VINTAGE & RECLAIMED FURNITURE
Anazao Inc.
Anazao designs, builds and installs exceptional custom wood furniture, flooring, decor and accents – much of it made from the finest reclaimed and salvaged lumber – as well as complex architectural millwork. Their selection is a go-to for architects and designers, while homeowners can also count on these pros for project management, finishing and impeccable handcrafted furnishings, including extendable dining tables with hand-rubbed oil, dressers made from single slabs of walnut, liveedge vanities and brilliant barn doors with forged steel handles and brackets. 10 JUTLAND RD, ETOBICOKE 647 792 7855 BY APPT ONLY ANAZAOINC.COM
Atomic Design
Lawrence Blairs recently expanded his collection of mid-century pieces (heavy on the Eameses, Verner Panton and Pierre Paulin) to include refurbished
1950s and ’60s originals and post-modern designs from the ’70s and early ’80s. AD’S smaller decor accents delight: hand-blown Murano glass table lamps, neon art and a selection of Scandinavian and Italian glassware. Spark, an in-house range of custom lighting, includes table and suspension lamps in warm burnished brass. 965 QUEEN ST W 416 912 2358 ATOMICDESIGN.CA
Bungalow
Aficionados of mid-century Scandinavian furniture and accents make Bungalow a regular stop, thanks to its rotating collection of impeccably maintained and refurbished vintage dining sets, modular wall units and occasional chairs from Domino, Dyrlund, Herman Miller, Niels Koefoed and Imperial Furniture. Art glass from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s peppers the space, as do such hard-to-find European housewares as Dansk cookware and German ceramics. 273 AUGUSTA AVE 416 598 0204 BUNGALOW.TO
Canadian Salvaged Timber
For over 20 years, Lambos Tsaousidis has custom-built furniture and accessories using locally sourced premium woods. Slabs of live-edge oak, elm and maple – and all sorts of salvaged flooring – are ready to become your next kitchen island, dining table or storage unit. Bring your ideas and let Tsaousidis take over; his portfolio runs the gamut from shabby-chic barn doors and cabinets to minimalist platform beds, work tables and industrial benches. 442 DUFFERIN ST, UNIT J 416 530 1333 CANADIANSALVAGEDTIMBER.CA
Forever Interiors
Martin Scott’s one-of-a-kind furniture incorporates distinctive salvaged pieces and reclaimed wood. While Scott will build just about anything to order – benches, kitchen islands, sliding barn doors – he specializes in six distinctive harvest tables, as well as cabinets and shelving units. Distressed bookshelves exude a rustic vibe, while Scott’s industrial Tree Shelf, made with metal posts and thick slabs of BC fir, can be customized for any residential or commercial space. 2903 DUNDAS ST W 416 291 2001 FOREVERINTERIORS.COM
GUFF
Great Used Furniture Finds brims with vintage seating, tables and storage units. Estate-sale pieces from Eames, Herman Miller and Arne Jacobsen move through regularly, as do rarities like sculptural chairs by Guglielmo Ulrich or teak coffee tables by Ole Wanscher for P. Jeppesen. GUFF’S pieces are meticulously vetted for style and quality, resulting in a tight edit of impressive furniture, while the showroom interior is sparse and open to allow the inherent beauty of the wares to speak for itself. 1 DAVIES AVE 416 913 8025 GUFFFURNITURE.COM
Habitat for Humanity Restore
HHR’S 10 GTA locations sell new and gently used furniture and renovation materials at steep discounts, with proceeds funding HH’S home-building programs. The stores are a popular source, thanks to a well-organized selection of furniture, appliances, sinks, cabinets, windows, paint and more. Savvy shoppers can score lucky finds like ornate headboards or retro coffee tables donated by local showrooms, but remember: pieces are here today, gone tomorrow. 155 BERMONDSEY RD 416 755 7353 x248 (ALSO: 7 QUEEN ELIZABETH BLVD, ETOBICOKE 416 755 7353 x302; 7701 WOODBINE AVE, MARKHAM 416 755 7353 x305; 16715 YONGE ST, UNIT C, NEWMARKET 416 755 7353 x306) HABITATGTA.CA/RESTORE
Inabstracto
