Peter Grants

Peter Grant’s bills itself as a lifestyle store and I’d say that’s pretty close to the truth. Mostly, the lifestyle items in this store include lots of beautiful, extremely comfortable-​looking furniture, a few eye-​popping, gallery quality pieces of art — especially the large Raku pottery works. However, there are also some cool smaller goodies like hand-​blown glass pen holders, some very angular and modern blown glass oil lamps, paintings, pottery dishes and the like. I think what I liked most about this store was its merchandising. I really felt as if I was walking around in somebody’s house or vacation retreat — very nicely appointed vacation retreat — and the store had that warm, inviting feel that soft lighting and careful object placement helps foster. Even on an unseasonably hot day, the store felt calm and cool and made us want to linger — we briefly considered a short nap on one of the double recliner-​style loveseats we noticed…
Most extravagant and kick-​ass item: the huge steel indoor/​outdoor gong crafted by artist Tom Torrens that sits just inside the front door… amazingly cool.