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Discover our curated archive of symbolic design and visual memory

Discover curated objects from imaginary times — welcome to the Retro Design Bureau store

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Technical & Studio Tools
Machinist lamps, desk accessories, archival tech.
Technotone, 1966
Technotone (1966) is a decade compressed into light and pigment. It’s the...
The Accessories Cabinet
The Accessories Cabinet A drawer of memory, a cabinet of detail. This...
Toys & Memory Devices
Playful pieces, modular toys, and analog joy.

Toys & Memory Devices
Undefined Silhouette
A space for shapes that shift, moods that move, and bodies that...
Voyager’s Bureau, 1931
A desk by the window, a compass that no longer points north....

Voyager’s Bureau, 1931
Wall Objects & Signals
Hooks, clocks, boards — the silent language of walls.
Wartime Poetics, 1942
1942. Amidst the echoes of sirens and rationed mornings, beauty found its...

Wartime Poetics, 1942
Western Swing, 1955
Western Swing (1955) rides between the open plains and the neon-lit dance...

A Curated Archive of Imaginary Times

All objects in the Retro Design Bureau are contemporary reproductions — chosen not for their authenticity, but for their emotional resonance.

Every year you see is not a historical fact, but a symbolic date curated to evoke a gesture, a season, a scent of memory.

These pieces are fragments of imagined lives and alternate interiors, selected with poetic intent. We believe design is not only function — it is fiction, ritual, and remembrance.

This is not vintage. It’s memory.

De acordo com o Decreto-Lei n.º 74/2017 e a Portaria n.º 201-A/2017, disponibilzamos o Livro de Reclamações. clique para aceder ao link.

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