Georgia Tapert Living Caters to New Yorkers Seeking the Unique

Finds at Georgia Tapert Living include Bob Mackie's wardrobe sketches for Judy Garland and a painted screen by Dorothy Draper.

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Georgia Tapert Living, a home-furnishings boutique in New York's SoHo, nods to the past and muses on the present. Tapert is a young interior designer whose previous work, for firms such as David Easton and Haynes-Roberts, has clearly helped sharpen her sense for objets worthy of the space.

Within the 700-square-foot store you'll find Corian-and-bamboo serving trays ($375–$495) next to gently used 1960s highball glasses featuring colorful sea horses (six for $165). Judy Garland fans will appreciate Bob Mackie's wardrobe sketches for the singer's 1963–64 television show (from $3,400 apiece).

Those who crave decor with a backstory will gush over the pair of painted screens by Dorothy Draper ($9,800 for the two) that were used to disguise the blast door to the underground bunker at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. (The bunker, incidentally, is where Congress was intended — back in the Cold War era — to flee to in the event of a nuclear attack.)

Other highlights include the hard-to-find-elsewhere Oscar de la Renta for Lunt line of serving trays, picture frames and salad bowls, and original portraits of Edward Albee and Alfred Hitchcock by photographer Jill Krementz. 456 Broome Street; 212-334-7969; georgiatapertliving.com.