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Nood - CLOSED
Categories: Shopping Home & Garden Furniture Stores Shopping Home & Garden Home Decor Furniture Stores, Home Decor [Edit]
820 11th Avenue SWCalgary, AB T2R 0E5
(403) 233-9022
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
7 reviews for Nood
7 reviews in English
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Review from Jo-Ann S.
1/2/2012 1 photo
Funky modern furniture, unique stylish home accessories and frequent sales! I love Nood!
Our main reason for going was the furniture. We were looking for a couch that was modern but not stiff and Nood had exactly what we wanted. After having the couch for a few months, we still love it. Also purchased were a vibrant purple shag rug and a glass owl vase. All these items are proving to be durable and I found the owl vase at a more common store for almost double the price!
Check out Nood! -
Review from Wendy P.
11/23/2010
My first venture into Nood was last year when they were doing a 50% off everything in the store sale just before Christmas. That's right, all it takes to get me in the Nood is a big red sign with the word 'sale.'
What you'll find inside is a funky furniture and housewares kind of a store. Kitchen gadgets, picture frames, and contemporary furniture, its an enjoyable place to poke around.
If you're like Alix Laura W and find the items out of your price range, keep an eye out for that 50% sale sign. I'm told this sale happens twice a year.Listed in: That's A Funny Name, Funky furniture spots
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Review from Heather M.
9/7/2010
I was walking on 11th ave SW and a chair in the window caught my eye - an Eames chaise longue for a really low price! It turns out, that the store specializes in knockoffs of iconic furniture - the Wassily chair, the Eames molded plastic chair (with the sleigh like rocking bottom) the aluminum executive chair, etc. The store is like walking into Design Within Reach, but the prices are actually within reach because everything is a knockoff! Otherwise, the store has a bunch of kitschy accessories. I also had a close look at some of their luggage - overnight bags, etc, and was slightly disappointed. Low quality leather and polyester, booo.
Otherwise, staff was nice.
Bottom line: come here if you want to get some lookalike designer furniture or a cool gift for a friend who likes quirky things and isn't so concerned with authenticity. -
Review from Sapna G.
Calgary, AB
12/4/2009
If you've ever been in the area, chances are this store has caught your eye. Nood (New Objects Of Desire) is a very cool store that has just that: objects of desire.
We're talkin' everything from the trendiest lamps you've ever seen, to chaises, luggage and even contemporary clocks!
Everything they have is completely unique to their store and when you step foot inside, it feels like you've entered the ultra hip, ultra trendy Soho district in NYC.
When I get to where I'm going and buy that place that I dream of at night, mark my words - ALL the furniture will be courtesy of Nood.
It's pricey, but it's unique, hip and ultra modern and with a combo like that, I don't mind paying the big bucks. -
Review from Alix Laura W.
Calgary, AB
7/22/2010
I first bumped into Nood back home in Victoria - it sits on Yates St by Ferris Oyster Bar and near Outlooks for Men. Classic shopping area - beautiful brick buildings on a sunny street.
I bumped into the Calgary Downtown Nood in the same kind of fashion - walking down trendy 11th Street (being dubbed the "Design District" - probably by the store owners along 11th) passing through the other shops of pricey - as in out of my price range - goods.
Nood is at it's very base a lot of fun. The almost entirely white store is designed to highlight the stuff inside - not to create an ambiance to trick you into thinking something in there is cooler than it is. It's large in size to accommodate the wide range of Nood's (New Objects of Desire - thank Sapna G. for that abbrev!) from furniture to pencil crayons.
But it is a lot of fun - they have buckets of funky kitchen and knickknacks (aka. cute clutter). Y'know, dish scrubbers shaped like people. The stuff that gives your place a little character, and can speak to your personality a bit.
Mixed in the with clutter makers are some really great pieces of functional objects. Desk organizers, wrought iron pots and pans, nice dishes, great leather bags. They have a lot of neat stuff, even for the person who lives a clutter free lifestyle.
In fact - I bought my brother-in-law, who is very A-type, a clock from there that only had a quarter of the numbers, like the number 1 - 3 or something. I think it blew his mind away and then he put it in the guest bedroom. -
Review from dinah g.
