19 Tuesday Feb 2013
Posted in Architectural salvage, Flea Market Style
I was in San Francisco earlier today and stopped by Big Daddy’s Antiques….
Loved how he’s throwing color and chairs around!
The top set of blue were sold (to a fabulous Northern California designer…think St. Helena)…but the deconstructed red white and blue was adorable, affordable, and available.
More to see at Big Daddy’s Antiques here
27 Friday Aug 2010
Posted in Shop profile
Shane Brown of Big Daddy’s Antiques has been selling unique finds sourced
from travels across the US, Europe and Asia, from his enormous Los Angeles
warehouse, as well as various flea markets including our incredible Northern
California Antiques By The Bay flea market in Alameda here for over 18 years.
His website here is a catalog of one of a kind curiosities, as well as trend starting
objects, and reliable favorites. And he has just done us an enormous favor in
opening up a second huge warehouse in San Francisco …
Antique doors above from Argentina…
The unfettered space is voluminous, lit from industrial windows
high atop beam girded, age-etched concrete walls…
One of a kind light fixtures and tablescape items…
like the crocodile skull to the left…
A half wall of stacked vintage book-bound newspapers…
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts...
employed here as well with stacks of French crated demi-johns
I’ve seen these made into table lamps…
or filled with collected corks…
c. 1884…a good year?
Amid all the rough industrial…
a Swedish secretary, alabaster urns with iron bouquets,
a vintage crocodile purse, an iron scrolled bed…
For the ultimate garden room….
Numerous stone vessels and urns…
importing age and permanence and weight into the garden…
Some earlier Big Daddy posts…
Setting Up Shop at the Flea Market here
Antiques By the Bay here
Big Daddy’s North
1550 17th street
san francisco, ca 94107
(p) 415 621-6800
