When we leave New Hampshire someday, I'll definitely need to locate a new Red Chair Antiques to visit for inspiration because I think every girl needs one shop nearby where she can linger, explore, touch everything (sorry shop owners!), and draw inspiration from the various displays and products offered there. A place where you can enter feeling a bit uninspired and leave with more ideas than you'll ever know what to do with. That is the joy of shopping my friends. My husband also likes this store because it brings out the explorer in him. He especially enjoys looking through the vintage law books written in old German, he purchased several from this shop that he read and now displays on a shelf in our home.

I blogged about Red Chair last summer so you may recall the name, it's owned by Jocie Sinauer, but back then she didn't have a website so I had no place to point you online. I've been shopping at this store for 6 years and highly suggest a visit if you love Swedish and French antiques and flea market finds and you find yourself in historic Peterborough, NH.

We visit Red Chair at least one Sunday each month, so while the website is great, nothing tops the smell of fresh picked lavender as you enter this large store painted in muted gray and blue tones, filled with Swedish antiques (think curvy chairs covered in natural linen + iron beds), vintage linens from France, thousands of bits like buttons, shells, vintage postcards & photos, textile remnants, and lovely displays scattered throughout this little slice of antique heaven. Directly across from Red Chair is another store called Cross Road (blogged 3/06) that is a huge garden shop/interiors store (succulents in rusty urns, paintings of the New Hampshire countryside, and mercury glass birds) and near to that are a few galleries for art and a delicious restaurant with a kitchenwares/gourmet food store inside. If you visit Peterborough in the future, here's a link to shopping in their little town center (more like a quaint village, highly suggest visiting in October, hands down the best month in New Hampshire!).

I hope you enjoyed looking at my favorite little shop. Do you have a local shop that you'd consider your favorite? I'm always looking to add to the decor8 shopping links and fill them with stores you love, so please comment below no matter where you live. Thank you. :)

(images from red chair, 2nd image taken by me with permission.)