Author: Charlie Kim

While cities across Canada are hosts to a large number of comics, toys and other collectibles/merchandise shows, in-between, scattered throughout the rural landscape, are antiques markets or smaller antique stores. Often situated on the outskirts of small towns, retrofitted barns and refurbished buildings are home to a slew of unwanted items that once belonged to someone, who most likely is no longer around. In fact, one store east of Toronto promotes their goods as “dead people’s stuff”, which to me has an unsettling tone about it. My previous employers would often go antique shopping during weekends. As designers, they...