Not gonna lie—the selection of vintage decor at Starlite Showroom in Athens, GA, makes even the most footloose traveler want to settle down, buy a home, and decorate the bejeezus out of it. Business partners Mark Opel and Dan Beynart have done a first-rate job hunting down enticing goods: velvet paintings, tube radios, pull-down world maps, clusters of Mid-Mod glass grapes, colorful kilim rugs, Eames shell chairs, and Knoll love seats among them. Prices are competitive (an 8-foot satin couch for $200 bucks… what the what?!) and the pedigree of goods impressive. A Japanese-made Hans Wegner rope chair with matching footstool? In stock. A rare Robsjohn-Gibbings dresser by Widdicomb? They got it. A powder-blue 1950s mosaic coffee table with a built-in Lazy Susan, a.k.a. the most under-appreciated invention of all time? You know it. If there’s any room left in your car at the end of your rummage, drop by Vic’s Vintage next door. The picker-in-chief deals in Danish Modern, Industrial, and Atomic Age collectibles.
750 W. Broad St., Athens, GA; 706-395-6465.




