You mentioned Pottery Barn so I figure that's somewhere in North America. After a childhood in the Appalachian zone, I was dismayed at any furniture I found fo

You mentioned Pottery Barn so I figure that's somewhere in North America. After a childhood in the Appalachian zone, I was dismayed at any furniture I found for sale at retail in California. Usually hopelessly expensive or very poor quality, sometimes both. I never truly sorted out that situation, so there are sure to be a bunch of places that have such. But I don't know. The way I solved this for myself was to simply go to the mountains of north Georgia, eastern Tennessee, west Carolinas. Stuff at garage sales (now Craigslist, I suppose) would be better than any chance encounter I found in CA. And the furniture stores had high quality, mid high prices, but not as impossible as the stuff in showrooms in the Left Coast. I've encountered random fantastic furniture at an import warehouse, or at estate sales, west of the Pecos River. But no systematic trend there.