Vintage Gets a Second Chance
Experience a collection of the best vintage furniture from the 19th & 20th centuries with the kind of character and quality you can't fake. In a world that pushes us toward similarity, old furniture offers something different—real personality, better craftsmanship, and actual history. Each piece in my collection is chosen thoughtfully, carefully, and because I wanted it in my own home.
Perfect is mass-produced. Imperfect is one-of-a-kind.
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Chicago’s curated source for Midcentury Modern, Vintage, & Unique Furniture Finds for Your Home
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Based out of Chicago, IL.
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2025
What started as a newsletter highlighting the history of famous furniture designs turned into me chasing them down in the real world. In 2025, I began hunting for pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries that made me stop and stare—furniture with character, color, and its own story to tell. Here you’ll find my collection of fabulous vintage finds for your home.
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A set of four Danish modern teak dining chairs from the 1960s, newly reupholstered in a bold black and white zebra print fabric.
The chairs are unmarked, we haven't been able to identify the specific manufacturer, which wasn't unusual for smaller Danish workshops producing furniture in this period. The construction is consistent with quality Danish cabinetmaking of the 1960s: solid teak frames with the characteristic reddish-brown tone that comes from the species itself rather than staining, clean-lined joinery, and a straightforward silhouette that was common across several Danish makers of the era. The back panel is a separate upholstered piece that attaches to the frame, floating slightly above the seat, a detail that gives the chair a lighter, more open look from behind.
The zebra print fabric is new. It's a deliberate choice that sits somewhere between Danish restraint and something a bit more playful, the graphic black and white pattern reads strongly against the warm teak, and the contrast works better in person than you might expect from photos. If you're looking for chairs that blend into a room, these aren't them. If you want four chairs that become part of the conversation, they'll do that.
A set of four is useful: enough for a small dining table, or split into pairs in different rooms.
A set of two William Andrus lounge chairs and matching coffee table from the Steelcase Soft Seating Group, 1972, one of the most significant American institutional furniture designs of the Space Age period.
William Clifford Andrus designed the Soft Seating Group for Steelcase in 1972, and it won the top design award for institutional furniture and innovative use of materials that same year. The concept was precise: Andrus wanted the contrast between hard and soft, the rigid white lacquered fiberglass shells appear to float on a transparent Lucite base, while the upholstered cushions provide the softness. The result is furniture that reads as sculpture first and seating second.
These two lounge chairs retain their original khaki vinyl upholstery, the period-correct material that the group was originally specified with for institutional settings. The white fiberglass shells show minor scuffs and chips consistent with five decades of existence, honest vintage condition that we've noted accurately. The Lucite bases are intact and the structural integrity is excellent throughout.
The matching coffee table follows the same design language: white lacquered fiberglass base with a mirrored glass top. The mirror shows the kind of age marks and clouding that comes from decades of use, visible in the photos and noted honestly.
Price is for the 2 lounge chairs + coffee table set. We have also a set composed of 1 sofa + another coffee table. Inquire if you want to purchase the full set as it comes with a discount.
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– Timeless Collection
Carefully curated vintage furniture chosen for enduring design, quality craftsmanship, and character that never goes out of style.
Skovby Møbelfabrik was founded in 1933 by Thorvald Rasmussen, a skilled cabinetmaker who built the company on a simple conviction: that furniture should be made to last, and that lasting furniture should also be beautiful. By the 1960s, Skovby had become one of Denmark's most respected furniture manufacturers, producing the kind of high-back teak dining chairs that now define the golden age of Danish mid-century design.
These six chairs have the characteristic elongated triangular backs with softly rounded corners and the tubular square teak frames that make the Skovby high-back immediately recognizable. The form is architectural without being severe, the tall back creates presence at a dining table, the proportions are generous without being heavy, and the teak frame has been left with its original patina intentionally. Not restored to a uniform new appearance, but refinished, stabilized, and allowed to show the honest warmth of sixty years well-lived.
The seats have been professionally reupholstered in grey fabric.
Price is for the set of 6.
Norway looked at the sofa and decided it wasn't doing enough. The result was the Montana: a solid teak frame, clean Scandinavian lines, and cushions so well engineered that "Stressless" isn't a brand name so much as a promise. This one is upholstered in camel leather, which is exactly the color you'd choose if you wanted a sofa to look like it cost twice what you paid for it. Low, wide, and quietly commanding.
