Gold Winner and Hall of Fame inductee Attica Furnishings Silver Winner Wheaton’s, Sackville Bronze Winner Project 9 Editor’s note: With its 2017 Best Furniture Store win marking at least 10 golds in a row, Attica joins the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. Suzanne Saul has a manifesto for Attica, the furniture store she started […]
Attica Furnishings
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Best Home Decor Store
Gold Winner Attica Furnishings Silver Winner The Independent Mercantile Co. Bronze Winner Kept The relationship between home decor and furniture is the same as between clothing and accessories. “It’s like when you add jewellery to an outfit,” says Attica Furnishings co-founder Suzanne Saul. “Pillows, lamps, rugs—they really make a space shine.” Winning gold in Best […]
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Best Home Decor Store
Gold Winner Attica Furnishings Silver Winner Kept Bronze Winner Homesense, Bayers Lake It’s exciting times for the perpetually winning Attica Furnishings—not only another slam-dunk for Best Furniture and Best Home Decor, but a big move across town from its multi-tiered Barrington Street abode to a flatter flat at Robie and Young. “Four floors was fun […]
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Best Furniture Store
Gold Winner Attica Furnishings Silver Winner Kew, Halifax Bronze Winner Leon’s Furniture It’s exciting times for the perpetually winning Attica Furnishings—not only another slam-dunk for Best Furniture and Best Home Decor, but a big move across town from its multi-tiered Barrington Street abode to a flatter flat at Robie and Young. “Four floors was fun […]
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Attica moves to Robie Street
After 10 years on Barrington Street, Attica Furnishings (1566 Barrington Street) is headed north. The 21-year-old contemporary furniture store—which actually got its start in the north end, on Gottingen Street—announced that as of late October it’ll move into the brand new, 8,000 square foot, ground floor space in the mixed-use Point North building at 3065 […]
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Best Furniture Store
Gold Winner Attica Furnishings Silver Winner Geddes Furniture Bronze Winner Statement Attica Furnishings inhabits a unique niche in Halifax, as exemplified by its two gold wins in this year’s Best of. On one hand, this local independent shop owned by Suzanne Saul and Christopher Joyce outdoes the big-box chains when it comes to big-ticket items […]
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Best Home Decor
Gold Winner Attica Furnishings Silver Winner Kept Bronze Winner The Independent Mercantile Co. “We started our store because Chris makes furniture,” Attica co-owner/co-founder Suzanne Saul says of her partner, Christopher Joyce. That was 20-odd years ago, and since then Attica has grown from a one-room furniture workshop and showroom (see also Best Furniture store) to […]
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Attica is 20 years young
This weekend marks two decades in business for downtown’s furniture and lifestyle mainstay Attica Furnishings (1566 Barrington Street), which NSCAD grads Suzanne Saul and Christopher Joyce opened to Halifax shoppers in ’95. The now four-storey home style store has seen a lot of changes—not just on Barrington Street but in the way people shop—and despite […]
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Best Home Decor Store
Gold Winner Attica Furnishings Silver Winner Kept Bronze Winner Bellissimo Minimalism is in, but no one wants to take it so far that they’re sitting on a single chair in the middle of an empty room. Attica, thankfully, offers many alternatives to that. (Though, if you insist on that single-chair style, at least they can […]
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Best Furniture Store
Gold Winner Attica Furnishings Silver Winner Statement Bronze Winner Abode Minimalism is in, but no one wants to take it so far that they’re sitting on a single chair in the middle of an empty room. Attica, thankfully, offers many alternatives to that. (Though, if you insist on that single-chair style, at least they can […]
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ShopTalk presents: 25 Things To Do Downtown
1. Remember that the waterfront isn’t just for tourists But it is a good spot to people-watch said camera-slinging visitors. Walk it, run it, admire it from the ferry, eat take-out from Canadian Bacon Cookhouse or The Shack (Queen’s Wharf), check out Historic Properties (1869 Upper Water Street), rent wheels from I Heart Bikes (Sands […]
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Best Furniture Store
Gold Winner Attica Furnishings Silver Winner The Brick Bronze Winner Statement Oh, Attica! How can we not love this place? Its inventory of gorgeous lamps, rugs and accessories for your home will have you wanting everything in store…or just wanting to live in the store itself. And who could blame you? Attica’s been bringing you […]