Where to Buy Modern Furniture in Los Angeles

Los Angeles buys furniture the way it builds houses: by neighborhood. The stores that matter most right now are Lawson-Fenning and Galerie Half on Melrose, Croft House on La Brea, JF Chen on Highland, and Nickey Kehoe on Beverly, backed by a deep bench of vintage dealers east of the 101 led by Amsterdam Modern, Sunbeam Vintage, and Marta. Add Room & Board’s Helms Bakery store for accessible new pieces and MIDCENTURYLA in North Hollywood for European imports, and you can furnish a whole house without ordering anything sight unseen.

Every store below was verified open as of June 2026, with current addresses. For each one: what they carry, where the prices sit, and the one thing worth the drive. Two longtime favorites did not make it. Consort on Melrose and Dream Collective in Silver Lake have both closed, so cross them off your list.

The Eastside: warehouses, a theater, and a gallery

The best vintage hunting in Los Angeles happens east of the 101, where the square footage is real and the markups are gentler. If your house has midcentury bones, and on the Eastside and in the canyons it probably does, this is where the furniture that fits them lives. It is the same sourcing territory the city’s canyon houses draw from.

Amsterdam Modern, Echo Park

Ellen LeComte has been importing Dutch and European vintage since 2009, and her 10,000-square-foot warehouse at 134 Glendale Boulevard holds furniture, lighting, and household objects from the 1950s through the 1980s. Everything sells as found, without restoration, which keeps prices in the attainable middle for the quality. The one thing worth the drive: container-load depth. Where most vintage shops have one Dutch armchair, Amsterdam Modern has a row of them, which matters when you need six dining chairs that match.

Sunbeam Vintage, Highland Park

Sunbeam fills a former movie theater at 106 South Avenue 58 with 6,500 square feet of midcentury, vintage, and vintage-inspired new pieces under 20-foot ceilings. This is the friendliest entry point on the list, with prices that suit a first apartment as easily as a second home, and it is open seven days a week. The one thing worth the drive: turnover. Stock moves fast, so a second visit is never the same store twice.

Marta, on the Silver Lake and Atwater border

Marta, at 3021 Rowena Avenue, is a gallery that treats furniture as art and art as furniture. Founded in 2019, it shows collectible contemporary design, including a 2025 exhibition of objects carved by Vince Skelly from trees salvaged after the LA wildfires. Prices are gallery prices, and that is the point. The one thing worth the drive: you will see work here, from makers like Minjae Kim and Carsten in der Elst, years before the rest of the city catches on.

DEN, East Hollywood

DEN keeps an appointment-only showroom at 5102 Fountain Avenue stocked with high-end 20th-century vintage: sculptural seating, case pieces, and lighting sourced internationally, plus restoration, staging, and prop rental for the production crowd. The LA Times called the collection a feast for the eyes, and the pricing reflects that tier. The one thing worth the appointment: condition. Where as-found dealers sell projects, DEN sells finished pieces ready for the room.

Melrose, La Brea, and Beverly: the showroom corridor

For new California modern and collector-grade vintage in one walkable run, work the corridor from Melrose Avenue down La Brea and over to Beverly Boulevard. Five of the city’s defining stores sit within a few minutes of each other here, just east of the trade showrooms covered in our La Cienega Design Quarter walking guide.

Lawson-Fenning, Melrose Avenue

Lawson-Fenning is the reference point for new California modern: clean-lined upholstery, walnut and oak casegoods, and ceramics, much of it made in Los Angeles. The flagship sits at 6824 Melrose, and in October 2025 the company opened Studio LF next door, a 7,500-square-foot showroom and design studio in a 1930s bow truss warehouse. Note that the longtime Silver Lake shop has closed; Melrose is now the address. Prices run upper-mid to high. The one thing worth the drive: seeing the full collection in styled room settings rather than guessing from a website.

Galerie Half, Melrose Avenue

Across the street at 6911 Melrose, Cameron Smith’s Galerie Half spreads 20,000 square feet across three buildings: European 20th-century design, French and Scandinavian pieces, primitive objects, and architectural elements, composed like film sets. This is connoisseur territory with prices to match. The one thing worth the drive: the eye. Half’s pairings of rough oak, worn leather, and museum-grade modernism have shaped the look of half the serious interiors in this city.

JF Chen, Highland Avenue

Joel Chen has dealt antiques and 20th-century design in Los Angeles for five decades, and his showroom at 931 North Highland fills more than 30,000 square feet of a former concrete bank vault with museum-quality furniture, lighting, and decorative arts. Prices sit at the top of this list. The one thing worth the drive: range. Ming furniture, Italian glass, and postwar French masters share floor space, and the inventory rewards slow walking.

