Old as Adam Antiques & Americana is curated by owner Adam Irish with an interest in American material culture, self-taught art, and evocative found objects.

        New pleasing and peculiar finds land in the store every week, including art, design, furnishings, ephemera, textiles, and curiosities. Although led with an eye open to the unusual and expected, Old as Adam also maintains specific interest areas, including folk art, period signs and advertising, vintage menswear, antique toys, and early photography. We buy.

        Part of the Old as Adam store is dedicated to the Found Object Gallery, which every few months reopens with a new collection of objects bound by a different conceptual thread. The thematic collections take a nuanced view of the material past to explore the chance poetics, contemporary relevance, and unintentional wisdom of old things lost and found.

DIRECTIONS.

The shop is located at 125 Benefit Street in Providence, Rhode Island, on the East Side just a few blocks from RISD and Brown University. An hour from Boston and three from New York City, Old as Adam is located less than five minutes from I-95 and under a half mile from the train station. Look for the brick storefront with the striped brown awnings. Street parking is free and usually plentiful.