Loveliest places to window shop online
November 15, 2024 7:52 PM Subscribe
I like to shop online. I seldom buy anything, but I enjoy the eye candy. What sites have a pleasurable browsing experience and beautiful products?
Who has a calm vibe and a reliable, well-organized site? Minimal noise, pop ups, and aggressive sales stuff in general?
(It would be great if they shipped to Canada, just in case I cave.)
Who has a calm vibe and a reliable, well-organized site? Minimal noise, pop ups, and aggressive sales stuff in general?
(It would be great if they shipped to Canada, just in case I cave.)
Ok you may need to be a specific sort of person for this one, but I have passed many a pleasurable hour browsing the McMaster-Carr catalogue. Every single sort of industrial doohickey and thingamabob under the sun, laid out in soothing monochrome on a fast, responsive, well-organized website (even on mobile!). No sales, no coupons, no “subscribe to our newsletter for 10% off”. They even ship to Canada!
posted by btfreek at 9:06 PM on November 15, 2024 [6 favorites]
posted by btfreek at 9:06 PM on November 15, 2024 [6 favorites]
I really like Uncommon Goods and do most of my gift shopping there. Looks like international shipping is an option.
posted by platinum at 11:41 PM on November 15, 2024 [4 favorites]
posted by platinum at 11:41 PM on November 15, 2024 [4 favorites]
Mjolk is one of my favorite places to shop for gorgeous, expensive home goods.
posted by sagc at 5:30 AM on November 16, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by sagc at 5:30 AM on November 16, 2024 [1 favorite]
Seconding the MOMA Design Store and Uncommon Goods.
The online stores for other museums and historical societies can be a fun kind of rabbit hole to go down, including ones in Canada. A number of the big ones will do international shipping. Art Gallery of Ontario as a random example for Canada. Neue Galerie New York. Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art. etc., etc..
Some niche stuff I look at includes Rifle Paper Company, which has a lot more than paper and ships to Canada. Also Felix Doolittle (mostly paper, but not exclusively, and they ship worldwide.)
Niche food and goods interests are also something to check out, for example Scandinavian stuff from Ingebretsen's. Spanish Food and stuff from La Tienda (they ship to Canada). King Arthur Flour for baking stuff (they do ship outside the US, and some of their stuff is also on amazon.ca). Penzeys for spices (they even have a spices advent calendar this year). Just some thoughts.
posted by gudrun at 10:40 AM on November 16, 2024
The online stores for other museums and historical societies can be a fun kind of rabbit hole to go down, including ones in Canada. A number of the big ones will do international shipping. Art Gallery of Ontario as a random example for Canada. Neue Galerie New York. Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art. etc., etc..
Some niche stuff I look at includes Rifle Paper Company, which has a lot more than paper and ships to Canada. Also Felix Doolittle (mostly paper, but not exclusively, and they ship worldwide.)
Niche food and goods interests are also something to check out, for example Scandinavian stuff from Ingebretsen's. Spanish Food and stuff from La Tienda (they ship to Canada). King Arthur Flour for baking stuff (they do ship outside the US, and some of their stuff is also on amazon.ca). Penzeys for spices (they even have a spices advent calendar this year). Just some thoughts.
posted by gudrun at 10:40 AM on November 16, 2024
This is the section of the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog that contains items for rich people who have no self-control.
posted by SandiBeech at 4:12 PM on November 16, 2024
posted by SandiBeech at 4:12 PM on November 16, 2024
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posted by mismatched at 9:05 PM on November 15, 2024 [1 favorite]