Comments on: De Mille – 7 Crossley Street, Melbourne http://undergroundmelbourne.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/de-mille-7-crossley-street-melbourne/ Idiosyncratic and uncompromising small scale and alternative mentionables in Melbourne, Australia Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:50:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: De Mille - 7 Crossley Street, Melbourne http://undergroundmelbourne.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/de-mille-7-crossley-street-melbourne/#comment-42 De Mille - 7 Crossley Street, Melbourne Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:45:22 +0000 http://undergroundmelbourne.wordpress.com/?p=45#comment-42 [...] careerfashion wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Tucked away on what posh people like to call ‘Bourke Hill’, Crossley Street is a mini cornucopia of niche purveyors and artisans. One of the earliest settlers into this lane is De Mille antiques. Specialising in the heady early 20th century: edwardian, deco and nouveau seem to be the dominant milieu of this shop; De Mille is not by any means what one would consider cheap but the scope and uniqueness of the items contained renders a pricetag immaterial. The 20s and 30s particularly are an iconic time for design, and De Mille’s collection dips into clothing, glassware, luggage, lamps and furnishings, statuery plus of course all manner of oddments and curios which fall under the ‘useless but exceedingly pretty and/or odd’ banner, including paperweights, decorative throws, wall hangings, cigar boxes, mannequins: you name it, they have it available, and possibly in a size/shape/style you’ve never seen before. […] [...] [...] careerfashion wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Tucked away on what posh people like to call ‘Bourke Hill’, Crossley Street is a mini cornucopia of niche purveyors and artisans. One of the earliest settlers into this lane is De Mille antiques. Specialising in the heady early 20th century: edwardian, deco and nouveau seem to be the dominant milieu of this shop; De Mille is not by any means what one would consider cheap but the scope and uniqueness of the items contained renders a pricetag immaterial. The 20s and 30s particularly are an iconic time for design, and De Mille’s collection dips into clothing, glassware, luggage, lamps and furnishings, statuery plus of course all manner of oddments and curios which fall under the ‘useless but exceedingly pretty and/or odd’ banner, including paperweights, decorative throws, wall hangings, cigar boxes, mannequins: you name it, they have it available, and possibly in a size/shape/style you’ve never seen before. […] [...]

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