Located in New York City, East Corner's first retail site was a small gallery in the Chelsea Antiques Building. From this modest space, interested clients received hours of education on history, politics, literature that related to objects including jade, porcelain, bronze, furniture and scholar objects. East Corner quickly gained a solid reputation and an explosion in appraisal requests resulted. The small gallery could no longer handle the traffic, and began to seek a more formal retail location.

In June 2000, the gallery moved to 44 Carmine Street of Greenwich Village. The larger space and ground floor location allowed for additional furniture, which also requires a functioning workshop for repair and restoration. The gallery now includes two floors of Chinese antiques and an ever-growing library of resource material. The gallery has meanwhile amassed an impressive inventory of furniture, jade, porcelain, and paintings, suitable for the casual shopper as well as the veteran collector. These pieces come from virtually every corner of the globe, as the gallery maintains strong relationships with museums, dealers and collectors in San Francisco, London, Florence, Paris, Brussels, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing.