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Posts tagged “traditional - ornate”

Urban Totem

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...

Reviews or Insight about GoAntiques.com?

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: Global Wares in the West Loop

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...

Al Bar Wilmette Platers and Wilmette Hardware

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 ...

Shopping in Chicago: Pagoda Red Warehouse Sale

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...

Wilmette Hardware

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...

Olde Good Things

New to Chicago is a branch of the NY-based salvage company, Olde Good Things. We have not visited the shop yet, but are intrigued by what is available. Antique wood flooring, iron work, mantels and...

Urban Archeology

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...