November 2006
The city's best loot By Jennifer Cranston
Home & Garden Guide › Furniture: Antiques and Vintage
Whimsy Antiques
- 597 Mount Pleasant Rd. (at Manor Rd. E.) • View on map »
- 416-488-0770
This narrow shop, specializing in 19th-century Canadiana, is jam-packed with solid wood pieces that have never known the taint of particleboard: a bird’s-eye maple chest ($1,595), a Québécois wooden cradle ($575), an ash cupboard from 1880 ($995). Walls are covered with window frame mirrors and faded prints of royalty; shelves are laden with emblems of an earlier time (oil lamps, salt cellars, blanket boxes). Some items are expensive and unique, such as a Georgian pedestal clock ($550), but others are just plain funky—antique toy soldiers with the heft of real lead ($20–$45 each).
- Hours:
- M–Sa 10–5
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