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Tiffany of Redstone
Antiques, Home & Garden, Used, Vintage & Consignment. Established in 1998
“Offering rustic furniture, architectural artifacts, vintage clothing, authentic industrial & steampunk items and good old rusty metal. We also have a vast offering of unique relics and salvaged material just waiting for your spark of repurposing creativity. An unexpected experience!”
“Repurposing is all about connecting with your home surroundings. Mass produced furnishings have no soul, substance or story. On the other end of the spectrum the antiques and art world has a reputation for being lofty and pretentious, an image that has run aground with today’s consumers.”
“As more people yearn to do new, unexpected and creative things with vintage items – choosing possessions that have a backstory and making them their own, P2R – picking2repurpose was born. “People love a story,” says Craig Stifter ~ P2R Founder. “They like to know the story of an item, it’s soul, it’s substance.””
“What the heck is Craig Stifter up to at P2R – picking2repurpose?” That seems to be the question circulating the Crystal Valley in Colorado lately. To get a better handle on this conundrum we’ll need to set the Wayback Machine to the 1970’s…”
“So how did it all start? Where did Craig’s passion for picking old stuff come from? “I ‘blame’ it all on my parents!” Stifter says. Growing up in the Southwest suburbs of Chicago in the 1970’s like most little boys Craig was playing pond hockey, motor biking and building forts. But he was also tagging along with his dad, Bob Stifter, on picks ranging from the infamous Maxwell Street Market to the enormous M&R Double Drive-In Flea Market and in between all the usual junk jaunts – estate sales, garage sales, alley dumpster diving and doing what his dad referred to as “checking the traps” aka hitting his favorite junk stops. “Criss-crossing Chicago in my Dad’s old pick up truck full of junk, people would comically yell out ‘Hey Sanford and Son!””
Tiffany of Redstone
“Rustic furniture, architectural artifacts, vintage clothing, authentic industrial & steampunk items and good old rusty metal.”
Antiques, Home & Garden, Used, Vintage & Consignment. Established in 1998
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