1. Brilliant Antiques
City: Clayton, MO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (314) 725-2526
Address: 8107 Maryland Avenue
Description: This popular Clayton antiques shop always has a stock of continental and English accessories on hand, including silver, brass, copper, pottery and porcelain decorative items; fireplace tools; candlesticks; picture frames; dresser jars; and antique boxes. Brilliant Antiques carries Majolica, “Blue and White,” and Staffordshire items, along with an excellent selection of vintage gifts for the hard-to-buy-for folks on your gift list. The shop offers free gift wrap and can ship your purchases just about anywhere. Closed Sunday.
2. Laurie Solet
City: Clayton, MO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (314) 727-7467
Address: 8228 North Forsyth Boulevard
Description: “Hometown girl goes Hollywood then returns to her roots to bring high style and fashion to St. Louis.” That’s basically the story of Laurie Solet, the founder of this fashionista hot spot. Her boutique offers high-quality clothing, beauty products, and accessories that are straight out of the pages of trendsetter mags like InStyle, Lucky, and Vogue. She includes togs from top name designers and up-and-coming design stars in her inventory, and features many lines that may be hard to find here in “fly-over country.” Closed Sunday.
3. Barucci Gallery
City: Clayton, MO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (314) 727-2020
Address: 8101 Maryland Avenue
Description: The Barucci Gallery offers contemporary works by regional and national artists that specialize in sculpture, painting, and art glass. A four-time recipient of the Top 100 Retailer of Craft award from Niche magazine, the lively space features a variety of serigraphs, ceramics, watercolors, acrylics, jewelry, and hand-blown glass art pieces. There’s also an on-site frame shop. Closed Sunday.
4. Kodner Gallery
City: Clayton, MO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (314) 863-9366
Address: 7501 Forsyth Boulevard
Description: This gallery features fine 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculpture by European and American masters, Impressionists, regionalists, and artists of the Old West, including artists such as Thomas H. Benton, Antoine Blanchard, Bernard Buffet, Edouard Cortes, Frederick C. Frieseke, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Frederic Remington, and many more. Closed Sunday.
5. R. Duane Reed Gallery
City: Clayton, MO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (314) 862-2333
Address: 7513 Forsyth Boulevard
Description: This Clayton gallery features an extensive selection of nationally recognized artists specializing in contemporary paintings, works on paper, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and fiber. The facility is known as the exclusive St. Louis location for artists such as Ken Anderson, Jane Barrow, Aaron Karp, Nancy Rice, and Philip Slein, as well as contemporary glass by Dale Chihuly, Pohlman-Knowles, Marvin Lipofsky, and others. Reed also features ceramics by Rudy Autio, Bennett Bean, Chris Federighi, and Patricia Degener, along with fiber artists such as John Garrett, Mary Giles, and John Sauer. Closed Sunday and Monday.
6. Stein Gallery
City: Clayton, MO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (314) 726-6616
Address: 21 North Meramec Avenue
Description: The Stein Gallery specializes in 19th- and 20th-century art, featuring works in all media. The extensive collection of prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photography includes the work of internationally known artists such as Balthus, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Stein’s contemporary works include pieces by names such as Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Serra, Ernest Trova, and Andy Warhol, and fine-art photography by Annie Leibovitz, Arnold Newman, and William Eggleston is also featured. Closed Sunday.