Encore

This is my go-​to consignment furniture store on south south Broadway. It’s so far south that it has escaped the SoBo price structure and you can actually find cheap furniture. I have seriously found better deals here than at Arc.
Like many consignment shops, everything is tagged with a price, and then two dates, each of which means significant savings off the original asking price. This means cheap, cheap, cheap, which thereby translates into an ever-​changing selection of merchandise.
Now, you might want to make sure you aren’t drinking any hot beverages when you read the following (I don’t want to get sued when you do a spit take all over yourself):
I got a fab Danish desk for $ 100. I had to recover the chair, but holy cow what a deal. This same desk would have gone for $ 300 at Mod Livin’, if not more. Other great finds: A superbly refinished antique table, also $ 100 (quality!!!). A set of three handpainted snack bowls from the 50s, $ 3. Yes, I do mean $ 3.00, NOT $ 30.00.
In retrospect, I should have offered more warnings. Reading about those deals might have caused involuntary loss of bowel control. If that’s the case, I’m very sorry.
Of late, they seem to have less and less of the truly fabulous stuff, but I keep my fingers crossed. Also, the first few times I went there was a fellow from the East Coast who was awesome and remembered us after just one visit, and he doesn’t seem to work there anymore. So between the diminishing quality of finds and losing my favorite employee, I had to take it down to 3 stars.
But you just never know what you might find.