Oh, how I have missed the Rose Bowl (or Long Beach, PCC, etc) – the flea market scene is in the top five things of what I loved about living in LA. So I’m thrilled that the Rose City Vintage Market (with help from Left Coast Revivals) is here and so good!! The whole family went (but we divided up because I promised Birdie a girls’ day shopping so she wanted the boys to do their own thing) and it was incredibly fun. Here is how it all went down:
The market this year was big, mostly inside but with a pretty healthy part outside as well. It was a huge mix of super curated booths (which were very fun and huge respect to the vendors who clearly put in SO MUCH WORK). There were some clothes, jewelry and art, but it was mostly a big variety of different styles of furniture and decor – just how I like it.
Laura of Left Coast Revivals helped support it a lot this year (as far as I’m understanding) and brought a lot of vendors and people out. Y’all, I’m loving this PDX vintage scene. Such lovely people with good stuff that are working so hard to source and curate beautiful things. KUDOS to all these champs.
I ran into a few friends, Max Humphrey was there signing his book and Annie (Shop Wilma) was there shopping. She scored that dope stool that I wanted to steal from her – she’ll likely be selling it soon. My goodness, the lighting in this joint was not my favorite!!!
This vendor had so many good rugs! I loved this blue rug, but the size of it worked nowhere in my house so I had to leave it. So sad since I’m so picky about vintage rugs. Hope it goes to the perfect home.
That dope ceramic lamp was $2,600 which I thought was very risky to bring to a flea market (it was awesome and a super famous midcentury potter, but I feel like it should be on 1stDibs for that price – don’t tease us!!). I almost bought that denim blazer, but I remembered I literally just got this one from Madewell that is excellent. Ha.
Snagged this seascape and it’s already found a spot in my house! It’s from Dry Goods Mercantile and those colors are incredible (and it was only $60).
I also bought a few pieces from this art vendor, Irving Street Trading Co. I am such an art hoarder and will never regret getting a great piece!
I almost bought that weird painting/mixed media over his right shoulder but it was so expensive ($750) and I couldn’t picture it immediately in my house. I’ve thought about it A LOT since then and of course, wish I had snagged it. The red/blue/white painting is AWESOME – thinking up the stairs mixed in with our family art wall.
I picked this ribbon candelabra (which I realized after the fact that it’s from SIN Ceramics so you can get one too!) and gold lamp from RestateD_PDX – both are so goooooood.
Charlie found this skateboard lamp, became OBSESSED with it and while it was overpriced IMHO ($220) the vendor, Coffee and Snacks was so sweet and had made so many things into lamps in such a fun way. Charlie doesn’t get as excited about decorating his room as Birdie does (she’s endlessly enthusiastic) so when he does really really respond to something I try to honor that (especially if it’s vintage and supporting a local vintage maker). So yes, we bought that, which then of course set off Birdie to want something that was also $200 (I tried to hide the price, but they can “read” now which is really a problem in cases like this). She immediately found a less-than-awesome super gaudy lamp (looked like Z Gallery from the ’90s) and almost threw a massive tantrum when I said no. It was hard to explain and she felt it was so unfair, but she just wanted something and didn’t even care what it was. Everything is a thing!!!
Lastly, I got an original painting by Purl that I think I could put most places in my house – the colors are so good and I’m just a big fan of his creative spirit!
It was all so fun and their next show is Oct 21st and 22nd. Below is a partial list of a lot of the vendors if you want to give them a follow (and buy some stuff). We should be getting the rest of the list shortly! These are people doing the good work, in a business that is almost impossible to scale because the nature of it is all one of a kind – so let’s support them 🙂
The Vendors
*Pretty Photos by Kaitlin Green
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