The Most Stylish Second Hand Furniture Stores in Melbourne

Melbourne has a knack for making buying new furniture feel entirely unnecessary. Across Collingwood workshops, Brunswick showrooms, online drops and sprawling suburban warehouses, the city is stacked with pre-loved pieces far more interesting than anything arriving flat-packed.

And second-hand doesn’t have to mean cheap and cheerful. Melbourne’s best vintage furniture stores span restored Scandinavian icons, chrome-and-leather ’70s statements, farmhouse tables, design oddities, genuine antiques and deadset bargains waiting under a layer of dust. Buying pre-loved keeps good design in circulation, gives your home more personality and, if you know where to look, can turn furniture shopping into a very satisfying treasure hunt.

From serious collectors to Saturday rummagers, these are Melbourne’s best second-hand and vintage furniture stores to know.

For Serious Design Hunters

Rex at The History

Rex has little interest in furniture that has merely survived. At THE HISTORY Mid Century Furniture and Contemporary Art, original mid-century pieces sourced from Scandinavia, Italy and Germany arrive in Collingwood before heading into the onsite workshop for meticulous restoration. The ever-changing collection spans Danish timber, Italian leather, sculptural lounge chairs and chrome-heavy design icons, with names including Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl and Jørn Utzon appearing through the archive. Be prepared to reconsider every chair you already own.

206 Wellington Street, Collingwood

Angelucci 20th Century

Angelucci 20th Century was backing mid-century design long before teak sideboards became Instagram shorthand. Dean Angelucci opened his first store in 1992, and three decades of sourcing now fill the Smith Street showroom with French, Italian, Scandinavian and Australian furniture, lighting, mirrors, ceramics and art. Restored Børge Mogensen daybeds might share the floor with Murano glass and one-off Italian finds, while its Melbourne workshop keeps original pieces looking their best. The team also makes its own Slimline and Hollywood sofas locally, making this one of Melbourne’s most authoritative addresses for 20th-century design.

113 Smith Street, Fitzroy

Grandfather’s Axe

There’s a philosophy hiding in the name Grandfather’s Axe. Founder Ed Klein borrowed it from the idea of an heirloom axe whose handle and head may both be replaced over time, yet somehow remains the same axe. Since 2009, he’s applied much the same thinking to vintage furniture, sourcing across Australia, Scandinavia and Europe before restoring pieces for decades more use. The Smith Street showroom spans Danish teak, Australian modernism, sculptural lighting and serious names including Hans J. Wegner and Kai Kristiansen, with plenty of lesser-known designers worth discovering too. This is furniture with history, not furniture pretending to have it.

360-364 Smith Street, Collingwood

Smith Street Bazaar

Twelve vintage dealers, decades of knowledge and some formidable design names share the floor at Smith Street Bazaar, Fitzroy’s oldest established vintage design collective. Australian heavyweights including Grant Featherston, Fred Ward and Paul Kafka sit alongside international names such as Gio Ponti, Florence Knoll and Percival Lafer, with lighting, art, mirrors and smaller curios filling the gaps between. It’s a broad, beautifully informed survey of 20th-century design, with enough variation between traders to keep every lap interesting.

305-307 Smith Street, Fitzroy

Red Rider Vintage

Red Rider Vintage has one foot in Scandinavia and the other firmly in Australian modernism. The Grey Street shop is particularly strong on Parker, FLER, Danish Deluxe and TH Brown, alongside Danish teak, rare dining chairs and magnificent sideboards that could swallow half your record collection. Its workshop is equally important, restoring tired timber furniture and reupholstering mid-century favourites for their next chapter. For anyone with a weakness for a ’60s daybed, this is dangerous territory.

105 Grey Street, St Kilda

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20th Century Scandinavia

Serious Scandi collectors know 20th Century Scandinavia is worth blocking out some time for. Its 600-square-metre Brunswick East warehouse is filled with original Danish, Swedish and Norwegian furniture, professionally restored after arriving in regular shipments from Denmark. Hans Wegner sofas, Arne Vodder sideboards, Niels Otto Møller dining tables and Ingmar Relling chairs are all part of the conversation, alongside lighting, mirrors and smaller homewares. New restorations hit the floor weekly, so the website is only a taste of what’s actually inside.

146 Weston Street, Brunswick East

Fabiano

Fabiano is catnip for anyone who knows their Featherston from their FLER. The Middle Park shop celebrates the best of Australian and European mid-century design, with sculptural lounge chairs, teak dining tables and beautifully preserved sofas joined by starburst clocks, Murano glass, West German ceramics and retro barware. Pieces date largely from the ’50s through to the ’70s, and there’s plenty here beyond the headline furniture names. Even the smallest objects have enough character to derail a minimalist phase.

111 Canterbury Road, Middle Park

Ten Past One Vintage 

Ten Past One Vintage has an eye for mid-century furniture that sits slightly outside the obvious. Alongside sleek timber tables and sideboards, you might find 1970s Italian dining chairs, postmodern leather seating, an enormous brass lamp or a locally made piece with serious design pedigree. Each item is individually sourced from Australian and international makers, so the collection shifts constantly without losing its point of view. Browse online first, then book into the Brunswick West showroom when something demands a closer inspection.

247 Melville Road, Brunswick West

For Cult Finds & One-Off Pieces

CCSS

CCSS began when Clare Lewis and Sonam Sherpa started hunting down furniture for their own Collingwood warehouse apartment and discovered they had a formidable eye for the good stuff. Today, their appointment-only Abbotsford showroom is stacked with one-off 20th-century finds sourced from around the world, spanning sculptural Italian sofas, French Art Deco cabinetry, Danish timber and wonderfully strange lighting and objects. Vico Magistretti, Alberto Rosselli and Charles Dudouyt are among the names currently passing through. Pieces move quickly, incoming finds can be reserved before they land, and a tailored sourcing service exists for the chair you’ve been fruitlessly hunting for everywhere else.

