Spruce Home: Restyled Vintage Furniture
Based in Austin, Texas, reupholsterers Amanda Brown and Lizzie Joyce revive vintage furniture, then list it for sale through their website and Etsy shop, Spruce Home. They have a great eye for updat...
Based in Austin, Texas, reupholsterers Amanda Brown and Lizzie Joyce revive vintage furniture, then list it for sale through their website and Etsy shop, Spruce Home. They have a great eye for updat...
One of our "must stop" destinations when making weekend trips to Michigan is Ipso Facto, located in Three Oaks. A wonderfully curated collection of vintage and antique goods makes for a fun shopping b...
If you're at all interested in antiques, we have one word of advice, regarding Da Barn: Go. Located less than two hours from Chicago in New Buffalo, Michigan, this old barn is a scavenger's heaven. ...
Retro Inferno is located on the corner of Grand and Truman Road, on the edge of the Crossroads District of Kansas City. They buy and sell in their 11,000sq ft showroom, some of the best Mid Centu...
Yesterday we stopped by P.O.S.H., one of our favorite stores for vintage dishware in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. If you like French provincial style, this is the place for you. They have a ve...
Lum is an online gallery of high end vintage lamps. Even a quick look through their inventory will most likely turn up a lamp or two (or a dozen!) that you'd be happy... ...
A shop focused on true eclectic tastes - in the form of antique chandeliers, mirrors, artwork, and furnishings. The Evanston shop boasts, "1910 prams, a carousel horse, outsider art shelves, toys, ex...
Svenska Mobler specializes in a very specific niche: Swedish Modernist and Argentine Functionalist 20th Century furniture. Both mid-century styles have rich wood tones and and clean lines. The shop ...
Get ready to spend ample time on the internet. Once you start browsing around Vintage Looks, it's hard to stop. Lots more items and one groovy incentive-to-buy after the jump... ...
We stumbled upon this site today, and although there's some seemingly great stuff, we were pretty blown away by the high prices. Does anyone know what's up with GoAntiques.com? Anyone purchased anythi...
Primitive recently moved from its long-time location in River North to a sprawling 30,000 square-foot exhibition space in the West Loop. Although we haven't yet made it over to the new flagship sto...
We like to check in with P.O.S.H. every once in a while and see what's new in their "Flea Market Finds" section. We've got a thing for linen lately, so we were happy to see lots of tea towels. You'l...
We just bought a vintage industrial oven/stove secondhand. It needs a thorough clean-up, including refinishing a front panel. After deciding to get the panel plated in nickel, Wilmette Hardware came ...
Pagoda Red has some of the best Chinese antiques in Chicago, so when we heard about their warehouse sale (listed on the CHI Sales Calendar) we had to stop by. To inaugurate their new West Loop wareh...
We finally made it to Patina to snap some photos a few weekends ago, after many well meaning but failed attempts to stop by after its opening last fall. We won't wait long before returning - the st...
Wooden salt 'n pepper setOver the weekend we made one of our semi-regular stops into the Broadway Antique Market. While much of the stock hangs around for months and months, here are a few things we h...
After AT reader Barry tipped us off to Jubilee Furniture, we made the trek to suburban Carol Stream to scout for vintage finds. (Important to note: The store is only open on Fridays from 3-8 pm and ...
On a recent weekend visit to Ravenswood Antique Mart we snapped a bunch of photos of what is available currently....jump below for the finds: ...
Here's what Crestview says on their site: "Crestview Doors is pleased to offer a range of solid-wood doors based on the timeless designs of the American mid-century masters." It's a modern day mom an...
Local green design. Like the movement toward purchasing local food, it makes sense to seek out local resources for other needs as well. Since 2005, Verde has been a source for sustainable custom furni...
A stop on our road trip last weekend - Retro Modern. We booked a car and headed out to the wilds of Michigan for a classic summertime day trip which included sandy bathing suits, ice cream and...look...
This one is a reader tip: We got an email from Tom last week about Wilmette Hardware... "I have been working with a great shop in Wilmette, Il. Al Bar Wilmette and Wilmette Hardware.com provided t...
Discovering Scout was a pretty exciting moment. A friend had been telling us about it for a while, and venturing into this beautifully laid out Andersonville shop gave us reason to pause and stare a...
A modern old-fashioned shop. An oxymoron, yes, but it does describe RR#1 Chicago. It is housed in a 1930's apothecary just north of Chicago Avenue on Ashland, and is full of original details like mo...
The stately, steeped-in-history Merchandise Mart is a fitting home to a brand new NYC import, Urban Archeology. When the first Urban Archeology shop opened in Soho in 1978, they salvaged and sold or...