We have a match! Sort of…
Yesterday was 78F and glorious here in Cali (sorry East Coasters). I left the house before the sun was up and headed to the famous Alameda Point Antiques Fair. I arrived at 6:30am and didn’t leave until 12:30pm. It was a long and amazing morning!
If you haven’t been – you MUST, MUST, MUST go to this market. It’s only open the 1st Sunday of every month and it is simply incredible.
At the fair, I found a match for my thrift store chair, well sort of… It’s not a perfect match, the front legs are a little different but I really like that about them. Yay!!
My "matching" chairs." Thrift store chair on the left for $20 and Antique Fair on the right for $50.
Close up of chair legs
As you can see the Antiques Fair chair had been ‘Shabby Chic”d and I will probably be changing that.
Can’t wait to work on them!!! Stay tuned….
Here are some other photos from my trip to the market:
The fair is held on an old abandoned Navy runway down by the cargo shipyards in Alameda (near Oakland). The fair and parking take up the whole runway.
Look into my crystal ball... These crystal balls were calling to me as an accessory for the living room but they were too expensive and the vendor did not want to sell the stands. Then I kind of got the heebie jeebies buying a crystal ball so I passed.
Absolutely loved this grapevine(?) sculpture thingy on this fantastic table. This vendor is pretty pricey so I passed.
If I could have a chicken coop - this is the one I would want! That fire hydrant was for sale too.
Alex had a cool project for me while I was there. He wanted vintage staffing firm antiques, like a timecard clock, time card display, etc. I didn’t find any of those but scored this awesome check payment machine from Paymaster for $2. They originally wanted $8 for it but couldn’t get it to work on demand (it just needs to be unlocked). Still very cool!
Vintage Paymaster check writing machine
And finally on the way out I saw this guy – with a creme brulee cart. Genius!
Creme brulee from a cart - how awesome!
View of the Oakland hills and the crowds walking back the runway back to find their cars
I SOOOO wish I could go! I would find some AMAZING things for the studio there!
Let me know what you are looking for Mel! I can always send you photo via text.
I would love to go!!!! Let’s go together next time!
those chairs are AMAZING! they should be relatively easy to refinish–what are your ideas for them??