VINTAGE VIBES - RETRO AND ART DECO PIECES AT SECOND CHARM

DEAR ALL

It had been a hectic one week for us. Especially with the arrival of new stocks from Malacca for our Singapore based customers. While quite a number of them have been delivered, there are still a few waiting for delivery, as some of them are waiting for their new houses to be ready, and some on their year end holidays. Ah! how I wish I could do the same. But it is unlikely, as we will be relocating to a new place in mid December. Found a nice space with warehousing facilities nearby our present shop at Jalan Klapa. Will give you our new address soon.

Below are vintage retro and art deco pieces beautifully restored and upholstered. Quite a few have been taken up. Let me know if you like them as similar pieces may be available. I list too some of the new pieces that came in the last 2 weeks.

I hope the collections below will give you the vintage vibes, exciting enough to make them part of your everyday lives and strong enough to blend conservation, heritage and modernity all in. In this regard, let me share with you an email I received yesterday from a young Singapore scholar, who in between her research at Cambridge, must have found some time, to scroll down my blog and confirming buys online:

I really like your furniture. I am happy to know that by buying them from you,I'm in some way contributing to the livelihoods of people who are restoring thefurniture. If not, craftsmanship will slowly die out with time. Plus the furniture holds the history of the past owner. It feels like the furniture has some history and life story!!

i'll visit your shop soon when I'm back in singapore to see what else you've got.
Thanks again sharifa!
Han she

(22 Nov 2010)

Last Saturday, I picked up a retro sofa set from an apartment in Bishan, Singapore, to be restored and sent up to Kuala Lumpur for Aiai Chong. When I complimented how lovely her set is, she quickly emailed me back and proudly wrote that:

my parents bought the set for their first home more than 35 years ago. :-) Aiai Chong,

(21 Nov 2010)

The furnitures are passed down to her, now. The fact that she is spending money restoring them and that they will travel the distance, indicates how much she treasures her family memories and is keeping them alive.

A few hours ago, this email arrived, assuring me how strong the vintage vibes are:

Hi,

I love your website/blog! All the furnitures remind me of my grandparents, parents and holidaying in government rest houses when I was young.

My parents house is full of furniture from the 1950's to the 1970's. Its all still being used but unfortunately the furniture is looking rather 'tired' now. It needs a good prepping up. My old wardrobe door has literally fallen off the hinges and the wooden planks on the door have come apart.

Can you recommend a restorer in KL/Selangor? (I live in Subang Jaya). Does your shop in Taman Tun take in 'restoring orders' as well?

Thanks and regards

Iris

23 Nov 2010

To Iris who seeks restoration help, we be most happy to.

A vintage 1960's-70's teak armchair with retro design fabric.
The dresser stool in mustard coloured upholstery is also
a vintage 1960's. Both pieces taken up by Corinne.

Another retro 1960's chair without arms in retro design fabric.
A different colour from above. 4 pieces of the chairs available.

Another retro 1960's teak single armchair with elegant curved arms beautifully restored for Linda and Wong. Original piece was in
rosewood reddish colour, restored to a warm brown now.
Cotton stripes fabric brought in by them. We did another
set of cute black and white polka dots covers for them.

A vintage teak armchair with straight legs. Nice retro design
cotton fabric sourced by Bonita and Hans. The covers come with
piping all round to give a more defined shaped to the cushion seats.

Another retro teak armchair with the curved arms, dark stained and cream coloured PVC covers for Adeline.

A 3-seater dark stained retro sofa set with cream coloured
PVC covers. A set with the single armchair above.
Done up for Adeline

A vintage 1960's-70 solid teak coffee table. Unrestored.
Relatively good condition. Available "as is'' condition at $180.

A lovely art deco round coffee table in dark stain, mellowed with age.

Comes with glass top and brass clips at the sides. Taken up
by Cecelia over the weekend in its original condition.

A vintage round cane coffee table. 27 inches in diameter. If you love the rustic look, this piece is one of them. Available $80

My favourite surprise find of the week. A rare drop leaf mid century dining table with formica top and slim elegant legs and a center pedestal. Unrestored as yet. Available.

The drop leaf mid century modern dining table above.
Extendable at 5 ft. When collapsible, centre is 3 ft.

An elegant retro dining table restored for Jennifer. Beautiful, slim legs characteristic of the 60's. Originally in common brown lined
formica. We changed the top to the cool designed formica
below. Formica sourced by Jennifer herself.

