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Vintage Home Goods & Finds FROM TOP: Jimmy Fallon’s Tron dressing room; Quest Love’s personal dressing room. Records & Reads While away the day at vintage record shops and bookstores near you. Providence Records: Olympic Records; Armageddon Shop; Round- Again Records; Music Research Library. Reads: Cellar Stories; Paper Nautilus South County Records: Looney Tunes, Wakefield. Reads: Kingston Hill Book Store, Kingston; ReReads Bookstore East Bay Records: In Your Ear, Warren. Reads: The Book Nerd, Barrington Interior Designer Kyla Coburn’s Favorite Vintage Finds In her own words, the mastermind behind the state’s dreamiest restaurants — think: Loie Fuller’s, the Grange and the East End — spills on her love of vintage and her favorite project to date: Jimmy Fallon’s dressing rooms. W E W O R K H A R D AT KC D T O A LWAY S I N C O R P O R AT E vintage items into our designs. The way people shop has changed; access to trends is insta-mediate and it’s easy to step into a Homegoods or jump online and walk out with an off- the-shelf design “kit.”     In order to create spaces that prompt people to think or draw an emotive response, it’s important to both get creative with the style references that are being layered, as well as choose individual pieces, each with their own authenticity, meaning and story. It’s like making | |    CONTINUED ON PAGE 98 52    RHODE ISLAND MONTHLY l MARCH 2020 West Bay Records: The Time Capsule, Cranston. Reads: Twice Told Tales, Cranston Newport County Records: Vinyl Guru, Newport. Reads: Commonwealth Books, Newport Blackstone Valley Records: Antiques Alley, Greenville. Reads: Stillwater Books, Pawtucket VINTAGE YARN: The Rhode Island Antiques Mall From “mantiques” to “grantiques,” this Pawtucket emporium has something for everyone. BY NANCY KIRSCH “ W E TA L K A B O U T T H I S P L AC E L I K E T H E T H R E E B E A R S; W E WA N T it to be just right,” says Scott Davis, who owns Rhode Island Antiques Mall (RIAM) with his wife, Rae Davis. “Whether you come with $10 or $10,000 to spend, you’ll find something here.” The Davises know what makes antique stores special; their first date was an antiquing expedition. Delighting serious collectors, secondhand shoppers and casual browsers alike, RIAM, which opened in 2007, sells jewelry, apparel, posters and original art, furniture, countless odds-and-ends, “mantiques” — man cave items such as political paraphernalia, musical instruments, electronics and tools — and “grantiques” — items rattling around your grand- mother’s china closet. | |    CONTINUED ON PAGE 99