Geoffrey Hatty

What a find! I completely dropped my bundle when I stumbled upon Geoffrey Hatty Warehouse along this derelict section of Johnston Street. Of course I knew about Geoffrey Hatty Applied Arts in Prahran, but as someone who doesn’t have a spare $ 20k to drop on a 1930’s French armchair every few weeks, I don’t go there often.
The warehouse has ‘other’ 20^th century pieces that have been hand picked and shipped from Europe (mostly France and Italy), but that have not been deemed worthy of the flashy Applied Arts showroom. I could not believe how incredible this stuff is — there’s a massive pink velvet quilted bedhead, huge industrial brass ceiling lights, ultra-​sleek modernist lounge suites and a sideboard that is big enough to hide over ten corpses in. Or, you know, a lot of crockery.
The building itself is pretty cool too — it really looks like an old school warehouse, the type you’d want to convert into a home and fill with this furniture if you had a spare couple of mill.
The warehouse is open by appointment, or on Saturdays from 10 til 4. Well worth a visit for lovers of antiques.