Best of Philly

2021 Men's Footwear Designer

Style by Blain

Aside from being one of the best-dressed and best-named business owners in the city, Voltaire Blain has an unusually welcoming store — a historic Chestnut Hill home where the shoes are displayed not on racks, but on a pool table — and an equally impressive collection: Styleshoes by Alden, Paraboot, and Gaziano and Girling, some of which he designed himself.

8433 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118; stylebyblain.com