Continuing our celebration of creators with a strong vision and instinct-led approach, we sat down with Alexander from Oldboy. From chocolate cornflakes mornings and pulsing electronic beats to roadside De Sede finds and iconic design classics, this Q&A offers a glimpse into the rituals, references, and curiosities that shape his world. A relaxed conversation about nostalgia, collecting with intention, and the stories that give vintage its lasting soul.
1.What’s your usual breakfast (or favorite morning ritual)?
Chocolate cornflakes (I’m a 5 year old, I know)
2. What’s a song or band you’ve been listening to a lot lately?
Odymel (unts unts unts)
3. If you could time-travel to any decade just to shop for vintage, which would it be?
To the 2000s. In that decade you can find 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, but without everyone yet going crazy over it.
4. What’s the most unusual or funny place you’ve found a vintage piece?
De Sede, side of the road
5. What’s your favorite vintage piece of all time?
Kwok Hoi Chan’s lemon sole chair
6. How did you first get into selling vintage?
As a student I redecorated my exceptionally small room every two weeks. The pieces that got replaced had to be sold. And thus started a passion.
7. What’s your favorite piece you’ve ever sold and why?
Angelo Lellii’s leaf chandelier. Just the prettiest lamp in existence.
8. How do you decide which items make it into your shop?
Based on what the shop is missing to be a complete one stop interior shop.
09. What does “vintage” mean to you personally?
It’s something that evokes a sense of nostalgia even if you haven’t lived that period directly yourself.
10. If you weren’t selling vintage, what do you think you’d be doing instead?
I’d be a clinical psychologist.
11. Since we’re Curiouz... What’s something you’ve always been curious to try, but haven’t (yet)?
Ayahuasca. No, erm I think taking a sabbatical of 1y to travel the world.
