1. Spotted On 2Nd Gallery
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 272-2220
Address: 200 N.E. Second Ave.
Description: This is a colorful craft arts gallery highlighting American crafts and American craftspeople. It carries the work of over a hundred talented American artists in a variety of media. The selection includes jewelry, ceramics, glass, metal, wood, and original and limited-edition prints.
2. Gallery Via Veneto
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 835-1399
Address: 250 Worth Ave.
Description: This is a special place, a special gallery, on a special street. Galleries on Worth Avenue must have distinctive collections or else they won’t be galleries on Worth Avenue for long. The specialties in this one are bronze sculptures and paintings.
3. Gasiunasen Gallery
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 820-8920
Address: 415 Hibiscus Ave.
Description: The gallery offers artworks from some of the most famous artists in history, among them Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Henri Matisse. Gasiunasen Gallery is also one of the few galleries in Palm Beach that carries the works of Fernando Botero, the popular Latin American artist known for his whimsical rotund figures.
4. Holden Luntz Gallery
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 805-9550
Address: 256 Worth Ave.
Description: The art of photography is the specialty here. Holden Luntz Gallery exhibits a broad range of vintage and contemporary American and European photographers, all of whom have left a definitive stamp on the development of this medium.
5. Liman Studios—Palm Beach
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 659-7050
Address: 139 North County Rd.
Description: This is art of the current times, and of the future. There are fascinating, multi-faceted, multimedia exhibits that change with the seasons.
6. Surovek Print Gallery
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 655-2665
Description: The John H. Surovek gallery specializes in American paintings, drawings, watercolors, and prints of the 19th and 20th centuries, in everything from portraits to landscapes to villages to seaports.
7. Wally Findlay Galleries
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 655-2090
Address: 165 Worth Ave.
Description: Wally Findlay Galleries is a fixture on Worth Avenue, and no art buyer or collector worth his salt would even consider not stopping here. It’s considered one of the foremost authorities on the French School of Rouen. In addition, while specializing in French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masters, the gallery also exclusively represents a group of distinguished contemporary artists, both European and American.
8. Art Gallery
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 207-5015
Description: North Palm Beach County arts lovers have been streaming for years to the Palm Beach Gardens campus of Palm Beach State College. And this gallery is one of the reasons. The art is innovative, multi-faceted, interesting, and unusual.
9. Atlantic Avenue
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Description: A darkened street of derelict businesses (and people) two decades ago, Atlantic was transformed in the 1990s into a fashionable destination-type area, with brick sidewalks, old-fashioned street lamps, and very new-fashioned galleries, restaurants, and clubs. The shops are a funky collection of the cool and the unusual. Some have actually been around since the derelict days, but have survived because of the quality of what they sell, and because local residents didn’t want to let them go.
10. Mizner Park
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 362-0606
Description: Born in the mid-1990s, Mizner Park brought the “downtown” back into Downtown Boca. It’s a multifaceted urban center with beautiful shops and restaurants, and upscale high-rise apartment and condos overlooking it all. You’ll find very unusual men’s and women’s clothing boutiques such as Bolufe, specialty shops such as Spice and Tea Exchange, interesting bar/eateries such as The Dubliner Irish Pub, jewelers such as Van Cleef & Arpels, cultural options like The Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park, entertainment options including a cinema, and dining possibilities such as Ruth’s Chris Steak House and a Boca landmark called Max’s Grille.
11. Royal Palm Place
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 392-8920
Description: Royal Palm Place was Boca’s original downtown upscale shopping and dining center, which has undergone a renovation in recent years that has restored it to its original glory. It was referred to for many years as “The Pink Plaza,” for the Addison Mizner-type tropical-pink color that it still wears. There are many one-of-a-kind boutiques, salons, and services here, among them the Yaacov Heller Gallery, with an artist who has crafted custom jewelry for a Who’s Who of the international set; the ultra-chic Gianni’s Hair Salo; and Exor Galleries, a treasure-trove of distinctive art works. And there are some wonderful international eateries here, many of which offer outside dining.
12. The Shops At Boca Center
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 361-9804
Description: This is a place of quiet elegance, a place that doesn’t have to shout out loud how wonderful it is because its customers do it. It’s a collection of fine specialty and apparel shops, jewelry and one-of-a-kind gift shops, gourmet food and chocolate shops, and some of the coolest restaurants in town. It’s an outdoor plaza; all shops have front doors opening to the outside. You can pick up a special wine or gourmet food at Joseph’s Classic Market, while you’re savoring something from Hoffman’s Chocolates. Or, you may want to pick out a suit from Guy LaFerrera or Jos. A. Bank, and then enhance the day by treating yourself to one of Morton’s the Steakhouse’s thickest, juiciest cuts of beef. Perhaps you’ll want to pamper yourself at Spalano Salon and Spa.
13. Town Center Shops
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 368-6000
Description: This is where Boca comes to shop for variety and quality. There are nearly 200 upscale shops here, ranging from the tiny Swarovski shop to anchor department stores like Bloomingdale’s, Nordstom, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Macy’s. You’ll also find excellent specialty shops offering apparel, jewelry, gifts, and housewares, along with household names like Ralph Lauren Polo, American Eagle, and Banana Republic. There are also dozens of kiosks with items you probably haven’t thought much about before, but which you just gotta have now. The mall is covered by a “soft” roof which allows sunlight in. It’s always filled with discriminating shoppers. And you’re bound to see a celebrity or two if you look carefully enough.
14. City Place
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 820-0074
Description: City Place was built in the mid-1990s to resemble an Italian town center. But its net effect was to transform downtown West Palm Beach into the glittering urban core it was always meant to be. You’ll walk among atmospheric sidewalk cafes, interesting stores like Williams–Sonoma (exclusive kitchen and housewares), Restoration Hardware (with imaginative items for the home), Macy’s, Barnes & Noble, an IMAX theater, and swank nightclubs. And, just like the Italian plazas it was meant to resemble, the central plaza here is filled with fine shops (including a gelato shop, speaking of Italian), street performers, and people strolling with bags of chocolate and taking it all in.
15. Clematis Street
City: Palm Beach, FL
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (561) 833-8873
Description: Clematis Street was the original heart of West Palm Beach. But, like so many other Main Streets in urban America, it fell into disrepair (and disrepute) toward the end of the 20th-century. However, the city’s Downtown Development Authority came to the rescue. Today, Clematis Street is better than ever, a gleaming testament to what an urban Main Street should be. It’s a 24/7 hot-spot, crowded during the daytime with professionals and businesspeople, and at night with a fashionable crowd eager to try out each new restaurant and nightspot. For shopping there’s Bright Idea Design Studio, Uomo Fashion, Green Olive Market Place, Authentic Provence, Eaton Fine Art, Atmosphere, Michael’s Jewelers, Richard Plumer Design, and many more.