South Front Antiques

SO MUCH to see here. You’ll need time to stay a while. Their treasures are tiny to huge. The staff knows a lot about the pieces & are very kind.

I love this place, you never know what you may run across. They have an eclectic mix of items, some may seem a little pricey but there are also treasures galore. I couled spend an entire day just browsing.

This place is really cool. The only reason I’m giving 4 stars and not 5 is because they’re a little overpriced compared to the other antique stores in Memphis. They have more doors and doorknobs than I’ve ever seen before. They have a lot of vintage furniture as well. You should at least take a look at this place even if you’re not going to buy something. It’s really awesome!

«This place is incredible. It has such eclectic antiques. I found a beautiful front door with all the hardware and some outdoor copper pots for my garden. Such a find.»

If you own or plan to own a fabulous southern home in midtown with a wrap around porch, built in book cases and tons of vintage charm you need to head on down to South Front Antique Market. This place is busting at the seams with authentic vintage finds. Claw foot tubs, vintage windows and doors, books, stamps, baby doll heads minus the body, animal heads to hang on your wall, door knobs, bed frames, fans and fire place mantles to name a few. My husband and I are in here quite often perusing the old doors and fire place mantles, attempting to snatch up the perfect fit for a future headboard for our guest room. If you have a love of vintage and endless imagination and talent you will be in heaven.
Don’t expect to enter this place and have it stocked and organized, there really is no rhyme or reason to where anything is located. South Front is a hoarders dream and an OCD case’s nightmare. It doesn’t detour me as I love scouring for vintage finds in dusty spaces, it’s my favorite way to shop. There are three levels, which we didn’t discover till our third visit. Make sure to see each! Word to the wise– it is HOT in here, on every occasion we’ve visited there was no air conditioning. Whether it’s nonexistent, or if they try to save cash I am not sure.

Dusty. Get ready. This place is huge and you could probably spend an entire day here poring over the various items in this store. Anything from comic books to bedposts, crystal goblets, chandeliers, and spoon collections. The storekeeper wasn’t very chatty when I asked him a question, but he was friendly enough. The basement is filled with bedposts — it’s kind of creepy wondering where all of those came from. The top floor is a little lighter — lots of old mirrors, some paintings and pictures and older furniture. If you’re looking for high-​quality hipper items, like white-​washed antiques — you won’t find them here. You’ll find the real stuff.

If anything architectural is missing from your midtown home, chances are it’s wound up at South Front Antiques.
The three-​story shop is full of light fixtures, windows, mantles, claw foot bathtubs, furniture and hardware. The basement is almost entirely filled with doors that are sort of filed standing up.
It’s the sort of shop where great finds are lurking around every corner. Just be careful — if you look around the same corner I did, you’ll come face to face with a wall full of very angry-​looking mounted deer heads.
South Front Antiques has been open for more than 30 years, which means that they’ve amassed quite a collection of stuff. There are some really unique things there, like a pinball machine, a bear skin rug, more random disembodied antlers than I’ve ever seen in one place, and a book called, presumptuously, «The Greatest Book Ever Written» (only $ 2).