Like any good Brooklynite, the Flea proudly touts its local roots any and all the time. But we know that sustaining a market like this over the long haul (every Sunday!) means creating access to stuff you just can't get around here—Connecticut, upstate, Pennsylvania, Western Massachussetts, faraway places like that.
Take Colonia, one of the zillions of antiques shops along Warren Street in Hudson, NY. They'll be at opening day to try out the Flea, but we have a sense their mix of modern and country furniture and smaller items will bring 'em back sooner than later. Former Brooklynite Sarah Stoudt, whose snazzy design/crafts shop Birch opened recently in Catskill, NY, will be coming down every Sunday to dispense with her pesky collection of handpicked items found around the region.
In a nice twist, Karen and Amy from newly launched ama home will be culling furniture and other pieces from homes they're renovating upstate and selling them (sometimes modernized) at the Flea. Cool. And from further north, Salvage Fest veterans Fred and Camille from Silver Fox will be transporting truckloads of architectural salvage, reclaimed wood and antiques down from Albany for your decorating pleasure.
We're really into the folks at ReproDepot Fabrics, from the "other" Hamptons in Western Mass., who will be cutting bolts of their huge range of vintage and vintage-reproduction textiles (right, top) onsite every week at the Flea, in the Design*Sponge section. And in addition to reupholsterer Chairloom from outside Philadelphia, we'll have Philly's own Merchant Army, an upstart vintage housewares and furniture vendor with all kinds of affordable '50s and '60s stuff (right, bottom).
Onward and upward (and northward and westward).
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It's only a little more than a month away until this takes off. Our resident artist, Amy Pollicino, has been busy painting vintage and antique mirrors, columns, old piano parts to enhance our incredible line of home decor from salvaged material. We are nicknaming it our Brooklyn Line. Today, we disassembled a 32 foot carved room wooden archway. This is perfect for that restaurant needing old world ambiance. We carry a wide variety of decorative architectural salvage (sorry, no sinks, tubs or plain doors & windows). Please visit our website and let us know if want us to bring down a particular item. Thanks. Fred and Camille from Silver Fox
Posted by: guest at March 3, 2008 9:36 PM
So the folks from upstate are going to bring their wares to New York City and raise the prices to city prices. No thanks. I'd rather go upstate and find real bargains and interesting items for my home and not what the sellers think New Yorkers want to put in their homes.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 6:19 AM
welcome upstaters -
this is what you get with an upstate person
-nice
-friendly
-well meaning
-good work ethic
-and a person who is considerate of others
that probably sounds odd to the downstaters but it's
100% true
I hope they make boat loads of money at the Flea and then they will go home and either save it or spend it wisely.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 7:26 AM
To the person who thinks we are going to raise our prices and pigeon holes us is dead wrong. They are listed on our website and are the same prices as people pay in Albany. What we personally are hoping for is volume. We already do a great business and we are banking on the fact that NY salvage companies sell things for much more than we do because the NY overhead is so high.
So my suggestion to you is come down first and like an intelligent person, gather information before making a decision.
Fred and Camille from Silver Fox.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:07 PM
Fred and Camille from Silver Fox,
I posted my opinion about the upstate sellers and about a practice that is all-too-common in New York City -- check out the prices at the Ft. Greene farmer's market if you need an example.
There's no need to be petty and cast aspersions on my intelligence.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 9:15 PM
Fred Shapiro and Camille Gibeau of Silver Fox:
I posted my opinion about the upstate sellers and about a practice that is all-too-common in New York City -- check out the prices at the Ft. Greene farmer's market if you need an example.
There's no need to be petty and cast aspersions on my intelligence.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 9:16 PM
Regarding the farmers, that's a whole separate issue. They get up at 4 am, pick what they sell, load it on the truck, drive down to Brooklyn, unload, sell it, load it up again and then drive back, feed the leftovers to the animals and tend to the farm and they make a few hundred for the day if they are lucky. You have no concept of how hard they work for so little money. Even if they make a thousand a day x two for a short season --- big deal. If you want fresh picked fruit and veggies, you have to pay for it. What does a meal cost in a NY restaurant for two? Any probably most of that isn't so fresh.
As for driving upstate yourself to find bargains, that can be fun, but by the time you spend gas and tolls to save $20.00 on a mirror you are out over a hundred.
What I'm trying to do is get you to think, not insult your intelligence. Blanketing a response that all upstaters are going to raise their prices in not an intelligent statement. It is not the same as saying you are not intelligent. It's like any ism on a consumer level.
Stop down and say hi on April 6th. I'm sure we have more in common than you think.
Fred from Silver Fox
Posted by: guest at March 5, 2008 11:59 AM
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