The vintage dining table with formica top replaced

The original dining table bought by Jennifer before restoration
and formica change.

A chinese designed console table with glass top and decorative brass plates at the corners. Restored. Available.

A slim table. Can be a dining table or writing desk.
L40 x D22 x H30 inches. Restored. Available

A pretty writing desk. Not a vintage piece, though, but of solid teak
and beautifully restored with peranakan porcelain knobs.
Available

A solid art deco 1950's writing desk in beautifully grained burmese
teak. L54 x D36 x H30 inches. Worthy of a scholar's table.
Reserved by a Cambridge graduate, Saifuddin

A elegant retro solid teak writing desk. Beautifully restored.
2 pieces. One already taken up by Corinne.
Another piece available. $650

Another elegant and unique retro writing desk.
Beautifully restored. L42 x D24 x H30 inches.
Available. $650

An art deco 1950's solid teak writing table . L36 x D20 x H30.5 inches.
Unrestored. Available as is condition, $350

A lovely vintage simple writing desk with original formica top
and 2 drawers infront. Fully restored. Available $400

A cute retro sideboard, fully restored for Mohd. The colourful
formicas at the side drawers, are original to the piece.

A art deco 1950' solid teak sideboard with U-legs and sliding glass.
Rare piece. Makes a good TV cabinet. Fully restored.
Available, $450

A lovely retro, solid teak dressing table, fully restored for
Ivy and Kelvin,whose having fun hunting furniture
for their new home.

A lovely vintage retro dresser with white formica.
Restored to its original dark stain. Available. $650.
We have a similar piece in pink formica.

An art deco 1950's dresser in solid burmese teak that will make
a nice TV cabinet. Taken up by Saifudin. Another piece available.

An elegant 2-door solid teak 1960's wardrobe with beautiful cream
coloured formica in front. In very good condition.
Need no restoration. Available $450.

The inside view of the retro wardrobe above. Relatively untouched
with age. Full length, made in England, mirror

A late 19th century, early 1920's wardrobe. An antique 3-piece
set -base, body and crown at the top, with beautiful
2-panel bevelled edge mirrors in front.

An art deco one and half door solid teak wardrobe.
Bad photography here. But the piece is beautifully
restored. Reserved by Saifudin

A cute teak bedside cabinet with original cream coloured formica.
Fully restored and taken up by Cindy.

A fully restored bedside cabinet. Teak and vintage 1960's.

A low long open teak bookshelf. Fully restored. Reserved.

A vintage 1960's glass display cabinet. Taken up by interior designer, Jasmine in Kuala Lumpur. Have so many requests for this type of cupboard but limited stocks. The next one comes along, i will have to

reserve for Sham, ok Sham?

A vintage wardrobe converted into a glass display cabinet for
those conscious of space. Available $580

A rare vintage1940's-50's sideboard. Love the vintage frosted glass.
Wanted to keep this piece for myself until Ivy and Kelvin
persuaded me to let go so that the piece can match the other 2
white painted cabinets that they are getting from us.

Another rare piece vintage bookshelf. Ultra slim of 8.5 inches
in depth.Will be giving it a coat of white paint. Ivy wants the
chinese characters in gold.

Another vintage single door low cupboard that will be
given a fresh coat of white paint. Small cute vintage
pieces like this is nice to have. With 3 rare vintage pieces
all in white, it will quite an awesome collections for
Ivy and Kelvin children's room.

A round wooden top kopitiam table we customised for Bonita and Hans. The table leg was originally meant for a square marble top table. Since they really want a wooden top, we had to really dig my store for seasoned old wood. With my restorer's magic touch, we have this beautifully restored piece.

A vintage round kopitiam marble top table. 30 inches in diameter.
The marble is not in good condition, though. Love the seasoned
green paint. I woud keep it as is . Available

A cute vintage wooden rack in creamish, of white paint.
Available.

A pretty wrought iron garden table, given a fresh coat of white paint.
For Shu Ting and Kelvin who want to use it as a phone table.

Wooden bar chairs. With broad seats. Several pieces available.
$80 per piece

Retro ottomon. The good old days. Taken up by Asher.

Rushing to the shop to deliver Deborah Harrison's mahogany bed and silver table lamp. Parts of the bed got stranded in KL and we had to make special delivery just for her. Its our fault in the first place. For her patience and tolerance, I am grateful.

Till my next posting.

Warmest regards

Sharifah

posted on Tuesday, 23 Nov 11. 52 am

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