By appointment only

Rear of 375 Johnston Street, Abbotsford

Goodspace

Goodspace does the scrolling for anyone who loves vintage furniture but has no desire to spend Sunday night negotiating over a Marketplace sideboard. Founded by Holly Thompson in 2016, the Melbourne-based online store sources character-rich furniture and objects with a particular weakness for handsome timber, great sofas, sculptural seating and pieces that make a room feel collected rather than decorated. Fresh finds appear regularly across the website and Instagram, so keeping an eye on both is wise. The really good ones rarely need much convincing.

Based in Melbourne/Naarm

Ma House Supply Store

Ben Mooney has the eye of someone who has spent far too many hours trawling auctions, marketplaces and antique bazaars (jealous), which is excellent news for everyone else. Ma House Supply Store is his Collingwood edit of vintage furniture, sculptural objects, flowers and beautifully chosen new pieces, all arranged beneath the same roof as his photoshoot and events space, Ma House. A bulbous ’70s chair might sit beside an old timber table, strange little object or contemporary design piece, with no allegiance to a single era. It feels like one person’s taste rather than a formula, and that’s exactly why it works.

54 Johnston Street, Collingwood

Nook Vintage

There’s a distinctly more weathered flavour to Nook Vintage. Rachel and Gary favour farmhouse tables, industrial trolleys, old lockers, painted Depression-era furniture and timber pieces carrying decades of knocks, marks and patina. The pair have been sourcing together since Nook launched in 2010, and their Smith Street shop still changes constantly as new finds make their way onto the floor. It’s especially good for the piece that stops a room looking a little too new.

378 Smith Street, Collingwood

Mood Objects

Kalu Edmunds has a gift for finding furniture that makes everything else in the room look suddenly underdressed. At Mood Objects, that might mean a voluptuous ’70s Italian sofa, a Featherston modular, cult vintage IKEA or a hulking armchair newly dressed in velvet. Her Brunswick East showroom now mixes one-off vintage pieces with meticulous restorations and made-to-order sofas, giving the collection an increasingly distinctive point of view. New finds land fortnightly online, while the Nicholson Street space can be visited by appointment.

109 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East

Mrs. Secondhand

Mrs. Secondhand has been giving Melbourne furniture another life since 2000, long before buying pre-loved became an interiors flex. Its new Preston warehouse deals in all eras rather than one neat aesthetic, so a 1960s Australian sideboard might sit near a brass floor lamp, cane chair, home bar or wonderfully questionable ’80s dining suite. Prices span genuinely affordable finds and more covetable design pieces, while stock turns over constantly and almost everything can be browsed online first. A very easy tab to lose half an hour to.

Unit 7/188 Plenty Road, Preston

For the Thrill of the Hunt

Lost & Found Market

Give Lost & Found Market more time than you think you’ll need. What began with a handful of collectors inside an abandoned Collingwood nightclub in 2005 now fills roughly 1000 square metres above Brunswick Street. Wander between vintage dealers selling mid-century furniture, lamps, art, vinyl, fashion, books, kitchenalia and all manner of wonderfully unnecessary objects. Stock changes constantly and there’s no online store, so the good stuff still rewards showing up. Go looking for a lamp; leave mentally rearranging your living room around a 1970s armchair.

Upstairs, 288 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

Waverley Antique Bazaar

This is second-hand shopping with serious step-count potential. Waverley Antique Bazaar sprawls across a whopping 6000-square-metre Clayton warehouse, with more than 240 stallholders dealing in antiques, vintage furniture, art, lighting, records, books, clothing, jewellery and wonderfully strange collectables. There’s very little hand-holding, and that’s half the appeal: one aisle might hold a handsome mid-century sideboard, the next an eccentric lamp or something you didn’t know existed five minutes earlier. Give yourself a few hours, wear comfortable shoes and absolutely leave room in the boot.

88 Garden Road, Clayton

Retropolis

Subtlety has never entered the chat at Retropolis. More than 40 collectors fill its sprawling Preston warehouse with mid-century furniture, fantastic lighting, fashion, records, art, jewellery, curios and objects that defy easy categorisation. A 2024 expansion made the maze even bigger, adding 22 more stalls and another 350 square metres to explore. Some pieces are serious design finds, others are delightfully peculiar, and the sheer volume means no two laps look quite the same.

1 Newman Street, Preston 

Preston Vintage & Antiques 

There’s very little editing done for you at Preston Vintage & Antiques, and that’s exactly why it’s good. The sprawling Plenty Road warehouse is packed with furniture, lighting, homewares and collectables from the 1950s through to the 1980s, ranging from handsome mid-century pieces to wonderfully odd, low-cost finds. Stock turns over constantly, so the appeal is in scanning every corner and trusting your eye. One visit might uncover a teak sideboard; the next, a $40 lamp you’ll spend years bragging about.

407 Plenty Road, Preston

Retro Rehab

A single Tessa chair started Retro Rehab back in 2011, and the obsession has only deepened since. The Thornbury showroom now specialises in beautifully revived mid-century seating, particularly Australian names such as Tessa, Parker, Fler and TH Brown, alongside occasional Danish and British teak finds. Restoration is a big part of the appeal too, with tired chairs and sofas sympathetically re-upholstered for another few decades of service. Browse the current pieces online, or drop in on Saturday and prepare to develop surprisingly strong feelings about a swivel chair.

350 St Georges Road, Thornbury

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