Bond & Bowery: vintage site, the second time around

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Mea culpa: In my recent story about vintage and secondhand furniture shopping websites, I neglected the rather wonderful Bond & Bowery. (Full transparency: The site’s founder Ben Spaisman alerted me to the error of my ways.)

Bond & Bowery launched in 2007 as a more searchable and affordable alternative to the high-end site 1stdibs. Spaisman expects to have 180 sellers by the end of the year. For those concerned about the high price of shipping, nearly two dozen dealers are local, offering antiques and midcentury modern.

Some sellers, such as Empiric in Los Angeles, also sell new furniture designs alongside vintage finds. Items currently on the site include, from left: two Evelyn Ackerman-designed hand-hooked wool tapestries, $1,400; a 12-bulb chrome Helix table lamp designed in the 1970s, $195; and a pair of brass-trimmed John Widdicomb nightstands refinished in jungle-green lacquer, $690 each.

-- David A. Keeps

Photo credits: Bond & Bowery