Curated Areas

No listing of classic furnishings sellers and retailers can be full and not using a point out of Curated Areas. Pip Newell began the shop on Instagram again in 2017, and it’s since develop into one in all Australia’s hottest on-line platforms for classic furnishings and homewares, promoting gadgets from a superb community of sellers and on consignment.

There’s a relentless stream of recent inventory to browse and up to date gems embody an incredible Missoni couch within the model’s signature stripes, alongside a glamorous classic marble desk that may very well be from Gatsby’s mansion!

The place to buy: On-line right here

CCSS

CCSS is our go-to for classic European items like the long-lasting Togo couches and mid-century lighting, sourcing most of their covetable inventory from Italy, France, Sweden and Denmark. The shop has additionally lately arrange a brand new showroom in Abbotsford, giving classic followers the possibility to see particular items IRL.

And so they’ve been saving up some particular finds for the shop’s opening, together with luxuriously gentle velvet Saporiti Confidential couch from the 70s, and a totally restored set of 4 Giotto Stoppino Eating Chairs in Cognac Leather-based.

The place to buy: On-line right here, and in retailer at 375 Johnston Avenue by appointment

Goodspace

Melbourne pals Stephanie and Holly are the co-directors of Goodspace, having began it has a passion that took off as a enterprise throughout lockdown.

The duo are passionate champions for classic furnishings for its sustainability, historical past and enduring type. Assertion sofas, eating settings and armchairs are ‘scorching favourites’ within the Goodspace workplace in the intervening time, which you’ll be able to snap up on a primary in greatest dressed situation on Instagram!

The place to buy: On Instagram or by e mail

LH Design Hub

Leah Holt seems to be in all places for LH Design Hub‘s timeless, one-off items that ‘get higher with age’, hitting up op-shops, auctions, Gumtree, eBay, Fb Market, and her personal community of family and friends. She’s even discovered some cult-classics Cesca chairs, stamped ‘made in Italy’ on the aspect of highway in Melbourne – and she or he takes sourcing requests!

She’s at present ‘obsessing over’ a pair of charming burl bedside tables, an Straightforward Chair by Illum Wikkelsoø, and an vintage picket dresser in her collections.

The place to buy: On-line right here, and in retailer at 5-7 Keilor Street, Essendon North by appointment

Trendy Instances

Trendy Instances‘ knowledgeable group handpicks their classic merchandise on journeys to Europe, bringing again the easiest items – and the tales behind them!

The Melbourne showroom and gallery area is refreshed each fortnight with newly restored items, however their present prime picks embody a one-of-a-kind slate mosaic espresso desk by Dutch artist Paul Kingma, and a 70s concrete eating desk with a cantilevered glass prime by the Saporiti brothers. Think about the banquet tales it might inform if tables might speak…

The place to buy: On-line right here and in retailer at 311 Smith St, Fitzroy

Temper Objects

Counsellor-turned-vintage hunter Kalu Edmunds began Temper Objects a couple of years in the past, and loves how sentimental and ’emotional’ classic furnishings might be. The client has an eye fixed (and the community!) for locating dream items like a inexperienced velvet couch by Alessandro Bechhi for Giovannetti and vibrant Murano glass wall lights imported from Italy.

Kalu can also be part of Curated House’s passionate neighborhood of classic lovers, who’s been promoting via the platform for nearly 4 years!  

The place to buy: On-line right here and in retailer at 109 Nicholson St, Brunswick East by appointment solely

Piazza Piazza

Piazza Piazza is a ‘digital market for high quality classic items’, run by inside designers who’ve been sourcing classic items for years. Primarily based in Melbourne, in addition they ship Australia broad and internationally.

With furnishings, objects and lighting from all our favorite bygone eras – that includes every part from ‘70s sofas to lamps from the ‘90s – regulate their e-newsletter so that you don’t miss their weekly drops.

The place to buy: On-line right here

Saucd

Saucd initially began in Brisbane in 2019, as a solution to a niche available in the market they noticed for sustainable, enjoyable and reasonably priced items for the house.

Now they’ve a Sydney base too, promoting their one-of-a-kind items that may be ‘insanely costly to purchase new’ like couches, eating tables and placing chairs. Additionally they have some ‘thrilling new homewares’ on the way in which within the new yr according to the present eclectic maximalism pattern!

The place to buy: On Instagram right here

Juliet’s Balcony

Sydney-based artwork director and set decorator Oleh Sokolovsky opened Juliet’s Balcony out the entrance of his place in 2010 as a Saturday morning aspect hustle, promoting mid-century items by Australian designers like Parker and Fler.

Now working from a showroom within the inside west, the shop has develop into often called a one-stop store for seating by grasp Danish designer Hans Wegner (having earned the nickname ‘Wegner World’ by common clients) alongside designs from Sweden, Finland and Germany!

The place to buy: On-line right here, through Instagram or in retailer at 423 New Canterbury Street, Dulwich Hill

Ma Home Provide Retailer

One other native fave is Ma Home Provide Retailer, run by Ben Mooney. He’s all the time had an obsession with objects and furnishings and over the the years he developed a knack for sourcing these gems, scouring marketplaces on-line for eclectic items, or snapping up classic finds at vintage bazaars.

Earlier this yr he opened up his personal retailer, inviting others to buy his curated assortment of outdated and new issues for their very own houses.

The place to buy: In retailer at 54 Johnston Avenue, Collingwood

Grandfather’s Axe

Melbourne showroom Grandfather’s Axe is aware of simply how particular classic furnishings is, with an incredible workshop group who restore every bit earlier than it lands of their Collingwood retailer.

Ed Klein based the enterprise from his storage in 2007, earlier than working in Northcote for a few decade – the place he additionally met his spouse when she was a buyer! Now the couple are amongst a group of 10 who supply and promote Scandinavian items, alongside native mid-century finds at a mixture of reasonably priced and luxurious costs.

The place to buy: On-line right here and in retailer at 360-364 Smith Avenue, Collingwood