BOOKS & EPHEMERA
Ampersand Cafe
& Bookshop
SYDNEY, NSW
Books & Ephemera
Ampersand Cafe & Bookshop
Thirty thousand books across three floors of a Paddington terrace on Oxford Street — pull one off the shelf, order the beef cheek pappardelle or a house-made chai, and pay for it on the way out if you can't put it down. The café runs all-day breakfast and is fully licensed. One of ten most beautiful book cafés in the world, per the 2025 Libraries Awards.
OP SHOP
Anglicare Op
Shop Epping
SYDNEY, NSW
Op Shop
Anglicare Op Shop Epping
Anglicare Op Shop Epping is an op shop (charity thrift store) in Epping, New South Wales, offering secondhand clothing, homewares, books, and bric-a-brac at bargain prices. Particularly known for books and kitchenware bargains. A treasure hunt for bargain seekers, where every purchase supports charitable community programs.
BOOKS & EPHEMERA
Berkelouw Books
Paddington
SYDNEY, NSW
Books & Ephemera
Berkelouw Books Paddington
Berkelouw Books Paddington is a bookshop and ephemera dealer in Paddington, New South Wales, specialising in secondhand books, vintage prints, maps, postcards, and paper ephemera. Particularly known for secondhand and rare books with rooftop cafe. Book lovers can spend hours exploring shelves stacked with out-of-print titles, rare editions, and fascinating paper ephemera. In the leafy streets of Paddington, known for its terrace houses, galleries, and Saturday markets.
MARKET
Carriageworks Farmers
Market
SYDNEY, NSW
Market
Carriageworks Farmers Market
Carriageworks Farmers Market is a market in Eveleigh, New South Wales, bringing together a mix of vintage, antique, handmade, and pre-loved goods from independent stallholders. Particularly known for artisan food, vintage, design. A lively weekend outing with stalls to browse, food to enjoy, and the thrill of discovering one-of-a-kind finds.
ART & OBJECTS
Curatorial+Co
SYDNEY, NSW
Art & Objects
Curatorial+Co
Sophie Vander's gallery on William Street, Woolloomooloo occupies 300 square metres and runs a deliberate program: 80% of its roster identifies as female. Founded online in 2015 before opening in Redfern in 2020, Curatorial+Co places work beyond its own walls — in residential, commercial and public spaces — through an in-house consultancy. The focus is emerging and mid-career artists finding serious collectors.
BOOKS & EPHEMERA
Goulds Book
Arcade
SYDNEY, NSW
Books & Ephemera
Goulds Book Arcade
Goulds Book Arcade is a bookshop and ephemera dealer in Newtown, New South Wales, specialising in secondhand books, vintage prints, maps, postcards, and paper ephemera. Particularly known for over two million books in a labyrinthine space. Book lovers can spend hours exploring shelves stacked with out-of-print titles, rare editions, and fascinating paper ephemera. Set in the eclectic heart of Newtown, a neighbourhood renowned for its vintage shopping strip along King Street.
MARKET
Kirribilli Markets
SYDNEY, NSW
Market
Kirribilli Markets
Since January 1976, this harbourside market has grown from a Kirribilli Neighbourhood Centre backyard to 220 stalls spread across a former bowling green and the Burton Street tunnel beneath the Bridge. Fashion, jewellery, plants, gourmet food, emerging local designers — proceeds fund the Centre's community programs. The setting, a short walk from the north pylon, does most of the heavy lifting.
ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES
Mitchell Road Antique
& Design Centre
SYDNEY, NSW
Antiques & Collectables
Mitchell Road Antique & Design Centre
Lyn Richardson founded this warehouse antique centre two decades ago in Alexandria's big yellow building on Mitchell Road before relocating to a 2,300-square-metre space on Bourke Road. Industrial relics, mid-century furniture, lighting, jewellery, vintage fashion and Americana are all in the mix — the kind of place where film crews also come to source props.
