how to shop those stores is coming).

But it isn’t just TJ’s, thrift stores, and outlet malls that have designer pieces at a discount. In fact, Jacksonville, Florida is home to a store that has pretty incredible designer home finds at a steep, steep discount — and they’re all brand-new, never-used pieces.

More on that below — and it’s geared toward paid subscribers (I do one paid subscriber email per month, on the first Sunday, and the rest are all free).

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But here are some other odds and ends, because I love all of you.

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4 things I loved this week:

• I dropped a new series of original pieces of art on Chairish. This one has proven the most popular.

• We watched Theater Camp on Hulu. It’s kind of like a mix of The Office and the best Disney show that no one talks about — which transformed reality tv IMO — Bug Juice. It’s a faux documentary about theater camp and the counselors who teach it with Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Patti Harrison and others. It was very funny.

• Who will be the first magazine writer to drop a Taylor Swift profile and title it “Seemingly Swift?” This woman is so powerful.

• I made this broccoli calzone and it was honestly one of the best things I’ve ever made in my life. I did a homemade checca sauce to go with, and I used King Arthur gluten-free pizza flour to make the dough.
  
  PS. I’m planning to publish a bonus newsletter this month, and I need your questions! Ask me anything (leave a comment below or submit here) and I’ll do my best to answer it.

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Now on to the good stuff… one of my secret shopping spots for designer furniture….