Heads Up: New Vintage and Handmade Market on the Scene

April 27, 2009

Hi y’all. The good news is I am technically still alive. The bad news is that I’m currently in a big ol’ pile of postgraduate wah, and thus have been ignoring my previously semi-regular bloggy habit. 

But I have self-exhumed to inform youse guys of an approaching vintage/crafty/handmade market which I’m sure you’ll dig: Sonny & Coco market, in Preston. Read the rest of this entry »


Aunty Detective: Upmarket 1950s and 1960s Furniture

April 4, 2009

Hooray! Another question to rouse me from my sleepiness. From JS:

Hi Detective

I have just moved t Melbourne and am looking to buy some nice, restored fifties or sixties dining chairs to go with a beaut of a table I got for half price last weekend at a closing down sale.  Can you recommend some ‘top end of town’ mid 20th furniture dealers? Read the rest of this entry »