hasker: always good design, always affordable

March 2nd, 2009 | brooklyn, shops

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before we lived in brooklyn and i knew anything about smith street, for some reason j, infant k and i had about an hour to kill before needing to venture back to the upper east side. trudging along carroll garden’s main shopping drag, hoping to make headway on my christmas shopping list, i was thrilled to discover so many great shops — many of which i return to year after year because they offer so many interesting, unique and affordable items.

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one of my best finds was hasker, a design and home store with a focus on scandinavian goods. as is true of most of my favorite shops, they don’t carry a lot but what they do carry is excellent. hasker tends to focus on home goods for the table such as ostindia dinnerware and boda nova carafes, while also carrying an interesting selection of mid-century like lamps and more modern furniture from blue dot and others.

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they have a bunch of smaller fun gift items like a rosewood tape measure, lots of soaps and some book treasures too. they also display a few reasonably-priced works from new york artists, and when i visited recently i fell in love with jim maio’s work of richly colored brooklyn cityscapes. while not in our budget right now, i am planning to finally complete our very bare living room walls with one of his paintings in the next year and for that i have hasker to thank. hasker, 333 smith street between carroll and president streets, brooklyn, new york, .

update: sadly, hasker has closed, and there is now a fun branch of environment 337 in its place.

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