As I get older, I like old things more and more. Why is that?

When I was a child, there was a sewing machine at home. Every night, my mother would pedal it and pieces of clothes would flow out of it...

I still remember the leather sofa at my grandma's house. I often squatted on it to eat watermelon. The high and hard leather surface was loaded with the scenes of my entire childhood...

We want to seal time and keep the stories of those years. Every old object is a "shuttle" to record the passage of time and recall the growth bit by bit. It is not only nostalgic, but also romantic, and it is the intimate trace left by time.

In recent years, vintage furniture has frequently appeared in international fashion home magazines and has been widely favored. It has become a trendy item for young artists to mix and match in their new home decoration and is also suitable for commercial display.

This old-fashioned double high-backed row chair shows the traces of time. Chinese retro furniture always gives people a dignified feeling. The mottled light blue paint on the chair is not lacking in the sense of elegance. Even if this chair is placed in a corner, it will still shine.

The old dining table made of fir and iron is a specially treated old wood with weathered texture and refined lines. The worm holes that were randomly knocked on remind us of the New Year's Eve dinner when the whole family sat together in the past.

Why do people like old furniture? There is a word "vintage" that summarizes the old quality that people pursue. There are many vintage stores selling old furniture abroad. The furniture inside retains practicality and gives people a sense of historical existence. Old furniture is not only about reminiscing about the old times, but also about recreating classics. For young people who understand life, these old retro furniture can add icing on the cake to their lives. Today, Xiaofeijun will bring you a few vintage home furnishing stores, so that you have a place to go on the recent drizzling winter days.

Hu Lai Workshop

The taste of old Shanghai

This studio, which specializes in selling retro furniture, became a hit on Weibo last year. It is located in a hidden alley on Nanchang Road. Walking up the creaky wooden stairs, you can push open the old wooden door on the second floor. The approximately 40-square-meter studio displays all kinds of bizarre and eccentric retro items that the owner, Sam, who works in the advertising industry, has found from all corners of the world, including South America, India, Cuba, and Hong Kong.

Including lamps used by Jews, old magazines, books, photos, mottled children's hand drums, Polaroid cameras, marine telescopes, etc., depicting the traces of time and long-forgotten secrets. When it comes to selecting items, Sam believes in fate. When strolling around flea markets in his spare time, he may come across antiques that move his heart.

The wooden table placed in the center of the studio was made from a door from Anhui Province. Touching the deep wood marks makes one feel like returning to the charming old times. Sam revealed that movie and best-selling book posters from the 1970s and 1980s are hung on the wall, and the curtains on the window frame were made by Sam himself.

The four sofa chairs in the room were all restored by Sam's friends without any modification. The leather lining is even filled with sponges from decades ago. The curvature of the handles is enough to illustrate the delicate craftsmanship of the time, which is incomparable to the mass-produced furniture sold in department stores .

▲Some elegant Christmas-colored leather Shanghai old sofas

Going deeper, you can find a terrace with a different world. Whether it is a sunny afternoon or a sunset evening, you can see the roofs of nearby bungalows and pedestrians in the alleys from here, and feel the atmosphere of old Shanghai. You need to make an appointment with Sam before going to the studio, and listen to him tell the story behind each item.

Address: 2F, Back Door, No. 234, Nanchang Road, Shanghai

TEL：13611982623

R.G.F

More than just retro furniture

RGF is a collection of retro furniture, coffee gardens, and flower shops in various styles. The three-story main building mainly sells furniture, which includes retro industrial style, the most representative French retro style, and Nordic minimalist style. Here you can find the flamboyant industrial style, the most popular afternoon tea in Shanghai, and it is also a favorite shooting location for celebrities and magazines. When you enter the store, you can buy everything you see, and any item you touch may be a century-old item from Indonesia or Europe.

