In our Retailist weekly feature, we share local places to satiate your shopping needs and feed your consumerist tendencies. Have a great place for us to get addicted to? Email us and let us know!
So yeah, we're a little behind on the Retailist this week, but that may be because we've been busy trying convince our friends to loan us a pick-up truck for this weekend's Urban Market.
The Urban Market happens two Sundays a year and always, without exception, manages to make us wish we needed an extra four poster bed, claw foot bathtub and mountains of retro fabric. We would call it being 'prepared', others might see it as more of a freakish pat rack problem. Whatever.
Details:
120 Yale // (281) 610.1717
Hours: This Sunday, October 14th from 10am - 4pm ($3 admission)
Don't miss:
Uhm, everything!! Get there early so you can get your hands on the best stuff - your fellow bargain hunters are competitive and fast-moving!
The damage:
You'll get good deals, but you must be diligent and early for the real treasures.
The Urban Market is one of the most fun places in town to shop for cool antiques. Houston-area dealers (of the furniture and art variety of course) set aside some of the favorite pieces just for this weekend, ensuring that instead of digging through someone's crappy cruise photos and broken ceramic figurine collection you get really great stuff.
But it's not at all a leisure window shopping experience - you do have to look hard for your particular style and flavah. As with any kind of market, poking around in corners, behind boxes and underneath larger pieces can wield magical discoveries. But that's half the fun people!
When you've worn yourself out elbowing all those H-Town interior designers, hippies and River Oaks arm candy, you can veg over a glass of iced Katz's Coffee and a pimento cheese sandwich and gloat over the spoils of the day.
Be bold and bargain shop as no man/woman has bargain shopped before. If you over-extend your car's cargo capacity, they even have your home deliveries covered for cheap. What have you got to lose? Besides floor space and an excuse to go to Ikea that is...
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Photos from the Urban Market Houston site
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