Antique stores in Nantes
Antique shops are history you can buy. Nantes, Pays de la Loire has 25 mapped right now. That's 25 antique shops mapped around Nantes. Specialties differ enormously — furniture, jewellery, ephemera — so the shop that matches your interest matters more than the count. Condition is everything and provenance is king — ask about both before anything expensive.
This guide covers every antique store we could verify in and around Nantes (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include C'était mieux avant and Brocante du Lac des Vallées, plus Bibelots et Bizarreries. If an antique shop's missing from Nantes's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Nantes antique lineup
25 mapped within about 40 km:
C'était mieux avant
Antique store
C'était mieux avant is Antique store on 10 Rue Ferdinand Buisson, Couëron.
10 Rue Ferdinand Buisson, Couëron, 44220
Brocante du Lac des Vallées
Antique store
Brocante du Lac des Vallées is Antique store.
Bibelots et Bizarreries
Antique store
Bibelots et Bizarreries is Antique store. Bibelots et Bizarreries also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu 14:00-18:30, We-Fr 10:30-12:30,13:30-18:30, Sa 11:00-19:00; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Tu 14:00-18:30, We-Fr 10:30-12:30,13:30-18:30, Sa 11:00-19:00
Kif Kif
Antique store
Kif Kif is Antique store.
Tellement British
Antique store
Tellement British — Antique store.
Antiquités Girard
Antique store
Antiquités Girard is Antique store on 56bis, Montaigu.
56bis, Montaigu, 85600
Maison Caubet
Antique store
Maison Caubet is Antique store.
Antiquités du château
Antique store
Antiquités du château is Antique store. Antiquités du château also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as We-Sa 10:30-19:00; Tu 14:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: We-Sa 10:30-19:00; Tu 14:00-19:00
Phone: +33 2 40 20 31 60
Barak
Antique store
Barak is Antique store. Barak also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 11:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Tu-Sa 11:00-19:00
Phone: +33 2 40 75 87 75
Antiquités du pont-levis
Antique store
Antiquités du pont-levis is Antique store. Antiquités du pont-levis also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: +33 2 40 48 77 72
L'Air Du Temps
Antique store
L'Air Du Temps is Antique store. L'Air Du Temps also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 14:15-19:00; Sa 10:00-12:15, 14:15-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Mo-Fr 14:15-19:00; Sa 10:00-12:15, 14:15-19:00
Phone: +33 2 40895281
design-coue
Antique store
design-coue — Antique store. Also worth knowing about design-coue: the map lists its hours as Tu 10:30-12:00; Fr,Sa 10:30-12:00, 15:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Tu 10:30-12:00; Fr,Sa 10:30-12:00, 15:00-19:00
Phone: +33 6 10341470
P. Lamouret Antiquités
Antique store
P. Lamouret Antiquités — Antique store. Also worth knowing about P. Lamouret Antiquités: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Phone: +33 6 07344077
J.P Dubois Antiquités
Antique store
J.P Dubois Antiquités — Antique store. Also worth knowing about J.P Dubois Antiquités: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 10:00-12:00, 14:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Tu-Sa 10:00-12:00, 14:00-18:00
Phone: +33 2 40477818
Antiquités Jaurès
Antique store
Antiquités Jaurès is Antique store. Antiquités Jaurès also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 10:00-12:30, 14:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Tu-Sa 10:00-12:30, 14:00-19:00
Phone: +33 2 40039048
Le Passé recomposé
Antique store
Le Passé recomposé — Antique store. Also worth knowing about Le Passé recomposé: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 10:30-12:00,15:00-19:00 || "Ouvert sur rendez-vous"; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Tu-Sa 10:30-12:00,15:00-19:00 || "Ouvert sur rendez-vous"
Phone: +33 6 50 12 77 28
Compagnie des métaux précieux de l'ouest
Antique store
Compagnie des métaux précieux de l'ouest — Antique store. Also worth knowing about Compagnie des métaux précieux de l'ouest: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:00,14:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:00,14:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-17:00
Phone: +33 2 40 48 69 08
Apsara & Gandharva
Antique store
Apsara & Gandharva — Antique store. Also worth knowing about Apsara & Gandharva: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 10:30-12:00,14:30-19:00.
Hours: Tu-Sa 10:30-12:00,14:30-19:00
La Boutique 19
Antique store
La Boutique 19 is Antique store. La Boutique 19 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 14:00-19:00; We 13:00-19:00; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Tu-Sa 14:00-19:00; We 13:00-19:00
L'écrin
Antique store
L'écrin is Antique store.
Brocante Eurêka
Antique store
Brocante Eurêka is Antique store on 106 Rue de Bretagne.
106 Rue de Bretagne
Chez OIM
Antique store
Chez OIM is Antique store. Chez OIM also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Fr 14:00-19:00;Sa 10:30-19:30;"Sur rendez-vous"; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Fr 14:00-19:00;Sa 10:30-19:30;"Sur rendez-vous"
Phone: +33 6 26 62 92 21
La tête en l'air
Antique store
La tête en l'air — Antique store. Also worth knowing about La tête en l'air: the map lists its hours as Fr,Sa 10:00-13:00,15:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Fr,Sa 10:00-13:00,15:00-19:00
Phone: +33 7 43 67 21 04
Chic & Rétro
Antique store
Chic & Rétro — Antique store. Also worth knowing about Chic & Rétro: the map lists its hours as We,Fr,Sa 15:00-19:00, Fr,Sa 10:00-12:30.
Hours: We,Fr,Sa 15:00-19:00, Fr,Sa 10:00-12:30
L'Isabel
Antique store
L'Isabel — Antique store. Also worth knowing about L'Isabel: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 09:00-18:00.
Hours: Tu-Sa 09:00-18:00
What the map tells us about antique stores in Nantes
15 of the 25 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — antique shops keep civilised hours, so the listed times are usually good.
4 have websites listed. Worth a look for specialty areas — every dealer leans somewhere.
Most of the antique stores in Nantes list a phone number. Useful for asking about specific pieces or estate arrivals.
The Nantes antique trail
Making a day of it in Nantes? Work this order: C'était mieux avant on 10 Rue Ferdinand Buisson, Brocante du Lac des Vallées, Bibelots et Bizarreries, Kif Kif, Tellement British, Antiquités Girard on 56bis, Maison Caubet, and Antiquités du château. That's the antique trail in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 17 more are listed below.
Antique hunting tips for Nantes
Hunting antiques in Nantes? A few rules help:
- Check for completeness at C'était mieux avant. Missing handles, finials, leaves, or lids crater value. Count the parts before you count the cost.
- Learn wood identification at Brocante du Lac des Vallées. Mahogany versus stained pine is a value chasm. A basic grasp of woods saves expensive mistakes.
- Visit regularly. Stock turns over as estates come in. The regulars see the good pieces first — be a regular.
- Learn your periods. Victorian, Art Deco, mid-century — knowing the periods keeps you from paying Georgian prices for 1980s revival.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Nantes — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new antique store in Nantes can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 25, or a antique store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.
We don't list prices or authenticate pieces — that's the dealer's job in person. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.
If you run one of the 25 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Antique store listings for Nantes: 25 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.