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| Disclaimer: The listing of a commercial website below does not necessarily mean that I recommend buying from it, or have any experience of buying from it. I only provide links so that you can browse for ideas and information. | |
| A Shop 4 Antiques | Collectibles including Depression Glass, 50s-70s Glass, Tiara Exclusives Glass, Books on Collecting Tiara Sandwich Glass, Cookbooks, Costume Jewelry, Casino Ashtrays, Vintage Ceramics, Restaurant China, and more. |
| A-Z of Stoke-on-Trent Potters | Very useful reference site |
| Aardewerk en zo | Dutch ceramics |
| Antika.Nu | Extensive range of Swedish retro glass, ceramics and other items for sale |
| Antiques Directory | Site with a wealth of information about antiques hunting in the UK |
| Aussie Bottle Digger | Australian bottle collector's site |
| Barkcloth Hawaii - Hawaiian Fabrics | Tropical Vintage, 50's motifs for retro home decor, sewing & crafting design. Upholstery, drapery & apparel fabrics for your fifties fashions. Extensive page of retro links. |
| Basz Design | Bas is a Dutch designer, based in France. He makes very contemporary styled porcelain ware. The complete collection is on the site |
| Becker Street Antiques | Oregon-based antiques sellers with a wide range of interesting stock including Art Deco, Bakelite jewelry and Black Americana |
| Books About Antiques | This link leads to books on antique and retro ceramics |
| Bottles & Bygones | Great UK bottle site |
| Camp Barbara | Lots of nice retro things, including furniture and glass, in this UK site |
| Capriolus | Superb site specialising in post-war Dutch ceramics, with database on potteries and studios. |
| Ceramic Collection and Archive | Very interesting site about studio and craft potteries in the UK |
| Chance Glass | David's excellent site about the company that made those famous handkerchief vases, and the Fiesta glassware. |
| Collectics | Great directory of collecting sites |
| Collector's Guide | Comprehensive site of collecting links and information |
| Cornish Ware.biz | Retroselect believes this site to be the best out there for Cornish Ware collectors. For a start, they go to great lenghts to describe minor condition issues in the rare pieces that they have for sale (if only all eBay sellers were like this?). To use the favorite eBay word, their range of TG Green for sale is STUNNING!!! They also give a lot of background info and details of backstamps. See also their site Vintage Kitsch described below. |
| Cornish Ware Search | Another super Cornish Ware site, with very accurate condition descriptions |
| Dejavu Design | Nice collection of mainly Dutch retro items for sale, with Dutch and in English text. |
| Design / 365 | Swedish designer directory ... in Swedish, but with great photos. |
| Demosmobilia | Ultra-cool swiss site with modern design for sale |
| Denby China Find | A friendly site in England for replacement Denby Pottery pieces |
| Designaddict.com | Index of designers |
| Design20c | Diverse retro products |
| Designhandlung | Fabulously designed retro site with high quality items |
| Dutch Collectibles | Includes many Dutch retro objects and a lexicon of Dutch designers |
| Dutch Tiles | Superb photo gallery |
| Eureka, I Found It! | Vintage costume jewelry, fabrics, and collectibles, at affordable prices. |
| Fiftie Fiftie | Great Belgium-based site: "The # 1 European modern arts & antiques site, daily updates, ever changing stock, free advertising, many links" |
| Fifties.Style | Great site with some stunning and rare fifties lighting, fabrics and accessories |
| Fishware |
Some mouth-watering photos of a wonderful Crown Devon / Shorter fishware collection. Not a lot of people know this, but TV personality Janet Street-Porter collects this range. |
| Flower en power | From the same people as Glas-design.nl, and with a range of retro Dutch and other ceramics, plastics, lighting etc. |
| Fragile Design | Stunningly designed site with postwar design for sale. They also have a shop in Birmingham, England |
| Freaky Furniture and More | A webshop with 20th Century vintage furniture, lighting and accessories |
| Frhapsody | Beautifully designed site with a large range of retro pieces |
| German Pottery Marks | As the name says ... |
| Get Back-Design | With (mainly) Dutch retro ceramics, lighting and a whole load of interesting objects for sale. |
| Ginfor's Odditiques | Wonderful and very individualistic retro/antiques site |
| Glas-design.nl | Very nice site with a range of Scandinavian and other glass |
| GlassEye.com | Site about European glass with some really nice pictures and very useful information about this personal collection. If only all glass and ceramics websites were like this: well-designed, interesting, informative, and crisply-written. Recommended (*****) |
| Gods | Swedish design |
| GOMOD | Comprehensive site with a huge range of resources for retro collectors |
| Gordon Holme | Beautiful site on Hornsea, including items for sale and links. Includes tableware replacement service. |
| Gouda-Design | British collectors of traditional Gouda |
| Harpo Antiek | Site of Dutch ceramics for sale |
| Hi+LoModern | US and European retro |
| High Rise Modern | Great site with post war goodies for sale |
| Hippy Buggs Mall | Shopping with a "Hippy" flair. Check out groovy eBay listings, or shop our extensive mall of 800+ online stores. We provide a leisurely fun atmosphere to shop & have a FAR OUT! time while visiting. |
| Hornseamania | Wide range of Hornsea stock |
| Hornsea Pottery | Very nice photos of rare items with also a chat room, Hornsea news and events page |
| Hornsea Pottery (Terry and Val's site) | Useful resource with Hornsea for sale! |
| International Ceramic Directory | Many useful links |
| Kijk Nou Eens Curiosa | Site with some really nice Dutch retro for sale, all in easily accessible thumbnails. Kijk nou eens is Dutch for "Have a look!". |
| Lost City Arts | Great New York site with objects - mainly furniture - from the 30s to 60s. Also a spectacular and innovative links page: never seen one so nicely done before |
