Vintagia — Curated Antiques Marketplace

Vintagia is a buy-only mobile marketplace for authenticated antiques — a practice project built to answer one question: how might we make buying a century-old object feel as considered and trustworthy as the object itself? Collectors juggle auction snipers, unverifiable listings and interfaces built for volume rather than connoisseurship, so the design removes the pressure at the model level: fixed prices, no bidding, one gold action per screen, and provenance surfaced directly under the price on every piece. The palette is drawn from the objects themselves — sage patina, gilded brass, aged copper and dark wood — and ships as semantic tokens in twin Light and Dark variable collections, which meant the warm parchment and deep-wood themes stayed in lockstep through every later change. Screens were designed free-hand first; once a pattern repeated three times it was promoted to a component, ending with 48 components governing all 30 screens through 168 instances.