01/03/09

a different kind of air

by annabe

What a great place for strange found objects. If you're looking for something unusual, you should pass by Aria in N. Beach.

• Pros: creative, unusual

10/11/05

Fabulously funky finds from the Old World, combined with an artist's eye.

by Contributor

In Short
The owner of this whimsical and offbeat North Beach shop, who spends half the year digging up treasures in Europe, brings back curios ranging from crumbling, gilded architectural elements to tiny cardboard medicine boxes; vintage Belgian muscle magazines to huge natural history charts; hand-carved wooden hourglasses to decaying religious sculptures. The stock is uniformly quirky, striking, surprisingly affordable and evocative of a somewhat mysterious time and place.