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Atlantis, Red Hook’s second-largest furniture retailer, will be closing the retail half of their business on Sunday, September 27. Before everyone gets up in arms about Red Hook’s largest furniture retailer putting Atlantis out of business, let it be known that Beatrice, Atlantis’ owner, is only closing her retail outlet to focus on the upholstery and decorating side of things. Her new workshop will be located just around the way, at Screwball Studios (188 Lorraine St).

Beatrice will be “lightening her load” for the remainder of this week, with a closing sale. Lighting, art, and mirrors are 50 percent off, and all furniture is 20 percent off. In case your apartment is in desperate need of vintage mongolian lamb stools to go with your zebra print bar, you’re in luck!

The sale only runs from 11 to 7, Thursday through Sunday, when Atlantis will shut its doors for good. Atlantis, 351 Van Brunt St., 718-858-8816.

The big sale at The Future Perfect was actually pretty manageable when I got there a little after noon on Friday. Expecting long lines and pushy crowds, I was pleasantly surprised by the slow trickle of bargain hunters trailing down to the basement of the Williamsburg shop. What I found in there were a few gems in a small selection of modern wares. The very pleasant and helpful salesperson said the best deals were on the Italian designers because they rarely if ever went on sale. Most items were in good condition with a few bumps and bruises, but prices were easily in the hundreds of dollars—the $5 merch advertised in the sale email was tough to find. The closest we could find were Normann, Copenhagen’s very cool and collapsible funnel ($10) and colander ($25), pictured here, both by designer Boje Estermann in green, yellow, and red. Other highlights included: Read the rest of this entry »

The Future Perfect. Photo by Dave Pinter.

Here’s an email from yesterday’s inbox that stood out like an (orbit) light amid the daily dreck: The Future Perfect, the at times overly clever, but always impeccably-curated design store in Williamsburg is having a WAREHOUSE SALE! For the first time ever, the snobatorium is taking 20 to 90 percent off slightly injured pieces from Moroso, Vitra, Droog, Kartell, Alessi and more. (If these names mean nothing to you, consider yourself lucky!) We quoteth the email: “The Future Perfect has been open over six years and this is the first time we’ve cleaned up and cleared out the warehouse of all of those amazing pieces that just weren’t 100% perfect. The deals are huge. Prices start at $5. This sale is in our Brooklyn location only. All sale items are FINAL SALE.” Bring your elbows (but not your kids’ elbows) to fend off the army of deposed Domino staffers, local furniture makers and budget-Brooklyn web site editors.

Last winter's sale. Photo by Katya Wachtel.

Warning: this post isn’t for everyone. But if you’re a designer-label obsessive and you still have disposable income (congrats!), get to bed early tonight. Tomorrow, starting at 8 a.m., is the first day of the biannual Barneys Warehouse Sale, which is the retail scrum of the year for bargain-loving fashionites, with clothing, shoes, accessories and housewares marked 50 to 75 percent off.

Bargains being a relative term, of course. Last year, on a magazine mission to find Christian Louboutins at the sale, I scouted a pair of red patent ankle-strap stilettos for $310 (originally $780), white patent wedges for $260 ($625), and camel slingbacks for $230 ($625). And so on. There were also loads of Miu Miu, Prada, Lanvin and YSL shoes, also for less than half the original prices. Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t let your coffee table be boring: PowerHouse Arena, the arty DUMBO publishing house, is having its annual summer overstock sale on titles by and about Bettina Rheims, John Coplans, Ricky Powell, Jeff Mermelstein, Larry Fink, André Leon Talley, Nigel Parry, Barack Obama, Brooklyn Bikers, Madonna and more. Books are going for as little as $3 (as much as $25, but plenty in between, which means 50-90 percent off cover prices). The Arena itself is worth the trip—a loft-like venue for performances, exhibitions, and other brainy gatherings. Sale runs through August 30. PowerHouse Arena, 37 Main St., DUMBO, Weekdays 10-7, weekends 11-7, (718) 666-3049.

The Gap probably doesn’t need free advertising from tiny little us, but we thought you might want to know that they’re having a $19.99 deal on jeans until Thursday, in stores only. We called the three Brooklyn outposts to see what was on sale and each has a variety of styles at that price, which normally go for $49.50 to $69.50. Two questions: What’s wrong with a Gap in say, Atlantic Center Mall? And what happened to the one on Montague Street?

Marine Park/Mill Basin Gap, 5100 Kings Plaza, 718-253-1125; Bay Ridge Gap, 423 86th St., 718-833-6621; Bensonhurst Gap, 2101 86th St., 718-372-3170.