Atlanta Magazine
Beloved Atlanta furnishings line Bobo Intriguing Objects opens its first retail location
The shop offers antiques and the antique-inspired
Photograph by Martha Williams
The hunt for antiques still makes Mark Sage’s heart skip a beat. “I love to see how people lived, the things they had,” he says. For 22 years, he’s made a living scouting out weird, beautiful, and unusual European furniture and curiosities. But he found that, as a business model, one-of-a-kind pieces have their limits. “Antiques are my first love,” he says, “but they aren’t scalable.” So, in 2006, he launched Bobo Intriguing Objects, his own line of new furniture built with old materials chandeliers made of vintage wine barrels, baker’s cabinets with windows rescued from crumbling factories and expertly crafted antique reproductions. (Sage dislikes the term “reproduction,” but make no mistake, they are just that.) Top designers have been sourcing from Sage for years, but un