Calgary, AB
12/27/2009 10 photos
I have continuously passed this store during the night when it is closed and have found simple solace in glancing through the windows.
But today my one greatest endeavour was to enter this much awaited store. Today of course celebrates a 50% discount in most stores in Calgary and since Nood was my first location of shopping I was so incredibly pleased to be reminded of the privileges of today.
So let's call it fate, simply for the fact that I literally wanted to buy everything in the store. I couldn't believe how beautiful the furniture and household items were in here. Most of the design of the store is Scandinavian and American. I honestly couldn't believe my eyes.
Nood is my kind of candy store. Avant-garde chairs, sofas, loungers, amazing kitchen and bathroom areas with the most interesting and functional objects.
Nood for me is so much better in design than IKEA, and so much better made and for me to say that says a lot. Every detail, every functional item in that store is so well thought out by the designers who made them.
I left the store today with a laptop case, a suitcase that opens like a gift ( see photo), a chopping board, a coffee maker, and a wine dispenser. And not only did I walk away with tons of great items, they threw in a wall calendar clock as a gift. WTF!
The staff there is over the top, they are courteous and kind, so knowledgeable about what items they have in the store. I have to give a huge yelping nod to both Carrie and Barry who made my shopping frenzy at Nood today the most delightful of one.
The only way I can explain designs of the store to you is visually, so please check out my photos.
Know that Nood will be having this 50% discount sale all week in both locations in Calgary. So check it out! But only after I have visited a couple of times more okay? -
Review from WL L.
Calgary, AB
7/6/2011
I am never going to go back to Nood ever again. I initially bought a couch from them a few weeks ago, and experienced utterly appalling customer care. They only treat you well before you have bought the item, but once your credit card has swiped through and they have the sale in the bag, they don't care about you anymore.
The girl who helped me (Nicole) did not fully disclose all terms of the sale. Delivery is provided by an external 3rd party, but she neglected to inform me that the couch I bought needed to be further assembled once it arrived. Needless to say, I was unpleasantly surprised when the delivery guys called me and asked if I wanted assembly services as well. After having to pay for delivery charges on top of the couch, and potentially needing to pay assembly charges on top of that, the couch was becoming quite expensive, and it was only a cotton fabric couch! I called and said she should have told me the couch needed to be assembled; she responded that it was very easy to do. I argued that as a customer, I still had a right to know, and she said that they do not always know if furniture needs to be assembled, and that staff are sometimes new and so do not know to inform the customers. I certainly think that if they are selling the furniture, it is their job to know if it needs to be assembled. Furthermore, their customers should not be held liable for what their staff do not know.
I was simply looking for her to reimburse the assembly charges ($25 for every 15 minutes) which I didn't think was too unreasonable considering I'd just bought a thousand dollar couch from them. Instead, she said I was very welcome to return the couch for a refund, which initially was not what I wanted to do. When I finally asked to talk to her manager, as I realised she might not have the authority to approve such a thing, she ended the conversation with: "I highly doubt he will say anything different."
In the end, the manager did call me back (after I had to call back once more), but he was not very friendly nor apologetic on the phone, even after I brought up his staff's rude behaviour. He did provide a simple solution of assembling the couch for me before it was delivered, which would have been a perfect solution if the saleslady I spoke to hadn't wasted my time and ruined my day prior to it.
I decided to return the couch because I was afraid that in the event there was a problem with the couch, or delivery, I would encounter and have to deal with the same level of customer service. Again in the downtown store, I encountered a different type of attitude once I told the guy that I wanted to return the couch. It became a matter of BAD CUSTOMER SERVICE, and that is why I didn't want to support the store.
2 days later, I bought a couch from the Brick. It is a leather couch, looks really classy and modern, and was $200 CHEAPER after delivery. The delivery guys assembled my couch for me, took care of discarding the wrapping (btw, the delivery guys for Nood also told me that $25 would be charged for disposing of the couch wrappings - is this ridiculous or what?) and the couch looks AWESOME.
I'm so glad I returned my purchase at Nood, it was a GREAT decision. If there is one good thing I can say about Nood, it is that they allow you to return your purchases. All this after the "amazing" customer testimonials on their website. Rest assured I will be telling everyone I know, including friends and family about my awful experience with this subpar furniture under disguise as a "high-end" store.
