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Antiques What’s an antique? In Ann Arbor, it could be anything from a seventeenth-century sideboard with a pedigree to a Baby Boomer collectible like a Partridge Family lunch box. At one end of the spectrum, the Arcadian, in Nickels Arcade, and Arcadian Too, on Main, sell furniture from centuries past and exquisite dinnerware. At the other end are shops like About Time Antiques & Collectibles in Dixboro, which offers fun retro cool in the form of funky 1950s lamps, Dansk peppermills, and low-slung sofas. Also, in Dixboro, Gibbons Antiques has a surprising dual inventory of nautical memorabilia and antique buttons. Furniture and other interesting finds abound at Hofmann’s Furniture on South State. The selection at Such a Find, in the Georgetown Mall, ranges from Danish Modern furniture to a bust of Cuauhtémoc, last of the Aztec emperors. In Lamp Post Plaza is European antiques importer Cambridge House. Treasure Mart, near Kerrytown, is where locals sell everything from flawlessly restored period pieces to junkyard kitsch on consignment. Garage Sale Gallery, on Jackson, is equal parts antiques and yard sale finds. And then there are fusion shops like Objet d’Art, on Federal Boulevard off Stadium, which sells European antiques as well as stunning floral arrangements and art, and Red Shoes, on Ashley, a sentimental shop offering vintage collectibles and new textiles.
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