Croft House, La Brea Avenue

Croft House designs and builds solid-wood furniture in its own downtown LA factory and sells it from a showroom at 326 North La Brea. Expect live-edge and clean-lined dining tables, beds, and credenzas at mid-level prices that undercut comparable made-in-LA work. The one thing worth the drive: customization. Because production happens ten miles away, you can order your dimensions, wood, and finish without import lead times.

Nickey Kehoe, Beverly Boulevard

Interior designers Todd Nickey and Amy Kehoe run their shop at 7266 Beverly Boulevard as a working extension of their studio: the NK Collection of custom upholstery and casegoods alongside globally sourced vintage, ceramics, and art. Prices are high and earned. The one thing worth the drive: the mix. A hand-blocked lampshade next to a Shaker-inflected dining chair teaches you more about composing a room than most design books.

Culver City and the Westside

The Westside trades the corridor’s gallery polish for volume and value, anchored by two very different warehouses. Both reward a Saturday morning before the parking fills.

Big Daddy’s Antiques, near Culver City

Shane Brown’s Big Daddy’s has run since 1996 and now occupies a 22,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor warehouse at 3334 La Cienega Place. The mix is rustic, industrial, and garden: reclaimed tables, architectural fragments, iron gates, and oversized statement pieces, mostly at mid-level prices. The one thing worth the drive: scale. When a room needs one big honest object, a 10-foot workbench or a zinc-topped console, this is where you find it.

Room & Board, Helms Bakery District

Room & Board’s store at 3231 Helms Avenue in the Helms Bakery complex is the strongest accessible-modern option in the city. More than 90 percent of the line is US-made, the design help is free, and prices land well below the corridor showrooms for solid, durable pieces. The one thing worth the drive: the Helms district itself, where you can compare several modern retailers in a single parking trip.

The Valley detour

One San Fernando Valley stop earns a place on this list, and it earns it on tonnage. MIDCENTURYLA imports vintage by the container, and the drive over the hill usually pays for itself.

MIDCENTURYLA, North Hollywood

At 5333 Cahuenga Boulevard, MIDCENTURYLA stocks 12,000 square feet of Italian, French, Brazilian, and broader European vintage from the 1960s through the 1980s, restored and floor-ready. Prices sit mid to high, below Melrose for comparable pieces. The one thing worth the drive: the rosewood and travertine. Italian and Brazilian casegoods at this depth simply do not exist elsewhere in the city.

Vintage or new: how to split the budget

Buy vintage where age adds value and new where it subtracts. Casegoods, dining tables, lighting, and accent chairs from Amsterdam Modern, MIDCENTURYLA, or Galerie Half will outlast and outperform new equivalents at the same price, and they hold resale value. Sofas, beds, and anything that takes daily body weight are usually better new, from Lawson-Fenning, Croft House, or Room & Board, where you get fresh foam, current fire standards, and a warranty.

Read condition terms before you fall in love. As-found dealers like Amsterdam Modern sell honest wear; budget for reupholstery or refinishing on some pieces. And measure twice: vintage rarely returns. This mixed approach, one or two collected pieces per room against a quieter new foundation, is exactly how the designers defining Los Angeles right now build their projects.

Questions readers ask

What is the best area in LA for furniture shopping in one day?

The Melrose, La Brea, and Beverly corridor. Park once near Melrose and Highland and you can walk Lawson-Fenning, Galerie Half, and JF Chen, then drive five minutes to Croft House and Nickey Kehoe. That single run covers new California modern, European vintage, and collector-grade pieces across every price tier above entry level.

Where can I find affordable modern furniture in Los Angeles?

Start at Sunbeam Vintage in Highland Park, where solid midcentury pieces regularly cost less than new flat-pack equivalents. Amsterdam Modern’s as-found pricing rewards buyers willing to refinish, and Room & Board at Helms Bakery is the most dependable source for well-made new pieces under corridor prices. Check clearance floors and as-is sections first.

Do LA furniture showrooms require appointments?

Most welcome walk-ins. Lawson-Fenning, Galerie Half, JF Chen, Croft House, Nickey Kehoe, Sunbeam Vintage, Amsterdam Modern, Big Daddy’s, and Room & Board all keep public hours. DEN is appointment-only. Watch the clock, though: many close at 5 pm, and several, including Galerie Half and Amsterdam Modern, are dark on Sundays.