Perez Road in Cathedral City is not the kind of place a shopper stumbles into by accident; visitors typically arrive already knowing they are headed for the desert’s most concentrated stretch of art and design storefronts, and Hedge is one of the anchor businesses that helped build that reputation. Owned and curated by Charles Pearson and Thomas Sharkey, the shop occupies Suite F at 68-929 Perez Road, in the heart of the Perez Road Art and Design District just outside Palm Springs. Pearson and Sharkey opened their doors here around 2005, and by the shop’s own telling, roughly fourteen years in, they had become fixtures of the district rather than newcomers to it, a tenure that now stretches past two decades in the same small commercial strip.
Inside, Hedge deals in vintage and mid-century modern furniture, lighting, and decorative arts, with an inventory that leans toward pieces the owners describe as unusual, dynamic, and unpredictable rather than safe or predictable reproductions. Past selections have included dining suites, sculptural seating, case pieces, and lamps tied to recognized mid-century names such as Paul Evans, the Eames office, and the wrought-iron specialist Salterini, alongside decorative sculpture and one-off design objects that rotate through the small gallery-style floor. The shop describes itself not simply as a furniture store but as a store, a gallery, and an experience, a description that fits the way the space is arranged, with pieces staged more like an exhibit than a warehouse aisle, and a bohemian sensibility that runs through the buying as much as the display.
Hedge keeps a tighter schedule than a typical retail storefront, open Friday through Sunday from noon to 4 p.m., a rhythm that mirrors much of the surrounding Perez Road district and rewards visitors who plan a weekend desert trip around it rather than a weekday errand. The district itself hosts a Second Saturday gallery walk from October through May, when Hedge and its neighboring showrooms open together for an evening crowd, giving shoppers a chance to see the full range of dealers clustered along the same short stretch of road. Reviewers who have made the trip consistently point to the owners themselves as much as the inventory, describing Pearson and Sharkey as knowledgeable, hands-on, and quick to talk through the history or condition of a given piece rather than leaving customers to guess.
That reputation shows up in the numbers as well: Hedge has built a five-star rating across dozens of Yelp reviews, an unusually consistent score for a vintage furniture dealer where taste and condition can vary piece to piece. The shop also keeps an active Instagram presence, using it to post new arrivals as they come in, since the changing, one-of-a-kind nature of vintage sourcing means the floor looks different from one visit to the next. For collectors chasing a specific designer name and casual browsers just looking for something with more character than a big-box showroom offers, that unpredictability is the point rather than a drawback.
Hedge in Cathedral City is a two-decade-old, owner-curated vintage and mid-century modern furniture and design gallery on Perez Road, open Friday through Sunday, where Charles Pearson and Thomas Sharkey stock an ever-changing selection of unusual, gallery-quality pieces for collectors and design-minded shoppers across the Palm Springs area.
