Shop Hut J
This DJ table from Winnipeg designer Craig Alun Smith features a charging bull logo up front and a cheeky reference to bullish virility along the underside, hidden from view. The slots cut into the tabletop can hold records (remember those things?), but as more and more DJs go digital, Smith envisions the empty spaces serving as evocative reminders of vinyl culture. Perfect for your basement rec room, where you can show the young whippersnappers that you’re still with it.—Alison Gilmor

Shop This Old House Revival Co.
The Old House Revival Company has long been the place to come if you need a stained-glass window, a church pew or a stray Doric column. But manager Valerie Friesen acknowledges that the definition of “old house” is shifting. These days, customers are also snapping up non-standard-size heating vents for mid-century houses, groovy ’60s globe lights and over-the-top ’70s bronze-tone cabinet hardware. In response to this, OHRC has just opened the rest of its building to a multi-vendor antique mall which, on a recent visit, offered up a bounty of mid-century modern gems such as an orange vinyl Mod daybed. —Alison Gilmor

Shop Hooper's
Under his label Dumb Chauffeur, local designer Roy Liang has created a line of pillows featuring offbeat images of Manitoba icons, from the Gimli Viking to Louis Riel. (Now that the revolutionary Metis leader has his own provincial holiday, he’s poised to become a cold-weather Che.) As befitting the frontiersman Riel, the pillows are covered in tough-looking cotton fabric but are soft on the inside with down filling. We can’t wait for the Gabriel DuMont bath towels.—Alison Gilmor