a friend posted a web link to her friend's new cafe some time last year and i was delighted to find out that the cafe also sells refurbished furniture - the mid-century kind that i love so much.
check out the gorgeous dresser and chair! heart the sexxy pencil legs.
to satisfy my curiosity, andrew and i popped by ReStore (124 Tanjong Pagar Road) last week, and indulged in some really yummy waffles (while i oogled the sexy furniture). sad to know that a pair of chairs i was eyeing was already sold - i would have grabbed them otherwise!
anyway. as much as i want to, i should not buy furniture now. (of course, if they are dirt cheap and unique, resistance is futile!) but it doesn't stop me from listing all the places i can hunt vintage furniture down in tiny Singapore. after all, hdb tells me that my flat will most likely be completed by june! :)
so, here's a list of places i've heard of, googled up or visited previously, and would visit when a&e get the keys to 612cpd7879:
VINTAGE FURNITURE
- David Antiques
215 Rangoon Road S218456
t: 6291 8227 - Hock Siong & Co
*used items from hotels and service apartments in singapore
hocksiong.com.sg
153 Kampong Ampat Junjie Industrial Building #01-03 S386326
t: 6281 8338 - Journey East
*restored art deco and retro wood furniture
www.journeyeast.com
315 Outram Road #03-02 Tan Boon Liat Building S169074
t: 6473 1693 - Junkies Corner
94 Jalan Senang S418467
m: 9791 2607 (charlie/joseph teo) - Like That One
*vintage furnishings
www.likethatone.com
2 Bt Batok Street 24 Skytech #01-02 S659480
t: 6560 9168 - Lorgan's
*funky 50s retro store
www.lorgans.com
100E Pasir Panjang Road #01-03 Century Warehouse S118521
t: 6272 4988
m: 9455 0133 - ReStore Living
www.restoreliving.blogspot.com
124 Tanjong Pagar Road S088533
t: 6222 3510 - Second Charm
www.charm2nd.blogspot.com
Blk 19 Kallang Avenue #04-157 Mapletree Industrial Building S339410
t: 9628 9171
m: 6294 2919 - Stewarts
*chinese art deco
www.stew-arts.com.sg
268 Upper Bukit Timah Road #02-10 Indigo Block S588210
t: 6468 4886
m: 9627 0644 - The Heritage Shop
93 Jalan Sultan #01-01 S198997
t: 6223 7982 - Tong Mern Sern Antiques Arts & Crafts
*antique shop with eccentric owner
51 Craig Road S089689
t: 6734 0761
NON-FURNITURE VINTAGE STUFF
- C.K. Collection
*musty shop full of bric-a-brac, especially vintage fans
586 Serangoon Road, 218200
t: 6293 2301 - Odds 'N' Collectables
*singapore's portabello market, all crammed in a shop
oddsandcollectables.com
128 Telok Ayer Road S068597
t: 6323 0043
m: 9662 4461 - Past Image
5 Coleman Street #03-08 Excelsior Shopping Centre S179805
t: 63393985 - The Attic
Far East Shopping Mall #04-146
let me know if you have more places to add to this list, will you?