| Mama Wiskas | Mama Wiskas has a really ecclectic range of retro items, accessories, fabrics; well worth a visit. |
| Marcomodernariato | Some really funky things from a dealer in Turin |
| Midwinter Directory | Extremely valuable reference site giving a large number of photos of different Midwinter patterns and styles |
| Millennium Collectables | Excellent range of English retro for sale |
| Modern Abode | Very nice site with a wide range of quality, well-chosen modern-retro collectibles and interior furnishings for sale |
| ModNorthWest.com | Treasure house of retro goodies |
| Monimania | New York-based site with funky, retro, hip items For sale. Clothes, purses, ashtrays, bar items, shoes, toys, accessories, lamps, books & more. |
| Mum Had That.com | Retro site |
| Museum of London Ceramics and Glass Catalogue | With interesting articles and photos covering such topics as Fulham stoneware and Whitefriars glass |
| Myott Collector's Club | Very professional and informative site about Myott. Includes Myott art deco, as well as some of the lesser-known retro from that factory. |
| Nirvanafurniture.com | Mixed range of retro |
| www.nopinkcarpet.com | Extensive UK site with ceramics and glass for sale, and details of forthcoming UK antiques fairs |
| North Breeze | NorthBreeze provides vintage, out of print, and discontinued sewing patterns. We also provide knitting, crochet, needlework and craft patterns. Other offerings include vintage and costume jewelry, custom portraits, and e-commerce software. We ship anywhere in the world. |
| de Oude Schicht | Impressive site with Dutch ceramics, and books on this subject, for sale |
| Outernational | Nice site with a range of retro continental European ceramics for sale |
| Owen Collectibles | Wonderfully ecclectic range of collectibles including Wade Whimsies |
| Panton, Verner | All about the master designer |
| Pips Trip | UK site specialising in retro glassware from the most collectable factories. Also with Continental retro glass. |
| Plastifile.com | Great site for retro plastics |
| Plateel.nl | Outstanding site with lots of information about Dutch potteries and backstamps. Recommended (*****) |
| Poikilia Decorative Arts | Poole, Troika, Whitefriars and other goodies |
| Porcelain Marks | Porcelain marks, surprisingly. |
| Portmeirion | Company site, but including a valuable gallery of the older styles. |
| Post War Design | Wide range of retro items |
| PotteryGlass.com | Super Swedish site with Scandinavian ceramics and glass for sale; very nice picture galleries. |
| Pottery HQ | Site with extensive links and listings of international ceramics for sale |
| PotteryMarks.co.uk | Huge database of UK pottery marks |
| The Pottery Identification Website | Site with helpful links and a focus on SylvaC. |
| Pottery Studio | Outstanding site with information about potters and potteries |
| Pure Design Classics | Retro collectables |
| E. Radford | Excellent collector's site on the works of the English factory E. Radford |
| Ravelli | Detailed site covering the production of this classic kitsch/retro ceramics factory based near Leiden, The Netherlands, that closed in 1977 |
| Regout Pastel | Stunning website on the pastel-coloured Dutch pottery of Petrus Regout (Maastricht). A lesson in how to design Websites, too. |
| Site about the Dutch Pottery | |
| retro design | Great French site with Panton era goodies for sale. |
| RetroDuck.com | Amazing site with a wide variety of retro design T-shirts |
| Retromoderndesign | One of the best sites for buying Swedish design. No description of condition, unfortunately. |
| Retrosellers | Very comprehensive site with a diverse range of articles on subjects including nostalgia, and a directory. Obviously a labour of love. See also their ultra cool site on British pop culture in the sixties www.sixtiespop.com |
| Richard Wallis Antiks | UK based, and one of the best dealers in Scandinavian ceramics. Unlike those based in the US, this person does not inflate his prices. |
| Robot1968.com | Amazing site about those retro tin robots from Japan and elsewhere. Items for sale, forums, etc. |
| St. Judes | Beautiful fifties-style fabrics including some reminiscent of Midwinter ceramics patterns |
| Scandinavian Accents | Scandinavian art glass and pottery, sculptures, art-deco, retro, modernism and more. |
| Sgrafo Modern | Great site about a very little-known German factory that began in the 1950s and produced characteristic textured porcelain in the organic modernism style. |
| Speers, Jim | Potter's website with many pottery links |
| Stoke-on-Trent (thepotteries.org) | Extremely useful information site about many English factories |
| Stoke Ceramics Information Sheets | |
| Studio Pottery | Excellent site with information on studio pottery and potters |
| Swiet Vintage | All kinds of interesting 2nd hand wannahaves from the past century, based in The Netherlands |
| SylvaC Collectors Circle | Site with SylvaC for sale, books, and club membership. |
| The Funk House Las Vegas | Great site with retro for sale |
| Tip Top Atomic Shop | Milwaukee-based shop with wonderful 50s stuff |
| Tokyostory | Groovy retro furniture shop in Spain! |
| Tribu Design | Browsable database of 20th Century design classics |
| Trojan Horse Antiques | Wide range of ceramics and other antiques, with links page and books list |
| unserezeitreise.de | Seventies decorative and household items for sale |
| vestigio.com | Stunning site of retro goodies - incredible webdesign, too! |
| Vintage Kitsch | This is an eBay page with an ever changing selection of retro things from the people who run Cornishware.biz website (see above). Very diverse, but often includes Cornish Ware. Temptation.... |
| Whitefriars.com | Fabulous site about the famous glassmakers. This is a beautifully designed, free community site. |
| Wommpomm.com | Great new site with loads of UK retro ceramics for sale, including lots of Sylvac |
| Zebra Design | Italian site with diverse retro! Watch out especially for the Italian plastics (Artemide, Guzzini and others) |
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