RGF is located at a corner of Julu Road, which is famous for its petty bourgeoisie and literary style. The four partners frequently go to Southeast Asian countries to buy exotic vintage furniture and sundries, and redesign some old items in an Up Recycling way. For example, the wooden boards of rooms and cars are collected and redesigned into other furniture that can continue to be used in life. It really makes people can't wait to choose a weekend to visit this unique kingdom of fashionable furniture!

RGF has a fashionable heart. The lobby is a retro furniture store, which can be felt from every detail and every item. After passing the lobby, you will come to the back garden, which is really a fairyland with all kinds of beautiful European potted plants and a transparent glass house that makes people feel like they have suddenly left the city and entered a jungle. There are also cute little orange trees and the statue of Venus on the corner stairs, which will make you take out your phone and take a few more photos.

Considering that many customers come to the store to look at furniture for the first time, and they have to be exposed to a lot of new things in a short period of time, it is a very urgent thing, so we thought that customers may need some time to sit down, and they can go to the garden in the yard, the glass greenhouse or the balcony, have a cup of coffee, slow down and appreciate the atmosphere brought by the retro furniture, so the Rose Garden Coffee Shop in the backyard was established. It has been very popular since its opening, because there are not many seats in the glass greenhouse, and every weekend, you need to make an appointment to drink coffee.

▲Some of the furniture in the store are renovated and recycled, such as the car sofa made from old cars and boards.

▲Modern yet retro Nordic minimalist furniture

RGF's 500-square-meter showroom is not just a retro furniture store in the strict sense. It uses diversified styles to display and promote a higher quality lifestyle in a multi-dimensional and three-dimensional way, leading consumers to experience today's most IN and fashionable lifestyle and attitude towards life.

Address: No. 405, Julu Road, Shanghai

TEL：021-62256273

SUREECO

Chinese retro style

Su Ke is a home furnishing brand dedicated to presenting a modern oriental lifestyle. While inheriting the simplicity, generosity, warmth and comfort of modernism, it combines it with the elegant, reserved, dignified and luxurious oriental spirit, advocating a home life that returns to the origin of nature.

"Modern minimalist style with oriental cultural atmosphere" is my understanding of Su Ke furniture design style. Su Ke is a high-end brand among independent designer brands. Under the premise of high-end, Su Ke furniture is quite versatile. It is very suitable for a Chinese Zen atmosphere, and it is also very harmonious in a modern and luxurious environment. It just blends the characteristics of China and the West, which conforms to the aesthetics of most people.

Address: C02, 3rd Floor, Sixth Space Home Life Plaza, No. 18, Xihu Avenue, Hangzhou

Opening hours: 10:00-20:00 daily

BackRevo

Strong industrial retro style

The former "largest slaughterhouse in the Far East" - 1933 Laochangfang attracted the retro home furnishing brand RetroRevo with its unique layout and ultimate experience. Entering the store, the old multi-drawer cabinets are lined up against the rough industrial walls, and a strong sense of history immediately hits you. The heavy cement columns combined with the metal-framed floor-to-ceiling doors and windows will surely make you sigh at the owner's exquisite location selection - there is no better place to open this store than Laochangfang.

Retro Revo is an industrial retro furniture brand from the UK. Each product is handmade by craftsmen. Industrial furniture, lamps, solid wood furniture, retro handmade sofas, carpets, accessories and other products are displayed in a sentimental way. Here, you can feel the vitality and soul brought to the space by objects full of history and personality.

Using metal and solid wood as the main materials, Retro Revo emphasizes that every product is handmade, bringing people back to the industrial age full of mechanization and passion, and experiencing the extraordinary history of these exquisite objects and the moving stories behind them. From furniture, lamps to carpets and accessories, the mix and match combination in the store allows objects full of history and personality to bring vitality and soul to the space.

On one side of the window, a few retro leather sofas form a small space, which at first glance seem to be old goods bought from a European second-hand store. Sitting here will make people feel as if they are in a movie scene. No wonder their furniture is often borrowed by film crews as props for filming. People who like this place do not need to use expensive furniture to show off their success. What is most important is to express their true self through the matching of space.