Inabstracto boasts vintage and vintage-inspired pieces from handmade floor and desk lamps by Toronto’s Paul Campbell to aluminum pendants made from recycled fire extinguishers by Castor Design; from original chairs by the likes of Verner Panton and Allan Gould to a selection of vintage tables in teak and rosewood. You’ll also find Kurt Swinghammer’s contemporary Canadiana paintings, Zeed Design lighting with meticulously folded paper shades and intricate animal forms by ceramicist Janet Macpherson. 1160 QUEEN ST W 416 533 6362 INABSTRACTO.COM
Machine Age Modern
Jake Keck’s boutique is a treasure trove of collectible vintage furniture, lighting and accessories. Modern classics from Eames are flanked by rare and stunning international finds like Hans Brattrud lounge chairs or Charles Rennie Mackintosh dining sets. Look for beautiful Danish teak bars that perfectly complement the other Scandinavian-inflected designs featured throughout the store. MAM also offers vintage culinary accessories, among them authentic retro mixers, dishes and cast-iron pans. 1000 QUEEN ST E 416 461 3588 MACHINEAGEMODERN.COM
Metropolis Living
From their workshop, showroom and event space, avid collectors Phil Freire and Maggie Gattesco custom-build both modern and vintage-inspired furniture and lighting for anyone with an eye for the unusual. Current orders include barstools for popular downtown restaurants and whimsical pieces like cowboy-boot pendants and a bathtub converted into a couch. The duo restores and reuses anything old, from neon signs to the rotary-dial phones your parents used to use. 37 MILFORD AVE 416 241 0777 BY APPT ONLY METROPOLIS-LIVING.COM
Phil’z
This modernist emporium will leave you wishing for a loft to fill with its iconic light fixtures and rare vintage furniture and contemporary finds. Cynthia and Phil Markowitz’s space is impeccably stocked with refurbished 1950s coffee tables, mid-century sofas and a selection of teak cabinets and sideboards. Hot finds include Joe Colombo’s poker table for Zanotta, a classic tulip dining table and, for the quintessential bachelor pad, Bruno Mathsson’s aptly named Jetson 66 lounger. 2906 DUNDAS ST W 416 461 9913 PHILZ20THCENTURY.COM
Porch Modern
Colen Colthurst’s rare, high-end and historic Scandinavian and American furniture, as well as 20th-century art and sculpture, make PM a destination for savvy buyers. Gold-mine finds: a three-legged, pre-production CTM coffee table (worked on by Charles Eames himself); Wendell Castle’s cloudlike Molar Group settee and Harry Bertoia’s sound sculptures, including a patinated bronze gong. Also here: Timo Sarpaneva’s curvaceous icolour decanters and Tapio Wirkkala bowls and vases in silver, brass and bronze. 344 WESTMORELAND AVE N, STE #210 416 473 7789 BY APPT ONLY PORCHMODERN.COM
Post + Beam Reclamation
Stained-glass windows hang from the high ceilings at P+B, an intrepid architectural picker’s paradise that’s equal parts salvage yard and antique store. Owner Doug Killaly offers a constantly changing supply of artifacts, with an emphasis on iron gates, garden statuary, hardware and antique maps. You’ll find welded-steel topiary forms, leaded-glass windows, reclaimed iron panels, antique maps and a pair of English bronzed-steel candelabra with arms adorned by a leafy art-nouveau motif. 2869 DUNDAS ST W 416 913 4243 PANDB.CA
Queen West Antique Centre
Amy and Mike Mason’s sprawling store is a go-to for high-end 20th-century furniture, from art deco to mid-century modern to Danish modern. Among the authentic Eames side chairs, as well as Eero Saarinen’s Womb chair and Pedestal table, are a plethora of sideboards and dining tables in teak and walnut from H.W. Klein, Johannes Andersen and Russell Spanner. Statement-making lighting includes hemispherical pendants with perforated shades and table lamps with hand-blown glass globes. 1605 QUEEN ST W 416 588 2212 QWAC.CA
Rec + Art History
What looks like another Queen West hole-in-thewall is surprisingly well stocked with rare decor items and mid-century hardwood furniture, including rustic wooden chairs, vintage globes and glassware. Shelves and tables are lined with vintage curios, goblets, steins, champagne coupes and rock glasses; it’s no surprise, then, that bar owners come here in search of vintage glassware. Other fun finds: silver patina trays, Audubon bird prints and seasonal ornaments. 1080 QUEEN ST W 416 662 9235
