If you’ve ever wondered where all the good furniture went, the kind that doesn’t require an engineering degree to assemble, it’s probably at Monticello Antique Marketplace in Portland.
This Sellwood destination is where time becomes a suggestion rather than a rule, and your phone’s clock becomes increasingly irrelevant.
Let’s talk about the modern shopping experience for a moment.
You drive to a massive store with fluorescent lighting that makes everyone look vaguely ill, wander through identical showrooms, and eventually buy something that arrives in pieces with instructions that assume you have three hands and the patience of a saint…