Virginia Chamlee

VIRGINIA CHAMLEE IS A WRITER, ARTIST, ENTREPRENEUR, AND AVID COLLECTOR AND SELLER OF VINTAGE. She is the author of Big Thrift Energy, a manual for finding beautiful (often valuable) pieces of design for pennies on the dollar, and a source of inspiration for those looking to collect or style vintage in their own homes. A lifelong collector of vintage design, Virginia has spent years scouring thrift stores, estate sales, antique malls and flea markets for truly incredible, museum-worthy finds (like that Goyard trunk she found for $90, or the floor-length Christian Dior cape scored at Goodwill for $9). She believes even the most high-quality design should be accessible for everyone, and that the antiques industry is long overdue for a shakeup (and maybe a little more, well... energy). She lives in sunny Florida (where the vintage finds, incidentally, tend to be incredible) and can almost always be found on Instagram, sharing her latest thrift finds: @vchamlee An accomplished artist, her paintings and prints are available via exclusive partnerships with Chairish, Artfully Walls and Anthropologie. Virginia is also a professional writer with bylines at PEOPLE, Buzzfeed, Eater, Bustle, and others. She can be found @vchamlee on Instagram.