Thomas I.
Jun 26, 2013
I was pulling into Bronco Burger across the street when I noticed a cool vintage bike outside this shop, and what appeared to be a new sign. I ventured across the street and discovered a terrific new antique store, open since maybe the first of June.A lot of antique stores have (a) crap and (b) stuff that isn't antique in any reasonable sense of the word. Not this place. Everything they have is well-curated and quite lovely. The basement has some mid-century stuff, but that's not my cup of tea, nor is it apparently the owners'. It's the upstairs that captures their sense of what antiques should be -- elegant, tasteful stuff that would be welcome in any well-to-do home, regardless of era.Right now Omaha (to my knowledge) doesn't have another antique shop quite like this. All the other stores in town have at least some measure of pure junk that no person of taste would want in their home. Not this place. My only fear is that they might sell a lot of their current inventory in the first few months and slowly begin diluting the quality that they've established at the start. We'll see.
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