Pier 1 Imports

If your expectations are low, this place will surprise you. There are some good deals on home décor, like pillows, picture frames, and candles. I have bought a few nice decorations here, but it’s not a dependable stop. One thing I love is that there always seems to be something on sale. I am proud to say that I got two throw pillows for 75% off a couple of months ago, and they are beautiful!
Highlights: glassware, placemats, pillows, and candles.

Quite overpriced, in my opinion. Also nothing looks like it belongs in your home, it all looks like staging furniture and accents. No personality at all. Still, I got all of my plain, stark white dishes here.

I don’t buy many big-​ticket items at Pier 1 (like furniture) but for knick-​knacks and décor I love their stuff!
I am a color junkie and I love that I can always count on some bright, bold colors from Pier 1 — even if it’s just candles or pillows! This stuff is definitely in the «want, not need» category of shopping but that makes it a fun place to browse (especially because Pier 1 doesn’t let you shop online).
I think some of the stuff is expensive for what it is, but a lot of it is really fun, contemporary pieces that fit well with my early-​20s urban aesthetic. Some of this stuff is just as nice, if not nicer, than Urban Outfitters or Anthropologie Home, and at competitive prices.
Guilty secret: I really want a rockasan chair for our porch!

This store is really packed with a lot of merchandise, yet, it does not feel like it is all crammed in. Good overall flow to the store.
I have gone into this Pier 1 many times with questions and the staff are very helpful and willing to take the time you need to figure things out.
I have found their prices to be very reasonable and have bought many big ticket items from them as well as little things. I have been very happy with my purchases and have purchased most of my office furniture here.
I like that this store is right at the Porter Square MBTA stop.

I never found Pier 1 that useful. Just a bunch of weirdly shaped gaudy junk that pretends to be ‘art’ that will be too heavy to carry when I move. The staff is friendly though (they get one star by themselves), and I guess if you really want a lazyboy wicker chair that will blow out your back, this is the place to find one.

good help (friendly sales people). clean store. fun products. it would be great if they would identify things that are purchased through fair trade.

I’m not a big Pier 1 kind of person, but the staff at this Pier one were really really helpful!

I stopped by today to spend another gift card on decorative stuff for my apartment. After not finding much I liked at Crate & Barrel, I was worried about not finding anything here (everyone keeps talking about wicker!), but I was quite pleased with the selection and their summer sale.
Even though I didn’t buy much from their sale, there were clearly marked signs indicating sale stuff. Window drapes half price (~$ 25), candles, vases, 4^th of July stuff, etc. I found a cute doormat with pastels and flowers for $ 15 (we’ll see whether my male partner will likey), a small vase for a bar table $ 6, a flower for said vase on sale for under $ 2, an incense holder $ 8, and a frame for $ 14.
They have a great selection of pillows, table linens and placemats, outdoor lanterns, candles, candle holders, and reed diffusers. There was only one tall incense holder in the place — luckily goes with my living room décor — and I wasn’t impressed with their photo frame selection, unless you like whimsical stands that you can display photos in. Crate & Barrel’s was nicer, and Bed, Bath, and Beyond has more.
Service was ok, I wandered around for at least 30 min before I asked for help, but they were very nice when I asked. I would come back for affordable, decorative knicknacks.

This Pier 1 is really the best one I’ve ever been to — it’s packed with goodies — and staff is seriously helpful here to boot.
We’ve purchased: a desk, chairs, a media console, and shelving here — all at different times, and the staff wheeled it out to our car for us and helped us load it in. Now maybe they have to do that — I don’t know — but I really appreciate it. Even smaller shelves (that I could have carried) they have put on the 2 wheeler and brought it out for us. Hey treating me nicely keeps me coming back!
This is my must go to place before the holidays every year — I stock up on wrapping paper, ribbons, bows, gift tags, fancy gift boxes, gift bags, and other decorative items. It’s not too expensive and it looks fantastic!
Plus they have great smelling candles and those room reed diffuser thingys. Sales are also great here. I cannot walk by this store without going in — ever! I live close by so I’m in here at least once a week. I don’t even know what I’m expecting to find but I enjoy wandering the aisles.
Agree with the others — I do NOT like the wicker — I mean really who buys a wicker couch, how is that comfortable? but they must have people buying it if they keep making it. I just hope I’m not invited to that person’s house — I want to sit on a real couch!

I constantly used to wander through here when I lived in the area, and always found some useless crap to put on a bookcase or a table or something. Thanks for cluttering me up, pier 1. Like a true friend, you never tell me to save my money and stop buying odd vases or candles or baskets or toilet paper holders or… ok, you get the point.

I agree with Jordan: wicker is for twigs. No, twigs are better than wicker. Wait. You know what I mean.
I would like to Unilocal about the fantastic 6 foot tall Giraffe available at Pier 1 in Porter Square. It is awesome.
«Just a glance at this stately giraffe serves as a reminder of adventures in faraway lands. Hand-​carved and hand-​crafted of albasia wood and rattan. Hand-​painted with a wax finish. A Pier 1 exclusive.»