Avenue Road Opens Manhattan Showroom - Currents Avenue Road, the Toronto-based furniture company, recently opened a 5,000-square-foot showroom in Manhattan - an informal space designed to feel more "like entering someone's beautiful apartment," said Stephan Weishaupt, the president, than a stiff showroom. The store carries an eclectic mix of modern furniture, including clean-lined pieces by the French designer Christophe Delcourt (the IWI oak armchairs, left, are $3,815 each), the Dutch designers Marcel Wolterinck and Marlieke Van Rossum and the German ceramist Lutz Könecke (the vases, above, are $1,368 each). It also makes its own line of furniture, Avenue Road Editions, which features work by Yabu Pushelberg, Jacques Guillon and Moss & Lam. Avenue Road, 145 West 28th Street, fifth floor, (212) 453-9880, avenue-road.com.