The 13 Most-Recommended Antique and Vintage Shops in Singapore
The antique and vintage dealers Singapore's guide writers name most often.
Counted from 4 published guides as of 2026-09-06. 62 antique shops were named in total.
In short: Across 4 independently published Singapore guides to the best antique shops, Hock Siong and Co and Journey East are named most often — each on 4 of them.
We read 4 independently published Singapore guides to antique shops, took only the venue names, and counted how many named each one. Venues on the same count are tied. We have not visited these places, we take no payment for placement, and we reproduce none of the sources’ writing. Every guide we counted is linked at the foot of this page.
| # | Place | Guides | Walk from MRT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Long-longtime Store | 2 | — |
| 7 | Lorgan's the Retro Store | 2 | — |
| 8 | Mobler Singapore | 2 | — |
| 9 | Noden | 2 | — |
| 10 | Second Charm | 2 | — |
| 11 | The GoDown | 2 | — |
| 12 | The Past Perfect Collection | 2 | — |
| 13 | Tong Mern Sern | 2 | — |
About antique shops in Singapore
Singapore's antique trade sits at a crossroads of several histories — colonial British, Peranakan, Chinese immigrant and regional Southeast Asian — which gives the stock here a range you would not find in a market this size anywhere else.
A local peculiarity is the ex-hotel and ex-showflat trade: dealers who buy out hotel refurbishments and show units and resell the furniture. It is not antique in any strict sense, but it is where a lot of the interesting and affordable stock comes from.
Counting across published guides is useful because these shops are mostly in industrial buildings and shophouses with no passing trade, and are effectively invisible unless someone tells you they exist.
What separates a good one from an average one
- Whether it is genuinely antique, reproduction, or refurbished ex-commercial stock. All three are legitimate and priced very differently.
- Whether the piece has been treated for the climate. Imported wooden furniture can move and crack badly here.
- Delivery, since these dealers are usually in industrial buildings and the pieces are heavy.
- Whether restoration is offered in-house, which the better dealers do.
Planning the visit
Go to the vertical furniture buildings and industrial clusters rather than hunting individual addresses. Several dealers occupy the same buildings, and browsing floor by floor is how people actually find things here.
Ask about provenance and treatment plainly. Good dealers are direct about what a piece is and is not, and the answer tells you as much about the shop as about the furniture.
Mistakes worth avoiding
- Buying untreated imported wood without asking how it will behave in this humidity.
- Assuming everything in an antique shop is antique.
- Falling for a piece without checking it will fit through the lift and the front door.
How the consensus actually fell
62 different antique shops were named across the 4 guides we read, and only 13 of them were named by more than one. That gap is the interesting part: it means the field is wide and the agreement is narrow, and the places that cleared the bar did so because separate editors, working independently, arrived at them anyway. At the top the count is genuinely tied — Hock Siong and Co and Journey East each appear on 4, and we show that rather than inventing a tiebreak.
Why we count instead of ranking
Every travel list is one writer’s day out. That is not a flaw — it is what makes a city guide worth reading — but it does mean a single list tells you more about the writer’s afternoon than about the field. Counting across 4 of them cancels out individual taste and leaves the places that different people, visiting on different days for different reasons, arrived at independently.
It is a deliberately narrow claim. This page does not tell you which antique shop is best; it tells you which ones Singapore’s guide writers keep returning to, and exactly how many times. Where the count is close, the honest answer is that the field is close — and we would rather show you that than manufacture a ranking to hide it.
What are the best antique shops in Singapore?
Across 4 independently published Singapore guides to the best antique shops, Hock Siong and Co and Journey East are named most often — each on 4 of them.
How is this antique shop ranking put together?
We read 4 independently published Singapore guides, took only the venue names, and counted how many of them named each place. 62 distinct antique shops were named in total; the 13 shown here appeared on at least 2. We do not visit, rate or accept payment for placement, and no source's writing is reproduced — every guide we counted is linked below.
Is this list sponsored or paid for?
No. Nothing on this page can be bought. The order is arithmetic — how many independent publications named each place — so the only way to move up it is for more of them to write about you. We earn nothing from any venue here and link to the sources so you can check the count yourself.
Where can you buy antiques in Singapore?
Mostly from dealers in shophouses and industrial buildings rather than on high streets, including several vertical furniture buildings where multiple dealers share an address. Stock spans colonial, Peranakan, Chinese and regional Southeast Asian pieces.
What is ex-hotel furniture?
Furniture bought out of hotel refurbishments and show flats and resold. It is a substantial part of the second-hand trade here — not antique, but often well made, heavily discounted and a large share of what these dealers actually stock.
- Best Antique and Vintage Furniture Shops in Singapore — www.timeout.com
- 21 vintage furniture stores in Singapore for second hand treasures — thehoneycombers.com
- Best Vintage Furniture Stores in Singapore For Furnishing Your Home With Flair | City Nomads — citynomads.com
- 8 Secondhand Furniture Shops In Singapore For Refurbished Vintage & Antique Gems — thesmartlocal.com
- 5 Best Second-hand Furniture Shops in Singapore — www.timeout.com
- 11 Undiscovered Second Hand Furniture Shops In Singapore To Find The Most Amazing Antiques — thesmartlocal.com
We counted place names from these guides and linked back to every one. Their words, photographs, ratings and ordering are their own and are not reproduced here. Locations and walking times come from OneMap. Contains information from data.gov.sg and OneMap, Singapore Land Authority.