Tuesday, March 1, 2011

San Diego Modern

We spent last weekend in San Diego. Had originally planned to go to the Cincinnati modern show but just couldn't quite bring ourselves to fly north in the middle of winter. So we headed to sunny southern California instead. It turned out there are quite a few midcentury modern shops in the area, so we got our midcentury fix. For anyone else planning a trip there, I just thought I'd list them for you.

All of the following deal in original vintage furniture-

Along Park Blvd.-

The Atomic Bazaar
3816 Park Blvd.
619-534-8397
Wed-Sat 12-6
Sun 12-5

Mid-Century Design
3795 Park Blvd.
619-295-4832
Wed-Sat 12-6
Sun 12-4

Design/One
3789 1/2 Park Blvd.
619-501-2057

Near Little Italy and only a few blocks from where you pick up your rental car from the airport-

Klassic
989 W. Kalmia St.
619-640-6995

Boomerang for Modern
2475 Kettner Blvd.
619-239-2040
Mon-Sat 11:30-5

There is also a nice little antique mall on Kettner -

Antiques on Kettner
2400 Kettner
619-234-3332
Closed Tues, open 10-6 Wed-Mon

And there is a fabulous architectural salvage place on Kettner as well. Didn't see anything very modern but a great place for architectural/ design junkies to visit nevertheless-

Architectural Salvage
2401 Kettner
Tues-Sat 10-6
Mon, Sun 11-5

And one new place dealing in contemporary modern stuff-

Mixture
mixturehome.com
2210 Kettner Blvd.
619-239-4788

And one last place, a teeny little store in a different neighborhood but with cool vintage stuff-

Nest Vintage
830 25th St.
619-756-7491
Tues-Sat 11-7
Sun 12-5

Happy shopping!