The Best Places To Buy Vintage Furniture In Palma De Mallorca

Vintage furniture is big business across most of Europe these days, and although the choice of places to shop in Mallorca is still relatively limited, this is changing rapidly. With a heavy expat Scandinavian influence, and many people furnishing second homes and rental apartments and villas across the island, interest in vintage design is certainly on the up. Since many smaller businesses – and sometimes even bigger ones – in Mallorca don’t have websites, it’s not always easy to find the places to go, so we’ve done the leg-work for you and come up with the best places to find that perfect piece of vintage furniture in the island’s capital.

1. Viveca

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This small but fantastic shop was once a garage, and is located in a quaint mews right in the heart of Palma’s old town. Interior designer Inigo Guell and his family relocated from Madrid to open Viveca, which has had mentions from Spanish Vogue and Architectural Digest (AD). Beautifully curated, the shop sells an eclectic mix of vintage design pieces, secondhand furniture and decorative items, as well as new pottery, hand-carved wooden items, baskets and linens, sourced from the family’s travels. The setting and the lovingly picked selection of new, rustic, and perfectly worn secondhand items makes for a fantastic photograph, so even if you can’t actually visit, the shop’s Instagram page is worth following.

2. Frida Watson Vintage

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Located in the fashionable Santa Catalina neighbourhood, Frida Watson Vintage is a real feast for the eyes if you are a fan of mid-century furniture. Think sleek Danish chairs, tables and sideboards, beautifully upholstered sofas, vintage print cushions, and walls adorned with Vitra clocks. Prices are steep, so it’s not somewhere to shop if you are bargain hunting or on a limited budget, but they do have an excellent selection and also sell a few smaller (and thus cheaper) homeware items. Immaculately laid out, and usually with a very enticing window display, this store also has an excellent website so you can also browse online.

3. Tony Malony

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A fun shop to look around, and a great place to find that quirky one-off piece you previously had no idea you just had to have, Tony Malony sells a fantastically eclectic array of vintage furniture, random objects and artworks. Industrial-style shelves are laden with retro toys, ethnic sculptures and vintage tins and suitcases, while furniture ranges from beautifully weathered, rustic, wooden cabinets to sleek, stylised mid-century European chairs. In amongst the vintage finds, there are also some new pieces, from contemporary art to Spanish-design chairs. The shop is located in Palma’s hip Santa Catalina neighbourhood, and as well as a cool website their blog is really worth following.