A Little Bit Of Everything

When a store like Bodega Shoppe comes to town, it’s time to shut down, let go of the mouse and forget about shopping online for a while. Instead, get out on the street — 15 Mechanic Street, that is — and make a discovery or two.

Tucked away in the heart of downtown is a small interior-design and gift/lifestyle boutique called Bodega Shoppe. Named after the NYC markets that sell a little bit of everything, Bodega Shoppe does just that. Inspired shoppers can find inter-continental goods from London, Paris and the USA — a blend of new items with vintage finds from across the globe.

Interior designer and owner Mike Buess aims to inspire his customers by exposing them to items hard to find elsewhere. He describes his signature style as a blend of “crisp and clean old Hollywood glamour mixed with contemporary and a bit of Marie Antoinette decadence added in.”

Bodega Shoppe offers the fragrances and skincare products of Fragonard — a staple in France for the past 80 years that made its U.S. debut in 2007 — and CIR depuis 1643 candles, the oldest candle company in Europe and candle maker to King Louis XV. The store is the exclusive U.S. retailer of the stationery line by Australian Vogue’s discovery, designer Lucy Jane Batchelor, as well as lines native to the U.S., such as Scents by Alexis. There are items by new and local designers and artists, too. You will find hand-blended oils in gilded bottles of copper, silver and 24-karat gold only sold at a limited number of exclusive boutiques around the globe, such as Henri Bendel, and, now, Bodega Shoppe, Mechanic Street, Red Bank.

Mike Buess, a graduate of Parsons The New School For Design, has been a fashion stylist, the head of the children’s division of Wilhelmina Model Management, and the Director Of Public Relations at the Renowned Antique Jewelry House, Doyle & Doyle, in Manhattan.

BODEGA SHOPPE 15 Mechanic Street• 732.741.1810