The Store is the retail arm of Violante and Rochford Interiors, a longtime Santa Fe interior design firm that opened the shop in 2018 inside a 1902 Craftsman-style home in downtown Santa Fe. Rather than building a standalone showroom from scratch, the design team turned the historic house itself into the display, with room after room of the century-old building doing double duty as both the setting and the backdrop for the merchandise, an approach that gives the shop a lived-in, residential feel that a typical retail floor plan cannot easily replicate.
Inventory blends genuine antiques sourced from around the world with artisan-made, one-of-a-kind pieces, so a single room might mix an antique European mirror or console table with hand-blown glass brought in from Paris, contemporary bronze sculptures, pewter trays, ceramics, decorative pillows, candles, and candleholders. Prices span a wide range to match that mix, from small accessories in the range of 18 dollars up to statement antiques near 1,500 dollars, which lets browsers window-shop for a candle or invest in a significant furniture piece during the same visit. The design firm’s eye for pairing old and new runs through the merchandising, since the same team that helps clients furnish full homes also selects and arranges what ends up on the sales floor.
The Store keeps regular weekday hours, open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with Saturday visits available by appointment for shoppers who cannot make it during the week. Being housed in a preserved 1902 home in downtown Santa Fe places the shop within walking distance of the city’s plaza and its dense concentration of galleries and design showrooms, a natural fit given Santa Fe’s national reputation as a hub for art, antiques, and interior design. Visitors touring the downtown gallery district often treat a stop here as a chance to see antiques displayed the way a professional designer would actually use them in a home, rather than lined up on generic shelving.
One detail that sets this shop apart from a typical antiques dealer is that it operates as an extension of an active design practice rather than as a pure retail business. Because Violante and Rochford Interiors continues to work directly with residential clients, the pieces on The Store’s floor are chosen with an eye toward how they would function in a real, finished room, and the shop has more recently begun offering free shipping on most items, extending that curated selection to buyers well beyond Santa Fe who cannot visit the historic house in person. The result is a shopping experience shaped as much by professional design sensibility as by the antiques trade itself.
For anyone researching Santa Fe antique and home decor shops, The Store stands out as a design-firm-run showroom inside a genuine 1902 Craftsman home downtown, where global antiques sit alongside artisan-made glass, bronze, and ceramic pieces chosen by working interior designers. The Store by Violante and Rochford Interiors is a Santa Fe antiques and home decor showroom set inside a historic 1902 house, open weekdays and by Saturday appointment, offering globally sourced antiques and artisan goods curated by a working design firm.
