High Street Armadale Galleries

Just 15 minutes from the CBD is upmarket High Street, Armadale, where more than 100 antique dealers and 20 art galleries sit side by side, creating Melbourne's best antiques strip.

The stores sell everything from colonial furniture to ceramics, Australian and European paintings, fine 18th and 19th century furniture, jewellery and decorative art.

L'Imperiale Fine French Antiques specialises in First and Second Empire antiques including Luis XIV, XV and XVI styles, while Graham Geddes Antiques has 17th and 18th century furniture, works of art, classical antiquities and architectural antiques.

For antique light fittings, statuary and objets d'art head to Antique Décor, get Oriental rugs and textiles at Behruz Studio, or Scandinavian Deco and 1950s furniture at Virtanen Antiques.