Address: 1-111, 1933 Laochangfang, No. 611, Liyang Road, Shanghai; No. 18, Liuying Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou

TEL：021-64030292；0571-87853095

Fnji

Satisfy the fantasy of literary youth

Fanji Living Room is the furniture showroom of furniture designer brand "Fanji" in Hangzhou. It is located near Xiaohe Mountain, about 60 yuan away from West Lake by taxi. It is located in a large factory built in the 1960s. The indoor lighting and the display of wooden furniture make Fanji Living Room exude the beauty of a simple and natural home.

All of Fanji's products are displayed in the more than 200-square-meter Fanji Living Room. It is not only a space for people to experience Fanji furniture, but also a place where they can place orders directly.

Fanji furniture uses white ash and black walnut from North America, and recently began to use domestic walnut, making the texture look more subtle and warm. At first glance, the price of Fanji furniture seems "not cheap", but from the perspective of wood and production technology, it seems to be justified. Each piece of furniture takes about 50 days to produce from design to finished product, and any piece of furniture is hand-polished by craftsmen, and with the design inspiration that Gu Qigao gets from the daily life of the family, Fanji furniture is particularly friendly and practical to use.

Fnji often visits people for interviews, meets a group of like-minded and passionate friends, and spreads this lifestyle together. The living room not only has all the furniture in the entire Fnji product line, but also handmade daily necessities by young Japanese craftsman Oji Masanori. Oji Masanori is a representative of contemporary Japanese handicrafts, with handmade daily utensils as the main line, from brass knives and forks to feather dusters, dustpans and other household utensils.

Each item is handmade, and the inner surface of the simple lines retains the natural casting texture of the metal. There are also animal-shaped wooden toys made by the local handicraft brand Banmen Yuefu in Hangzhou. Each toy is full of the designer's playful humor, with a bold block structure that is abstract and vivid. In the details such as the turning points and the touch of playing, you can still feel the continuation of traditional wood art by Banmen Yuefu.

Address: Building 15, Dongxinhe Innovation Park, No. 139 Liuhe Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou

TEL：0571-88963099

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00

U+

Redefining New Chinese Style

U+ brand was founded with "gene" as the source of inspiration, and has been committed to the original design and production of contemporary furniture for many years. With a "kind" understanding of life and people, full of love for life, and unremitting pursuit of exquisite life, furniture design conveys the "beauty of kindness".

U+ upholds the spirit of craftsmanship and keeps making progress. With its own modern factory, it uses craftsmanship and science and technology in harmony to provide high-quality furniture with both form and spirit for contemporary life. It hopes to return the spirit in people's bones to contemporary daily life.

There are many furniture brands that define themselves as Chinese style, but U+ is very dedicated and professional in this style. At the same time, the elements are used very well in the design, with a strong Chinese flavor, good taste, and details that can withstand scrutiny and also reflect the texture. Moreover, U+ displays the furniture in a cultural heritage park like Fuyi Cang, which is very suitable for the temperament.

▲The furniture in this room is all the latest products from U+, bedroom furniture with oriental style

In the current domestic furniture market, solid wood furniture is in vogue, and factors such as "heavy materials and rough lines" have become the "trademarks" of domestic solid wood furniture. However, apart from these trademarks, the industry seems to have not found a connotation to carry this form of solid wood. U+'s products are made of fine materials, and every inch of wood is used to its fullest. However, its thin lines not only do not bring a sense of weakness, but outline the roughness in its bones. The products are solemn without losing their charm. In the eyes of U+, the aesthetic value of an object is far greater than the value of the object itself.

Address: Building 4, Fuyi Warehouse, No. 8 Xiawan Road, Gongshu District, Hangzhou

TEL：18868819916

Opening hours: 10:00~17:30 daily

Nordic emoticons

Only sells European classics

NORHOR has long been a well-known brand in the Taobao home furnishing circle. It started with an online store in 2003, then established a warehouse-style store on Yueliang Road, and now has a large-scale life experience center in Huayuan Creative Factory. The continuous transformation is only to keep the original intention, insist on unique home furnishings and home accessories, so that more families dare to pursue the "dream home".

