In 2013, this New York boutique opened at the intersection of Lower East Side and Chinatown — a place founders Helena Barquet and Fabiana Faria felt captured their approach to design: creative, emerging and authentic. Many of Coming Soon’s relationships with the designers they carry begin with studio visits, making for a collaborative and personal approach when it comes to their selection of quirky homewares and gifts.

Ceramics studio Group Partner has managed to create the “it item” of flowerpots. For real. Those boob pots you’ve likely noticed at the coolest of lifestyle boutiques and in the hippest of homes? Group Partner is the culprit. Founded in 2012 by Isaac Nicholas and Steph Smith, the company has grown to a small team working out of a studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with no signs of slowing down.