Get to know us
At 20th Century Boy we have a passion for buying, selling and restoring vintage furniture, lighting, and decorative homewares.
We focus predominantly on Mid-Century pieces from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s although older or more modern items can sometimes be found in our collection, particularly if they are interesting or well designed.
We do not restrict ourselves to purely British, European and Scandinavian design, but will occasionally include items with character and style from places such as Eastern Europe and Russia.
We do not specialise in BIG names however we do our best to identify and credit designers and manufacturers where possible.
This is me
My name is Jake Remfry and although sometimes described as a hoarder, I merely like to collect.
I have been fascinated by anything old from a young age. Not only old furniture and homewares, but also old houses, old cars and even old people. Everything old has had a life, a history, and may even have an interesting story to tell.
Over the years I have had numerous classic vehicles and renovated some fantastic ancient properties.
I started at the age of 14 with Vespa and Lambretta scooters, when we could buy them for £20-£50 and I would trash them round the fields with my friends. My first legal bike at 16 was a Yamaha FS1E as this was considerably faster than the 50cc Vespa offering. By the time I was 24, I had amounted 14 different scooters from the 1950s to the 1970s and a Ford Consul and Ford Zepher from the early 1960s. Over the years vehicles came and went, usually when building projects required funding.
I have had a 17th century timber framed farmhouse in Norfolk which turned out to be a bigger project than expected. A 19th century flint and clay-lump cottage which was at some point a bakery, and I am currently working on our red sandstone house in Somerset which was rebuilt after a fire in 1735.
Some of my OLD Volkswagens
My current OLD House Project