In the showroom, modern black walnut tables and chairs, suitcases imported from India, French retro original color bedside tables, special leather and fabric sofas, beautiful home furnishings or genuine foreign trade unique products are all placed in a staggered manner. It must be said that the Teddy Bear Chair is one of the classics of Nordic modern design furniture. Its armrests are like a big bear hugging you from behind with its paws. The lively and interesting shape and simple and concise characteristics make it extremely comfortable to sit on and full of a sense of security.

NORHOR's style is gentle and generous, fascinated by those who also pursue a simple life. In such a simple and traditional industrial factory, the original color of the furniture is highlighted. Imagine walking around in such a unique exhibition hall, slowly pondering and savoring their unique designs, which is also an attitude towards life.

As a home furnishings buyer's shop, good taste and vision are essential skills. Nordic Expression only sells classic models. Although they are not original, the quality is comparable to them. There are many products, and the home accessories are relatively complete. The style is retro and good-looking. Compared with some independent home furnishing brands, the price is also much cheaper. If you are worried about not being able to buy good-looking home accessories, you should be rewarded by choosing here.

Address: Building 69, Phase II, Huayuan Creative Factory, No. 566, Hemu Road, Gongshu District, Hangzhou

TEL：18698588451

Opening hours: 9:00-18:00 daily

Tactile Space

A primal collision of wood and cast iron

The brand "Touch Space" originates from the artist's requirements for furniture, hoping to find a more authentic self through his own design and manufacturing among the various choices. Its design concept is based on classic models, and advocates the natural return of body and mind through rethinking of touch, proportion, craftsmanship, vision, details and quality.

Logs and cast iron are the two materials that founder Chen Feibo likes to use the most. All products of Touch Space are made of these two materials. After logs are processed into furniture, their cells are still alive and breathing, just like living organisms living with us, carrying the memory of time. Therefore, Chen Feibo does not do any chemical treatment on the surface of logs.

The logs are simply allowed to air dry naturally, and a transparent coating made from honey is applied on them to keep them moist and prevent cracking; for cast iron furniture, only a layer of anti-rust varnish is added to the surface of the cast iron, through which the mottled rust of the cast iron can still be vaguely seen. "Natural refers to the state of things being undecorated and reflecting their original appearance, which is also a state I have been exploring," said Chen Feibo.

This is a brand with a very light commercial flavor. It reflects more the personal preferences and interests of the founding designer Chen Feibo. Together with his other designs, it forms a style that belongs to him, and furniture is just one of the ways to express it.

Address: ABC space, 1st floor, Changjian Building, No. 415 Chengye Road, Binjiang District, Hangzhou

TEL：0571-28870780

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-24:00

Xu Fu Rosewood

Post-industrial retro

Some people would travel thousands of miles to this small county town just to find their favorite Ming and Qing furniture. This place is the Xu Fu Redwood Museum, which is suitable for both sunny and rainy days and different at night.

The colors of the furniture here are indescribably bright, bright red, turmeric, dark green... the rich colors are full of charm, making people unable to help but browse again and again.

Xu Fu Rosewood Museum, such an antique place, houses a wide variety of "Ning-style furniture" made mainly of classical rosewood, as well as various handmade works with unique eastern Zhejiang culture. In addition to marveling at the dazzling array of finished products, what is even more admirable is the craftsmanship and perseverance of the craftsmen.

Nowadays, there are very few antique furniture distribution centers with such a strong traditional cultural atmosphere . Shaw's Redwood people design and produce not only classical furniture, but more importantly, it is a historical responsibility to inherit and promote the traditional culture of our Chinese nation for thousands of years.

Address: No. 26, Industrial Development Zone, North Hubin Road, Fanshi, Longshan Town, Cixi City, Zhejiang Province

TEL：0574-63661375

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