About retro-design.dk
At retro-design.dk we are proud of being among the most environmentally sustainable businesses in the western part of the world. Obviously vintage items does not leave a carbon-footprint compared to modern industrialized production. But we have taken it a step further and here comes the 'proud' part. Since 2010 we have strived to be as eco-friendly as possible. We use recycled boxes, bubble wrap, old newspapers and and styrofoam for our packaging. We source these materials locally from stores with an excess of waste packaging materials. We bundle up our packages for bu...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Antique West African Ivory Coast Baule - Senufo Currency Bracelet in Bronze
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Senufo/baule Locking Currency Bracelet: a time honored texture and form define this Senufo sculptural object. The abstract etchings were achieved through a process known as scarifica...
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Antique 19th Century Ivorian Tribal Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Bronze
Glazed Stoneware Honey Jar With Bee by Danish Getter Hundstrup
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Unsual hard-fired stoneware jar or urn featuring a playfull bee to its lid. Designed and made by the Danish Female Ceramist Getter Hundstrup in Denmark during the 1980s. It has this ...
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Late 20th Century Danish Brutalist Jars
Materials
Stoneware
1930s Danish Lion Paw Bronze Table Lamp with Pink Shade
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A stylish column table lamp with lion paws - feet executed in patinated bronze and featuring a fluted vintage pink shade. It was made during the 1930s by a Danish metalworker and it ...
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Early 20th Century Danish Arts and Crafts Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Large Hand-Glazed Danish Art Nouveau Vase by Danico, 1920s
By Danico Pottery
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A danish 'Jugend' - art nouveau vase. . The floral decorations on this vase was achieved by using slip trailed glaze through a cow horn and feather quill . Danico in Horsens, Denmark...
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Early 20th Century Danish Jugendstil Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Svend Hammershøi Cylindrical Vase in Black & White Ash Glazes f Herman A. Kähler
By Svend Hammershøi
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A substantial and tall Hammershoi ceramic vase in his characteristic ash-based white and black glazes. Designed and made during the 1930s inspired by both classical and art deco arch...
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Vintage 1930s Danish Art Deco Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Moroccan Jewelry Box in Hand-Engraved Metal & Camel Bone
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Artisan made hand-engraved metal trinket for jewelry or personal smalls. Moorish/Islamic ornamentation and techniques high-lighted by panels of white camel bone and red 'jewels' of n...
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Vintage 1970s Moroccan Moorish Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Art deco Streamline Plateau Mirror Tray, 1930s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Art deco style streamline mirror tray or plateau mirror. Originally used for vanity purposes, for jewelry or even for preparing opium during the 1930s. This particular version was ma...
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Vintage 1930s German Art Deco Table Mirrors
Materials
Aluminum
ens Harald Quistgaard Vintage Danish Butter Knives, 1960s
By Jens Quistgaard
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A set of 6 Butter or dinner Knives designed by Jens Harald Quistgaard and manufactured by Raadvad in Denmark during the 1950s or early 60s. Materials: stainless steel and faux bone h...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Tableware
Materials
Stainless Steel
Kay Bojesen Vintage Danish Fish Knives for USC Copenhagen, 1950s
By Kay Bojesen
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A set of 6 Fish Knives designed by Kay Bojesen and manufactured by United Steel Company in Denmark during the 1950s. During this period KB worked as a Artistic Leader at the Company....
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Vintage 1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Knife Boxes
Materials
Stainless Steel
Large Vintage Hand-Carved Crocodile in Dark Wood
Located in Esbjerg, DK
85 cm long and lean crocodile in hand-carved wood. We have been told that it was brought home from Africa during the 1980s by a Danish Tourist. It has a screw to its back - allowing ...
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Vintage 1980s Folk Art Animal Sculptures
Materials
Hardwood
Royal Copenhagen Glazed Stoneware Bowl by Bode Willumsen, 1950s
By Bode Willumsen
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Organically shaped stoneware bowl in earthy Sung and Crystaline Glazes. It was designed by danish ceramist Bode Willumsen and manufactured by Royal Copenhagen in the late 1940s or ea...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Stoneware
Royal Copenhagen Glazed Stoneware Bowl by Bode Willumsen, 1950s
By Bode Willumsen
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Organically shaped stoneware bowl in earthy Sung and Crystaline Glazes. It was designed by danish ceramist Bode Willumsen and manufactured by Royal Copenhagen in the late 1940s or ea...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Stoneware
