Gu Qigao’s bright furniture shop and café is so perfectly curated you’ll want to move straight in. The handsomely refurbed courtyard house near the Confucius Temple has two floors filled with furniture and home goods by Japanese and Chinese designers, including Gu himself. Pieces, among them dining tables begging to be draped with linen and topped with bright plates of food, are beautifully simple, made of either walnut or ash. Take a breather in the airy courtyard café, where trendy locals sip coffee and tea and munch on pretty sweets like matcha cheesecake.
