Retrovagance©
Loft-Style & Vintage Technology Decor
Join our technology trip down Memory Lane!
Immerse yourself in the vintage industrial ambience of our decor! Discover (y)our love for technical products of the past!
Since the 19th century, in the course of industrialization, working and living spaces had increasingly been (out)fitted with (electro)technical products: all sorts of items, devices, appliances and instruments - now doomed to obsolescence and sinking into oblivion.
Ironically, it is their retro-mechanical magic that, trend-labelled as `loft` or `vintage`, makes many a modern interior design. In today‘s furnituring, however, charmless counterfeits control the market.
This is where we come in: Real old technical objects, genuine, gently refurbished, generate our unique style.
We nearly exclusively rely on authentic parts - we search, acquire, collect, refeel, reimagine, restore, remake, rearrange...and reoffer them.
Apart from being decorative and eye-catching, our items create fantasy worlds we invite you to get lost in...
The old typewriter
Made to feed your fantasy: Who wrote, where from, which lines, what message, in poetry or prose, with anxious or happy feelings, to whom it may whenever have concerned?
The old theatre spotlight on its even older wooden tripod
To beam or not to beam? That is (not) the (only) question! Who tread the boards bathed in its light? Whose tears flew in the crowd?
The old factory lamp
Where were the sites it shone its wavering whitish light down on? What was produced? Who worked there? Was it the morning or the graveyard shift?
The old wall clock
Whose time came when its bells tolled?
The shabby chic old suitcase
Once packed to leave or to return?
What was in it?
Who travelled?
Where to?
When?
The old electric fan
Where did its blades rotate? To chill whose love or hate?
The old camera
Whatever sad, serious, soft or slapstick scenes were shot?
The old radio
Which speeches were delivered? Which melodies were played?
The old speaker
Who listened to the crackling sound?
The old telephone
Was the dog and bone the bearer of good or bad tidings?
Weave the wildest whys and wherefores…
Our articles accentuate their vintage industrial character. They all undergo careful though decent reconditioning, keep their authentic patina and stay true to themselves by remaining what they once were. We conserve their classic charm for your contemporary comfort.
Sets trump singles - that’s why we care about combinations and collections of old-time objects as they would have matched back in the day.
Have an appetite for yesterday’s technical style kitchen? We serve old-tech specialities, prepared from aged appliances, garnished and refined with retro dreams… You are very welcome to add your own vintage visions.
Our creations‘ preferred whereabouts are residential lofts, loft apartments, hotels, lounges, bars, doctors' or lawyers' offices, showrooms, event locations, film sets and, well, just any vintage-loving living or working room, as their residents, users, guests, customers or visitors (will) share our passion for the presence of the past.