W Magazine
Down East
August 2002

W HOME FLASH
DOWN EAST

By Staff | August 2002

New York’s Lower East Side isn’t the first place you’d think to look for high-end antiques. But that’s where Todd Merrill, Christie’s former director of public relations, has chosen to set up shop, just down the street from Katz’s Delicatessen. “When I was five years old,” says Merrill, whose grandfather cofounded the furniture chain Ethan Allen, “I could tell the difference between Queen Anne and Chippendale.” Today, his merchandise runs the gamut from 19th-century French Empire to 1970s Karl Springer. What ties the pieces together is what Merrill calls “the classical and modern lines flowing through all of them.” Todd Merrill Antiques, 100 Stanton Street, New York, 212.673.0531, www.merrillantiques.com.