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Before it came to be known as ‘Joe’s Fine Antiques and Furniture Design’, the trendy little shop on the south side of town was known of as ‘Joe’s Junk and Antique Shop’. Everything changed for the little shop after a local paper ran a story on it is as part of series designed to highlight the town’s quaint small businesses. Once word got out about the remarkable talents of Gustave, the shop’s new owner, people from as far away as London and Paris came to see what precious gems it held.

What attracted his many fans to him, was Gustave’s remarkable eye for seeing the potential in rusted-out bedsteads, or beaten-up old baby cribs. In the drop of a hat he could turn them into whole new pieces of trendy furniture. The interior designers went wild for it. Gustave could not produce new pieces from old junk fast enough to meet the demand. Before long, there was waiting list for his creations that was several months long.

Gustave was a professional furniture designer who specialized in furniture recycling. He was always on the look-out for good pieces, visiting both estate sales and yard sales in his never-ending quest for used furniture. Twice a week, on the night before garbage-day, he cruised the streets in search of potential pieces. When he found one, he immediately brought it back to the shop, where he stripped it down and remodeled it. Cheap armchairs became stylish pieces of furniture fit for executive living rooms in his skilled hands. Their curbside origins remained a secret between himself and the interior designer purchasing it.

The sad truth was that, until the newspaper had run the fateful article, not many people knew that there were furniture designers such as Gustave, who specialized in recycling old pieces. Gustave sometimes wished that it had remained that way.

But Gustave did not only excel at recycling furniture. He was, on top of it all, an expert in antique furniture. His could unerringly spot the one true piece that lay hidden amongst a forest of lesser pieces. Genuine Pennsylvania Farmhouse dining sets could not avoid detection by his trained eye, no matter how many layers of paint they were hidden under.

Once in his hands, he would spend many long hours lovingly restoring a piece, no matter how mundane it’s nature. Shortly after purchasing the shop, his interest broadened to include all antiques when, quite by accident, he discovered a strange looking object on a back shelf. He did not have a clue as to what it was, but his inner alarm went off immediately. After doing some research, he was able to proudly claim to be the owner of a rare, nineteenth century bedpan.

Being the toast of the town is not easy for an artist such as Gustave. Despite the hardships, he manages to live with his fame. To lighten his load he finally has taken on an apprentice to whom he gave the single name of ‘Charles’. As for the bedpan, that now sits proudly in the collection of a minister whose name Gustave will not divulge.