A 1960s extendable round teak dining table by Laurits M. Larsen for Møbelfabrik A/S, one of the more versatile and practical pieces of Danish mid-century furniture design.
Laurits M. Larsen was a Danish furniture maker whose work consistently demonstrated the qualities the period is known for: honest use of materials, precise joinery, and a design sensibility that prioritized how a piece actually functions in a home over purely decorative considerations. This table is a good example of that thinking.
Closed, it's a round table at 49 inches in diameter, the right size for four people and compact enough for smaller dining rooms, breakfast rooms, or kitchen spaces. Each of the two leaves adds 21 inches, extending the table to 91 inches fully open, enough to seat eight comfortably. The transition from intimate round table to generous dining surface is what makes this format so enduringly practical, and why Danish extendable tables of this type remain in constant demand.
The teak top has the warm, even grain that characterises well-selected Danish production wood of the 1960s. The surface is in excellent condition, there are a couple of minor scuffs visible in the photos, noted honestly, but no watermarks, staining, or damage. The extension mechanism works smoothly and both leaves fit flush with no visible gap or color mismatch.
It would pair naturally with the Erik Buch Model 49 floating seat chairs also available in our shop, both Danish, both teak, both 1960s.
– Bold Collection
Curated vintage furniture selected for striking design, confident forms, expressive color, and character that refuses to blend in.
Nobody knows who designed these, and honestly that just makes them more interesting. Armless, deeply cushioned, low-slung, with a rounded back and a stepped upholstered base that looks like it was sketched by someone who had just finished watching too much Miami Vice and didn't think that was a problem. Completely reupholstered in acid yellow-green velvet that has absolutely no interest in going unnoticed. The best part: push them together and they become a sofa. Pull them apart and they're two separate statements.
A vintage cast aluminum soliflore vase in matte silver, a simple, well-proportioned form that doesn't ask for much attention but holds it naturally.
The shape is a classic soliflore: a wide, flattened spherical base that tapers into a long, narrow cylindrical neck. The proportions are good, the base is generous enough to anchor the piece visually, and the neck is long enough to give a single stem real presence. The aluminum is cast rather than spun, which gives it a slightly heavier, more considered feel than the thinner pressed-metal vases of the same period. The matte finish has developed a subtle patina, not polished, not corroded, just the natural aging of uncoated aluminum.
There's no maker's mark. The form is consistent with Scandinavian or Italian production of the 1960s–1970s, when designers in both traditions were experimenting seriously with aluminum as a material for domestic objects.
It works with a single stem, a branch, a dried flower, a poppy, or as a purely sculptural object on a shelf or surface.
A William Andrus sofa and matching coffee table from the Steelcase Soft Seating Group, 1972, the sofa version of one of the most awarded American furniture designs of the Space Age period.
The Soft Seating Group won the top design award for institutional furniture and innovative use of materials in 1972. Andrus's stated intention was the contrast between hard and soft, the white lacquered fiberglass shell appears to float on its transparent Lucite base, while the upholstered cushions provide the human warmth the fiberglass deliberately withholds. It's a sophisticated design idea executed with real precision.
The sofa retains its original khaki vinyl upholstery. The white fiberglass shell shows minor scuffs and chips throughout, honest vintage condition consistent with a piece that has lived in the world for over fifty years. The Lucite base is intact and the structure is sound. The matching coffee table has the same white fiberglass base with a mirrored glass top that shows age marks and clouding visible in the photos.
Price is for the sofa + coffee table set. We have also a set composed of 2 lounge chairs + another coffee table. Inquire if you want to purchase the full set as it comes with a discount.
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Meet the Founder
I’m Francesca—Italian woman living in Chicago, with an eye for design and a passion for finding diamonds in the rough. I’m interested in well-made vintage furniture with personality, pieces that stand the test of time and allow your home to start a conversation about you.
The name? When I say "Wood," it comes out sounding like "Vood," so I made it official. This business? It's me giving myself permission to chase what I've always loved. I hunt 19th and 20th-century furniture with stories, character, and standout style. Just like these pieces get a second (or third, or fourth, or fifth) act, I'm building mine too. One find at a time.