VINTAGE FURNITURE & HOMEWARES
Mr Pinchy
and Co
SYDNEY, NSW
Vintage Furniture & Homewares
Mr Pinchy and Co
Mr Pinchy and Co is a vintage furniture shop in Marrickville, New South Wales, specialising in mid-century modern furniture, retro homewares, and vintage decor. Particularly known for mid-century Danish, Australian modernist. Browse showroom floors filled with restored sideboards, dining settings, armchairs, and lighting from the 1950s through the 1980s. In Marrickville, part of Sydney's thriving inner-west vintage and creative scene.
MARKET
Paddington Markets
Sydney
SYDNEY, NSW
Market
Paddington Markets Sydney
Open every Saturday since 1973, this Paddington Uniting Church initiative spreads across 150-odd stalls: local fashion designers, jewellers, soap and candle makers, bonsai sellers, a food court. One of Sydney's longest-running weekly markets, it operates as a not-for-profit — the entry fee goes somewhere useful.
VINTAGE CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES
Potts Point
Vintage
SYDNEY, NSW
Vintage Clothing & Accessories
Potts Point Vintage
Arnie Kieldgaard's vintage shop in Potts Point, stocking designer pieces — YSL, Ferragamo, Moschino, Gabriela Hearst — alongside antique flapper dresses and military memorabilia. Featured on Antiques Downunder, visited by everyone from Stan Grant to Clover Moore, and included on Kings Cross vintage walking tours. Debi Mazar wore one of his pieces on Madonna's Italian tour. The kind of shop where you go in for a browse and leave with a story.
OP SHOP
Red Cross
Mosman
SYDNEY, NSW
Op Shop
Red Cross Mosman
Red Cross Mosman is an op shop (charity thrift store) in Mosman, New South Wales, offering secondhand clothing, homewares, books, and bric-a-brac at bargain prices. Particularly known for designer labels from the North Shore. A treasure hunt for bargain seekers, where every purchase supports charitable community programs. In Mosman on Sydney's Lower North Shore, known for quality secondhand finds among its affluent residents.
OP SHOP
Red Cross
Paddington
SYDNEY, NSW
Op Shop
Red Cross Paddington
Red Cross Paddington is an op shop (charity thrift store) in Paddington, New South Wales, offering secondhand clothing, homewares, books, and bric-a-brac at bargain prices. Part of the Red Cross network. Particularly known for designer cast-offs and quality accessories. A treasure hunt for bargain seekers, where every purchase supports charitable community programs. In the leafy streets of Paddington, known for its terrace houses, galleries, and Saturday markets.
MARKET
Rozelle Collectors
Market
SYDNEY, NSW
Market
Rozelle Collectors Market
Every Saturday, the grounds of Rozelle Public School on Darling Street fill with stallholders selling vintage jewellery, antiques, and retro homewares. It's the kind of market where the browsing is the point — unhurried, analogue, and reliably stocked with the sort of objects that accumulate stories. Rozelle's broader secondhand ecosystem makes it a logical anchor for the neighbourhood.
OP SHOP
Salvos Stores
Surry Hills
SYDNEY, NSW
Op Shop
Salvos Stores Surry Hills
Salvos Stores Surry Hills is an op shop (charity thrift store) in Surry Hills, New South Wales, offering secondhand clothing, homewares, books, and bric-a-brac at bargain prices. Particularly known for retro clothing and inner-city finds. A treasure hunt for bargain seekers, where every purchase supports charitable community programs. Located in the vibrant Surry Hills precinct, surrounded by cafes, galleries, and independent boutiques.
ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES
Southern Antiques
SYDNEY, NSW
Antiques & Collectables
Southern Antiques
Thirty-plus dealers spread across a highway-side emporium in Kogarah. Ken's Pens handles fountain pens; Belgravia deals in antique silver; Steamship & Maritime Collectables does exactly what it says. The broader floor covers mid-century glassware, vintage clothing, radios and toys. On-site ceramic restoration, custom lampshade making, and workshops if you want to learn it yourself. Seven days.
