Kassatly's
The oldest store on Worth Avenue, trading since 1923 and still family-run.
John Volk's 1957 courtyard plaza, restored in 2017 into the island's second shopping address.
The Plaza is Palm Beach's mid-century counterweight to Worth Avenue. The Phipps family commissioned the architect John Volk in 1957 with a brief he liked to quote, a shopping plaza in any style you wish, but it must endure for fifty years. Volk delivered arcades, terrazzo and two planted courtyards; F.A.O. Schwartz took space, and Gucci opened its first store outside New York here.
A restoration completed in 2017 returned the metalwork and terrazzo and rebuilt the tenant mix around fashion, food and design. Today it functions as the island's daytime social center, and its courtyards are where the town actually sits down.
The oldest store on Worth Avenue, trading since 1923 and still family-run.
The New York multi-brand boutique that anchored the Plaza's fashion relaunch in 2017.
The island's resale shop, run by Bethesda-by-the-Sea since the 1970s, where Palm Beach closets are given away.
The island, read weekly in The Brief.
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