Early California Antiques

The largest inventory of Native American and Mexican silver jewelry and most comprehensive gallery of West Coast fine art, illustration art, posters and prints.The leading source for the classics of the California Style, Monterey furniture, Catalina and Bauer pottery, Spanish Colonial, Spanish Revival, Mexican and Deco. 

Old School for a New Era

In many ways we live in a golden age of design: customers and manufacturers have become hip to style, and Ikea and Target, West Elm, Crate and Barrel, Restoration Hardware have put good design within reach of those who can only aspire to the real Design Within Reach, while television and social media continue to educate us all. Which is all great. But…Simply because we get to see everything, a feeling creeps in that maybe we’ve seen it all. We miss the unique, the one of a kind, the never-copied, the unexpected. The very things that make interior design personal. That put a signature on a project.

And it so happens that these are the very things we specialize in, here at Early California Antiques. And not only the great classics of the classic California Style, Monterey furniture, Catalina and Bauer pottery, Spanish Colonial, Spanish Revival, Mexican, Deco, Mid-Century, Arts &Crafts, Native American, all the classic touchstones of what became the tangible California dream, but also the outliers and the unusual.

We color outside the lines, we venture outside of the box, we have an eclectic eye, endless curiosity and the habit of discovery: folk art and folk furniture, north and south of the border, memorabilia, curiosa and, our particular pride and joy, our ever-growing and exploring gallery of art. You’ll find everything from California plein-air masters to the abstract and the modernist, pieces evocative of the Great Depression, of the jazz age, the turn of the century and the mid-century: landscapes, cityscapes and portraits, oils, watercolors, prints and vintage photography.

With our showroom in Santa Barbara and our warehouse in Oxnard, our comprehensive web-site, as well our regular participation at numerous antiques shows, we put our energy into outreach to both buyers and sellers, dealers and collectors, and, very particularly, to designers and decorators. We make regular deliveries to Los Angeles, and indeed from San Francisco to San Diego, and we ship anywhere.

So find us.The Showroom: 1331 State St, Santa Barbara CA 93101 (805) 837-8735 Mon-Tues 10-6, Wed-Sat 11-7,Sun 12-6 The Warehouse: 953 N Rice Avenue Oxnard CA 93030 (805) 351-0109 By appointment, and last weekend of the month 10-5