i was browsing in some of the stores on atlantic ave. on wednesday. i loved the store darr (photos on the website make it look a lot more cluttered than it is)- it had a really beautiful mix of items: furniture, books, strange taxidermy, all really well placed and sophisticated (very unlike my decorating style). i also went into butter, which has a nice selection of jewelry and little marni purses with bakelite clasps that i l-o-v-e-d… but they were so snooty to me. terrible!

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  1. yeah. the girls are butter aren’t very nice. it’s definitely not you. i wish i could conduct some sort of experiment and staff their shop with nice people for a week to see if sales would go up.

    anyway, hi! i came across your site randomly and adore it very much.

  2. ooh! so awful that they were snobby to you, too! i stopped by a few weeks ago and felt so, so judged when i walked in. like, she’s wearing flip flops, i don’t think she’s buying anyting here.
    ugh.

    but isn’t darr the best?

    grace 🙂

  3. Don’t they know who you are!!!! ;)uhh!

    Yes, I hate snobby assistants too..such fun when you can buy something expensive and prove them wrong…hehe 🙂

  4. yeah, sometimes i’m tempted to buy something just to prove a salesperson wrong too… but this time i just wanted to get out of there! one of the women followed behind me as i looked at the clothes and fixed the hangers so they were all equally spaced again! which made me feel like all i was doing was messing up the shop!

  5. i love darr! this is my favorite place to buy housewares in brooklyn…so weird that you posted about it…i was planning a post about it for this sunday. its such a great place.

  6. oh yes….butter isn’t the nicest place to go personality-wise. i think it’s cause they are a “favorite” of the lucky editors..maybe it has gone to their heads…it’s too bad b/c the attitude makes all the difference.

  7. oh lena you are making me horribly homesick! before moving to ecuador i lived on state and nevins around the corner from butter. they snubbed me at their little stand at the atlantic antic a few summers ago. i couldn’t believe the attitude at a street fair! and i never understood how showing attitude to potential customers could work in a store’s benefit? i am very excited to do some brooklyn shopping when i’m home this summer…

  8. It’s amazing to me that Butter manages to stay open with that amount of attitude–what kind of people feel good shopping there? Great stuff but those girls straight out of a Saturday Night Live skit.

  9. yuk those assistants sound *horrible* – it makes me so angry when people in shops are like that – i mean, not wishing to be snobby myself but they are after all ‘working in a shop’ – (which of course there is absolutely nothing wrong with!) and presumably not earning much more than most of the people who shop there! and isn’t the whole idea to actually *sell* things instead of just making people feel bad? grrrrrrr!

    i once got ‘the treatment’ in Chanel in London and did that ‘well i must buy something to prove myself’ thing. but because it was Chanel all i could afford was a lipstick and because i was very young and stupid at the time i went for it – i can still feel their disdain for me as i walked up to the counter with my measly purchase. uuug – i hate how things like that stay with you for years.

    anyway! the other shop sounds nice 🙂

  10. I have two trips planned to NYC in May – one work and one pleasure. I’m going to find the time to check out Brooklyn.