Asheville
Clay from Kenilworth to Weaverville, galleries two blocks apart downtown, and a garden centre run of nurseries out past the ridge.
The good rooms here are spread out. Take the car, and take the whole day.
Asheville's shops don't gather in one place. Downtown carries the galleries — Biltmore Avenue and Patton Avenue, a couple of minutes apart — while Haywood Road holds West Asheville's general store and its plant shop, and the clay runs from a studio on Kenilworth Road all the way up to Weaverville. Several of the best rooms on this list aren't in Asheville proper at all: Black Mountain to the east, Arden to the south, Weaverville to the north.
It's grouped below by what you're after — clay, home and vintage, the kitchen shops, or plants and the market. Nothing here paid to be listed, and we haven't been through these doors ourselves yet. Where hours are published we've noted them; where they aren't, we say so. Confirm before you drive.
3 to visit
East Fork
A complete collection of East Fork pottery all made at our factories just up the road.
Mangum Pottery
A pottery studio and shop on North Main Street in Weaverville.
Batton Clayworks
Visitors welcome to our pottery studio.
4 to visit
Grovewood Gallery
An arts and crafts destination rooted in an important part of Asheville's story
Ariel Gallery
Asheville's premier art gallery focusing on fine craft
Horse + Hero
Neoappalachian art and craft, design-minded and rooted in southern Appalachia.
Antique Tobacco Barn
Asheville's longest running destination for antiques.
2 to visit
4 to visit
Chlorophyll
Always Growing Something New
Reems Creek Nursery
Beautiful plants & useful gardening accessories
B.B. Barns Garden Center
We're more than a garden center…
Asheville City Market
A downtown farmers market on North Market Street.