Surveying the Vintage Market at Texas’s Wildest Antique Fair

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Rachel Monroe on the antique fair in Round Top, Texas, a small town between Houston and Austin that has recently boomed in popularity and development.

Shoppers have been drawn to Round Top since a pair of Houston socialites hosted the town’s inaugural sale, in 1968. In the early nineties, Youngblood visited the fair for the first time with her grandmother. “It was very small, just a select few buildings and fields,” she said. “But there was just this spirit of treasure hunting.” Other antique markets around the country have closed, casualties of the shift to online shopping, but the fair in Round Top has become only bigger.

” I heard various explanations for this phenomenon: supply-chain issues made buying new items unreliable; travel restrictions meant that wealthy Texans were doing more of their shopping closer to home; after too much time spent glued to screens, people were hungry for objects with a patina and a history. A dealer and designer named Amelia Tarbet sources most of her merchandise in Europe. “It’s getting so hard to find decent stuff,” she told me.

 

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