Relic is a curated marketplace for vintage and collectible design — mid-century seating, Murano glass, brutalist lighting, first-run ceramics. Every listing is condition-graded, provenance-checked, and photographed under daylight before it ever reaches the floor.
Sourced from the estates, ateliers, and dealers who knew it first
Anyone can list a chair. Relic stands behind the chair — its maker, its decade, its scratches honestly described — so you buy with the confidence of a gallery, not the gamble of a flea market.
Every object is inspected in hand and scored on a six-point scale, from museum-grade to honest-wear. We photograph the flaws, not just the flattering angle, and write them into the listing.
Where a piece came from, who owned it, and how we know. When a maker can be confirmed, we name them; when it can't, we say 'attributed' and tell you why.
Make a private offer on any piece and the seller has 48 hours to answer. No bidding wars, no sniping, no auto-bots inflating the close. A fair price, settled like adults.
Fragile objects ship crated and insured, by carriers who move art for a living. We track every parcel and cover it door to door — glass included.
Six of the roughly four hundred pieces live this week. Each is one of one — when it sells, it's gone, and something stranger takes its place.
Teak frame, original wool in a faded ochre, by a Copenhagen cabinetmaker. Re-glued joints, honest patina to the arms. Condition: very good.
Hand-blown layered glass in smoke and amber, a pontil mark intact on the base. No chips, one faint annealing line. Condition: excellent.
Torch-cut brass column on a raw steel base, rewired to current safety standard with a cloth cord. Lovingly tarnished. Condition: good.
Wood-fired stoneware with an ash glaze pooling green to rust, signed to the foot. A kiln kiss to the rim, as intended. Condition: very good.
Bauhaus-lineage cantilever frame, re-strapped in saddle leather by our restorer. Period chrome with light pitting. Condition: good, restored.
Solid Roman travertine, two-tier, filled and honed. A few stable surface marks consistent with fifty years of use. Condition: very good.
What changes when every object is vetted
Design didn't move in a straight line, and neither should the way you browse it. We file the floor by the moods that made each era — so you can chase a feeling, not just a date.
Tubular steel, Bakelite, and the first time furniture admitted it was built in a factory. Bauhaus lineage and early Art Deco, when restraint was the radical move.
Teak, moulded plywood, and Scandinavian patience. The decades everyone reissues and almost nobody improves on. Most-collected era on the floor.
Murano glass, fibreglass curves, and studio potters firing one-offs in backyard kilns. Optimism you can hold — sometimes literally still warm-toned.
Travertine, torch-cut brass, and lighting that doubles as sculpture. Heavy, unapologetic, and finally affordable again before the market catches on.
Dealers, downsizers, and estate executors list with Relic because we turn 'I think this is valuable' into a sold object at a fair price — without the fees and theatre of the auction room.
Send photos and what you know. A specialist returns a realistic price range, the likely maker and era, and whether it's a fit for the floor — usually within two business days.
Accepted pieces are photographed in our studio under natural light, written up by a cataloguer, and placed in front of collectors who are already looking for exactly this.
A single 18% fee when a piece sells, payment processing and listing included. No insertion fees, no buyer's premium games, no surprises at settlement.
Once your piece is delivered and the buyer's inspection window closes, your funds are released to your account. Track every sale and payout from one ledger.
Clearing a home or a gallery? Our specialists handle whole collections — sorting the consignable from the donatable and managing pickup, storage, and staging.
Every object you list carries Relic's grading and guarantee, so buyers trust the description — which means fewer disputes and more repeat collectors finding your work.
“I've bought sight-unseen from Relic four times now. The condition reports are so precise that the piece always arrives exactly as described — flaws and all. That's rarer than the furniture.”
“When my mother's apartment had to be cleared, Relic catalogued forty years of design in a weekend and sold the lot for nearly double what the local auctioneer quoted.”
“As a dealer I list on five platforms. Relic is the only one where the buyers already know what a sommerso vase is — so I'm not explaining, I'm just selling.”
Every listing is vetted by a specialist before it goes live. We confirm the maker and era where the evidence allows and clearly mark anything as 'attributed' or 'in the style of' when it doesn't. If an authenticated piece is ever proven otherwise, we refund it in full.
We grade on a six-point scale — museum, excellent, very good, good, fair, and project — and back it with daylight photographs of every flaw. Vintage means honest wear; we describe it precisely so there are no surprises when the crate is opened.
A single flat 18% commission when your piece sells, with listing, payment processing, and photography included. There are no insertion fees and no buyer's premium — the price you agree to is the price that settles.
Larger and fragile pieces ship crated and fully insured through specialist art carriers, with door-to-door tracking. Smaller objects are professionally packed in-house. Shipping is quoted before you commit, never bolted on after.
Yes. Every purchase has a 5-day inspection window from delivery. If the piece doesn't match its condition report or provenance, return it for a full refund — we cover the freight both ways.
Browse this week's floor before it turns over, or send us a piece and find out what it's truly worth. No fees to look, no fees to ask.