Fall 2019 marks the Grand Opening of Minnesota’s newest vintage and antique emporium: Wild Things Antiques Minneapolis. The shop now lives in the heart of the Lyn-Lake/Uptown neighborhood on Lyndale and 24th Ave and offers quirky, yet well-refined mid-mod vintage, antique furniture and housewares in a shop with charm, elegance and pizzazz. This is not your grandmas antiques shop, but she probably should make a visit, as should you.
If you would have told David Wenzel, a Cincinnati native and former Macy’s telecommunications professional, that in four years he would be married, in a different state and thriving as the owner of a vintage shop making big waves in a hip, trendy, bustling business district he might not have believed you. He may have even laughed at you. Add to the equation a Twin Cities native that in a former life was a branding and graphic design professional that changed careers via an accelerated nursing graduate program in Cincinnati, OH, a now Nurse Practitioner called Joshua Larson.
