For an Erwin Lambeth Slipper Chair

THE SOMERSET HOUSE 76 N. 6th St., Williamsburg; thesomersethouse.com/shop  OWNED BY FORMER FASHION DESIGNER Alan Eckstein, this recently opened Williamsburg showroom sells meticulously maintained, often rare vintage pieces, from a Eugenia Butler oak puzzle chair ($2,800), to a pink Fritz Hansen lambshearling three-legged stool ($395), to a bentwood Danish ottoman reupholstered in Schumacher leopard-print fabric ($850). The inventory goes far beyond seating, though: The two-story space has vases, couches, coffee tables, consoles, and photography prints. And Scott says the “inspiring” way Eckstein stages it all—for example, “sitting the colorful pieces that pop against worn, weathered woods that prevent it from feeling as kitschy, or ’90s-dorm-room-esque, as other stores”—has influenced his own apartment’s design. Plus the variety, Scott says, is just plain fun: He once spotted, in a single corner, a pattered grasshopper chair on a cowskin rug beside a white sofa with pink pillows. Jill Singer, editor of online design magazine Sight Unseen, who lives nearby, was struck on her first visit by the “entire vintage car in the showroom” (a BMW Isetta, situated between Snaka Waka sculptures).