That Hudson Look... No two antiques dealers define their trade in quite the same way. And yet there is a certain Hudson “look” which emerges from the wildly divergent styles and prices around town.

Often, that look arises from sensibilities which see beyond categories and conventions. Few Hudson shops deal strictly in one period or style, preferring to mix high and low, old and new, pristine and distressed... deftly throwing some industrial salvage together with a top quality 18th Century showpiece, topped with a midcentury lamp, alongside a vintage lounge chair, with a Classical bust and Scandinavian textiles rounding out the picture. Such eclecticism is at its best when neither precious or overly self-conscious. Striking a balance between minimalism and clutter is also key to the genius of Hudson’s dealers.

The alphabetical list of HADA members below are all in the antiques business, in one fashion or another. Browsing their pages, you’ll start to see both the diversity and the commonalities among them. Each store name is a link, and the numbers following each name indicate their street address on Warren unless otherwise indicated... Perhaps in scanning their remarkable stores, you'll figure out the right ingredients to replicate that Hudson look.

• 12: modern antiquities (345)
• 20th Century Gallery (556, upstairs)
• 3FortySeven (347)
• A Collector’s Eye (511)
• Ad Lib Antiques (522)
• Antique Underground (711)
• Arenskjold Antiques Art (605)
• Bardon Palomo Home (602)
• Bavier Brook (612)
• Benjamin Wilson Antiques (529)
• Carousel (611)
• CM Cherry (516)
• Colonia (528)
• David Dew Bruner Design (610)
• Doyle Antiques (521)
• Eustace & Zamus Antiques (513)
• Fern (610-1/2)
• Gottlieb Gallery (524)
• Gris (614)
• Henry (348)
• Historical Materialism (601)
• Hudson Supermarket (310)
• Ida’s Eye (611)
• Kendon Antiques (508)
• LKS Art Gallery–Antiques (544)
• Mark McDonald (555)
• Mark’s Antiques & Larry’s Back Room (612)
• Naga North (536)
• Neven and Neven Moderne (618)
• Noonan Antiques (551)
• Red Chair (606)
• Regan & Smith Antiques (602)
• Relics (529)
• Rural Residence (316)
• Skalar Modern (438-1/2)
• Stair Galleries (549)
• Sutter Antiques (556, downstairs)
• Theron Ware (548)
• TK Home and Garden (441)
• Vincent Mulford (419)
• Warren Street Antiques (322)
• White Whale Limited (434)

 

Many credit Hudson’s antiques stores with “saving” Hudson’s main street. And indeed, those who remember the largely boarded-up Warren Street of late ’70s and early ’80s (before the first wave of shops opened) can’t help but agree. What began as a small nucleus of shops grew, store by store, over the last two decades of the 20th Century—into the diverse and sophisticated antiques destination which is known all over the world.