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Posts tagged “mod 70's”

Room 4

We've been excited about Room 4 for some time now - each time we passed by it seemed there was something new in the window that we absolutely need to take home with us. Well it's now officially opened...

Urban Burp

We stopped in our tracks when we saw Urban Burp's sign outside that reads "Rare Vintage Fabrics." We quickly made a detour for their door and spent at least an hour talking textiles with Electra Skil...

San Francisco Antique and Design Mall

We hadn't been to the San Francisco Antique and Design Mall since it opened about 10 years ago. It was recommended to us by AT:SF reader Vince, who moved his two booths there after Antique Trove cl...

Swallowtail

Can a store be coveted and admired? Can it be an idol of design and good taste to be worshipped? If so, Russian Hill's Swallowtail is definitely our latest idol. We have loved this shop from the da...

Janakos and Company

Midway between trendy Burlingame Avenue and more down-to-earth, resident-oriented Broadway lies Janakos and Company. Although we'd been meaning to stop in for ages, the store quickly bumped to the to...

Antique Society

One of our favorite places in the North Bay is Sebastopol's Antique Society. The 20,000-square foot store is so full of good stuff that you can lose quite a lot of your afternoon after stepping insid...

Eden & Eden

When Rachel Eden opened the Eden & Eden design store in Jackson Square last year, she had in mind a showcase for all the quirky, fun, and beautiful treasures that she herself had collected over the ye...

The Apartment

San Francisco's Mission district is chock full of vintage thrift shops, but The Apartment is one of our favorites. The Apartment is a second-hand furniture shop featuring lots of vintage-modern, mi...

Planet Oranj

Planet Oranj is a Seattle-based mid-century antiques warehouse that also sells all its stock online. So if you live in Portland, Maine, instead of Oregon and are questing for a Franciscan Starburst g...

Past Perfect

On our trip to Past Perfect this weekend, we saw at least half a dozen things that we were tempted to take home. With 40 dealers in a space the size of two stores, and fairly rapid turn-over of ite...