ReTuna is a shopping mall in Sweden’s Eskilstuna, which has your regular mall shops – florist, jewellery, homeware, fashion, books, toys, bicycles. The only difference is that everything is second hand. It could have been redesigned into something else, or repaired and repainted, but it is second hand. This is the first recycling mall in the world. There is even an IKEA!
I found some really nice items, though I stuck to three.
These alabaster or marble pineapples are gorgeous. I come from pineapple country in South Africa and have always enjoyed pineapples and lemons in home decor. Maybe it’s the shot of colour.
And a book for $1.
I also found these little Wade porcelain figurines. My family in South Africa has collected them ever since Wade Whimsies came inside Red Roses tea decades ago. Sweden has some more unusual ones so every time I travel to South Africa I take a little box of them for my family and they share them out among themselves.