Retroworks
A shared penchant for industrial-styled bespoke furniture led husband-and-wife team Jamie and Liz Filman to open an online shop for their wares, whose exposed rivets and brackets belie deft engineering and quality craftsmanship. Steel and pine bookcases,
coffee tables, media stands and wide industrial shelving units (all on iron castors!) are available in a variety of compositions and hand-applied finishes. Hot tip: ordering a matching set will score you a discounted price. RETROWORKS.CA
Smash
Owner Paul Mercer snags the best doomed-fordemolition materials (old signage, display cases, industrial fixtures), so you never know what you’ll find in this sprawling space – but stock usually includes vintage character pieces in project-ready multiples. A recent visit turned up everything from stately iron gates and steel-framed factory windows to a diverse assortment of retro furnishings: rustic sawbuck tables, Eames moulded-plywood chairs and a groovy pair of side tables with macramé bases. 2880 DUNDAS ST W 416 762 3113 SMASHSALVAGE.COM
Urban Tree Salvage
For 14 years, Sean Gorham and Melissa Neist have been giving new life to thousands of felled city trees in the form of rustic-cool furniture fashioned from trunks and limbs. Everything is milled, kilned and hand-oiled on site. The duo’s bespoke reclaimed and salvaged live-edge slab kitchen and dining tables highlight the preexisting knots and grain. Other standout pieces include boardroom and coffee tables, consoles, benches and desks, as well as island and vanity tops. 689 WARDEN AVE, UNIT #7, SCARBOROUGH 647 438 7516 URBANTREESALVAGE.COM
WC The Store
A storefront extension to interior design firm Williamscraig flaunts vintage furniture that runs the gamut from rustic to regal, with a few oddities thrown in for good measure. Specializing in conversation pieces for contemporary homes, WC carries reupholstered antique chairs, raw wood tables and industrial lighting. The unique accessories range from quirky to theatrical; from brass candlesticks and primitive stoneware to vintage dolls, antique beehives and rare textiles from around the world. 930 DUNDAS ST W 416 516 2177 WCTHESTORE.COM
What the Vintage
John Baltazar’s Scarborough showroom is full of pretty much perfect mid-mod furniture and accessories, from Danish teak writing desks to West German ceramic vases – not to mention framed vintage serigraphs and floor lamps with fibreglass shades atop tripod bases. Baltazar posts photos of his inventory online and offers free delivery to anyone in the city – meaning you should act fast when that teak arc floor lamp, Swedish bar cart or Danish mid-century desk becomes available. 371 OLD KINGSTON RD, UNIT A, SCARBOROUGH 647 983 6059 WHATTHEVINTAGE.COM
Zenporium
Zenporium is committed to sustainability, offering guilt-free furniture made using only reclaimed and responsibly harvested materials. The Architectural Salvage collection repurposes teak found at old construction sites into striking side tables and storage units. Other pieces incorporate petrified wood that has been cut and polished to highlight its inherent beauty into beguiling pedestals and side tables atop minimalist steel bases. 388 CARLAW AVE, UNIT #202F 416 778 8936 (ALSO: IMPROVE CANADA, 7250 KEELE ST, UNITS #46 & 251, VAUGHAN 855 891 8936) ZENPORIUM.COM
Zig Zag
Joe Graafmans’s vintage shop is a haven for fans of furniture, lighting and accessories with sleek mid-century style. Expect to find a choice selection of teak furniture and accessories, like Arne Hovmand-olsen chairs and outstanding lamps sourced from Europe. The boutique’s focus on lighting has yielded even more incredible finds, including a space-age chrome pendant from the ’60s, and a striking Meret Oppenheim–designed Traccia table complete with bronze base topped with gold leaf on wood. 985 QUEEN ST E 416 778 6495 ZIGZAGMIDCENTURY.COM More vintage & reclaimed: Door Store, Door Studio and Studio Pazo.