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Design afficionados Renata Bokalo and Roman Luba consider Auto, their Meatpacking boutique, to be a bit like a laboratory. They encourage designers to try new things and, in return, they offer up covetable items fellow aficionados won't find anywhere else. Everything from jewelry to baby items and home goods find their place in what originally began as a storefront/showroom. Luba points out that the name Auto popped into their collective design head and stuck. "It's a word no one uses anymore, but yet it's still modern. We interpret it as being of self–doing things for yourself." The store's simple white design functions like a blank shell that can metamorphize from season to season. Bokalo's innate knack for choosing and editing merch is often determined by the couple's attraction to color. "Color doesn't necessarily mean modern or even old," Luba says. "We look for something that evokes warmth." Expect colorful Missoni towels and robes, Jane D'Arensbourg glass jewelry, vintage Vera scarves, and one of their best sellers: a Sleeping Pig sculpture decorated with mysterious symbols.

The Goods: An eclectic selection of merch ranging from Judy Ross pillows to Missoni towels, Jane D'Arensbourg jewelry, and a Sleeping Pig sculpture thought to be good luck.