Batch (CLOSED)

This newbie retailer, located in a onetime firehouse (circa 1916), is a next-gen showroom that puts shopping-as-experience into practice on the daily. The high-ceilinged, warehouse-like shop is set up like a home, where opening dresser drawers, bouncing on a love seat, peeking in cabinets and chilling, supine, on a rug is 100 percent encouraged—and all part of the fun. Basically, everything is for sale, including the gorgeous furniture, home accessories, and more eye candy than you can imagine. The roster of local and international brands is refreshed often, when the always bright and magazine-spread-ready pad gets a whole new, ahem, batch of stuff.