Technically, the term antique refers to anything that is at least 100 years old; however, the term is widely used to describe beautiful pieces from a bygone era. Brisbane is a treasure trove of items from every era you can imagine.
The Woolloongabba Antique Precinct has over a dozen antique stores in one location. The street even has an antique feel, with old fashioned street lights and retro eateries.
Woolloongabba Antique Centre (
22 Wellington Road) is Brisbane's largest antique store and stocks everything from furniture to fashion to kitsch to art;
Twice Upon a Time Antiques (
31 Logan Road) offers a range of furniture, crockery and home wares from England and Australia;
addVintage (
27 Nile Street) presents a quirky collection of modern and Eames-esque furniture and
Harrington Antiques (
165 Logan Road) specialises in art.
For rare and first edition books, Archives Fine Books (
40 Charlotte Street, Brisbane City) is the place to go, with 50 000 volumes spread out over two massive floors. Archives stocks fiction, non-fiction, comics, Bibles, sheet music and any other version of the written word you can imagine.
Lose yourself exploring Brisbane's antique gems.
