A Journey in Objects
Every month, the Tuscan city of Arezzo transforms into an open-air archive. Dealers arrive before dawn, vans unfold into temporary shops, and the streets fill with the quiet choreography of looking.
Among them are objects waiting to begin another chapter. Some of them are here.
Ad Origine is a traveling eye, moving through markets, fairs, studios, and the spaces in between.
We collect stories as much as we collect objects.
Some are established, others are new discoveries—each chosen for its presence and its use.
Together they shape our shop: part gallery, part journey, part obsession.
Every last Sunday of the month, along Milan’s canals, the Navigli Antique Market stretches for nearly two kilometres. A Milanese tradition since 1981, it draws the city into a slow search through antiques, books, vinyls, vintage clothing, and objects that resist easy definition.
This is where we find our modernariato—design from the recent past, not yet antique, but no longer entirely of the present.
Some of it is here.
In the early 1980s, Memphis Milano disrupted the language of design. Bold colours, playful geometry, and unexpected materials challenged the quiet seriousness of modernism.
Decades later, those objects still feel electric. A few have found their way here.
