Addison House

Addison House is the kind of furniture showroom people in Aventura tend to describe by pointing rather than by street address, since the NE 187th Street location has been a fixture for design minded shoppers looking for something other than what shows up at the big box furniture chains along Biscayne Boulevard. The company specializes in contemporary Italian and Brazilian furnishings, lighting, and accessories, and it represents a roster of European design houses including Giorgetti, Shake, and Emmemobili, brands that most shoppers will not find carried anywhere else in South Florida. With more than four decades of experience behind it, the business has built the kind of supplier relationships and design know how that come only from staying in one specialty for a long time.

What makes Addison House worth a special trip rather than a passing browse is the personalized service model built around it. This is not a warehouse style furniture outlet where you wander aisles alone. The showroom offers design consultation for residential clients furnishing a full home or a single room, along with a formal trade program for interior designers and architects who need access to contract grade pieces. In recent years the company has leaned further into commercial and hospitality work as well, supplying furniture, fixtures, and equipment for hotel and food and beverage projects in addition to its original residential focus, which speaks to how the business has grown without losing its Aventura anchor location.

Addison House operates two other South Florida showrooms, in the Miami Design District and in Doral, but the Aventura location on NE 187th Street remains part of the original footprint and is convenient for residents who do not want to cross the county for a design consultation. Because the merchandise here runs toward luxury pricing, this is not a stop for someone furnishing a first apartment on a tight budget, but for anyone renovating a home in one of Aventura’s high rise towers or single family neighborhoods and looking for pieces with a distinct European sensibility rather than what everyone else on the block already owns, it is a logical place to start. The staff’s ability to walk a client through fabric, wood finish, and scale options in person is the kind of service that is genuinely harder to find as more furniture shopping moves online.

Given the price point and the custom nature of much of what is sold, this is a showroom best visited with a project in mind rather than for casual weekend browsing, and calling ahead to confirm current hours and availability of a design consultant is a reasonable step before making a special trip. For Aventura homeowners and the design professionals who work with them, though, Addison House has remained one of the more consistent independent sources for high end contemporary furniture in the area for a very long stretch of time.