Pomegranate
Neighborhood: East Village
Type of Place: Gift Shops
Description:
What makes a house (or, in NYC, a 200 square-foot, 6th-floor walk-up studio apartment with a view of a brick wall) a home? Accents that lend comfort, beauty, and a distinctive style to your rooms (or your kitchen/living room/bedroom combo, as the case may be). And a great new place to find them is Pomegranate, which opened on E. 7th Street in September after owner Susie Kerr, a Manhattanite who'd been running the shop in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, decided to ditch her daily commute.
"It's personal," Kerr says of her inventory. "People aren't going to walk into someone else's house and see their items all over." Kerr took care to create an inviting, homey space for her housewares and bath products, with a terra cotta floor in front, a pale green hardwood floor in back, and light gold walls throughout. Items are displayed on furniture pieces rather than traditional store shelves—and that display furniture is itself for sale.
Beckoning from a breakfront is a polkadotted ceramic dish set (pieces sold separately) hand-decorated in England, including a teapot ($78) and creamer ($36) that both Alice and the Mad Hatter would have loved. Hand-blocked, one-of-a-kind pillows in light earth tones start at $100 and, Kerr swears, are easily washable (as the mother of a toddler, she learned this from experience). Hand-crafted photo frames, some displayed with photos of Kerr's family, range from $20–$100; a set of 4 heart-shaped refrigerator magnets in nickel and jewel tones is $8.50. In the bath products, we especially liked a pear-scented (and pear-shaped) soap ($7. 50).
So Susie, why "Pomegranate"? "One thing was, my mom tended to have pomegranates around in the kitchen when I was growing up," Kerr explains. "And then there was the greeting test—'Hello, Pomegranate' sounded like a good way to answer the phone." - Pam Grossman; 03, 2004
Pomegranate
125 East 7th Street
New York, NY 10009
(212) 677-3877
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