VINTAGE STORE
That Vintage
Emporium
SYDNEY, NSW
Vintage Store
That Vintage Emporium
Seventy-plus stallholders across 2,100 square metres of Alexandria warehouse, open every day. Furniture, art, collectables, decor — stock shifts with whoever's brought what in. The Botany Road address puts it squarely in the city's design-industry corridor. Worth a morning.
ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES
The Antique
General Store
SYDNEY, NSW
Antiques & Collectables
The Antique General Store
Four decades on Warraba Road, this North Narrabeen dealer collective fills ten rooms with restored furniture, collectables, and vintage wares. The range pulls in home decorators and TV production designers alike — the stock turns over fast enough to warrant repeat visits.
VINTAGE FURNITURE & HOMEWARES
The Bower Reuse
and Repair Centre
SYDNEY, NSW
Vintage Furniture & Homewares
The Bower Reuse and Repair Centre
Since 1998, this Marrickville environmental charity has been pulling household goods and building materials back from landfill. Two Sydney stores — including a retro boutique at the Inner West Sustainability Hub — plus repair workshops and council collection agreements covering 2.7 million residents. The circular economy, made walkable.
VINTAGE STORE
The Vintage
Place
SYDNEY, NSW
Vintage Store
The Vintage Place
Fifty years of dealing has produced a particular kind of disorder: clay next to porcelain, Australian colonial coins beside Chinese altar tables, S.T. Gill prints sharing wall space with European oils. The Turramurra showroom handles appraisals, estate clearances, and provenance research alongside the retail — which explains how a Coalport Cairo plate ends up priced correctly.
BOOKS & EPHEMERA
Title Bookshop
SYDNEY, NSW
Books & Ephemera
Title Bookshop
Title Bookshop is a bookshop and ephemera dealer in Surry Hills, New South Wales, specialising in secondhand books, vintage prints, maps, postcards, and paper ephemera. Particularly known for rare books, second-hand, literary fiction. Book lovers can spend hours exploring shelves stacked with out-of-print titles, rare editions, and fascinating paper ephemera. Located in the vibrant Surry Hills precinct, surrounded by cafes, galleries, and independent boutiques.
VINTAGE FURNITURE & HOMEWARES
Upcycle Sydney
SYDNEY, NSW
Vintage Furniture & Homewares
Upcycle Sydney
Ultimo's second-hand warehouse on Wattle Street — marble coffee tables, art deco lamps, vintage furniture — stocks rotating weekly. Students, collectors and set designers all shop here. Upcycle also partners with Pyrmont Cares to furnish homes for people in need, and has shipped container loads of linen and kitchenware to Tonga. Come with a van.
VINTAGE FURNITURE & HOMEWARES
Vampt Vintage
Design
SYDNEY, NSW
Vintage Furniture & Homewares
Vampt Vintage Design
Vampt Vintage Design is a vintage furniture shop in Marrickville, New South Wales, specialising in mid-century modern furniture, retro homewares, and vintage decor. Particularly known for mid-century furniture and designer lighting. Browse showroom floors filled with restored sideboards, dining settings, armchairs, and lighting from the 1950s through the 1980s. In Marrickville, part of Sydney's thriving inner-west vintage and creative scene.
OP SHOP
Vinnies Newtown
SYDNEY, NSW
Op Shop
Vinnies Newtown
Vinnies Newtown is an op shop (charity thrift store) in Newtown, New South Wales, offering secondhand clothing, homewares, books, and bric-a-brac at bargain prices. Particularly known for designer label finds and vintage clothing. A treasure hunt for bargain seekers, where every purchase supports charitable community programs. Set in the eclectic heart of Newtown, a neighbourhood renowned for its vintage shopping strip along King Street.
OP SHOP
Vinnies Paddington
SYDNEY, NSW
Op Shop
Vinnies Paddington
Vinnies Paddington is an op shop (charity thrift store) in Paddington, New South Wales, offering secondhand clothing, homewares, books, and bric-a-brac at bargain prices. Particularly known for upmarket fashion donations and quality homewares. A treasure hunt for bargain seekers, where every purchase supports charitable community programs. In the leafy streets of Paddington, known for its terrace houses, galleries, and Saturday markets.