Rob W.
Yelp
As far as I could ascertain, I did not in fact step out of Cobble Hill and directly into a Wes Anderson movie when I opened the door of this establishment, but I mean, I may as well have. This store has its own characters and storyline and made up town and random townspeople that "explains" its products ("The Six Bells takes its inspiration from a tiny shop located in the fictional village of Barrow's Green.") No, really.
Too twee by an exponential power, this place feels like it was constructed as a part of some absurdist hipster Brooklyn joke, although a lot of its content felt like it would fit more in a country store upstate than a city shop. Items (lamps, vases, bedding) were unsurprisingly at expensive, bespoke level pricing. After staring around dumbfounded for a few minutes until I clarified for myself that what I was seeing was real, I went down the block to one of the countless stores that was a store selling actual merchandise in the current world and town I inhabited to secure the gift I had been shopping for.