Located at Gallery 11, inside the iconic Maling Road Antique Market, an antique retail space that has been located in a historic Edwardian era Movie Theatre for over 35 years, better yet it has been owned and operated by the same industry stalwart Lindsay Newstead, his daughter Lauren and a close group of the handful of gallery holders. 

The market forms an integral part of the retail mixture of one of Melbourne's most famous historic turn of the 19th-20th Century Shopping Precincts, in the leafy eastern suburb of Canterbury. Just 15 minutes from the CBD via train (less by car) and less than a 2-minute walk from Canterbury railway station.

 The Canterbury community has fought on countless occassions to maintain the ambience, retail mix and old world charm and every time they have come out victorious. Not because they had the best laywers but because Strip Shopping Pricincts such as this are what Melbourne is all about. We are not a city center, rather an ever changing collection of Strip Shopping Precincts; From the Aspirational, Designer Labels of Toorak Rd South Yarra, The Grundgy, down to earth vibe of St Kilda's Acland st, Grey rd & Balaclava Rd, The Cosmopolitain & Multicultural meltingpot of Sydney Rd or the Eclectic Mix of Mid 20th Century Style mixed in with nightclubs and $2 Shops that Makes Smith St Fitzroy just so cutting edge. The list goes on & on!

What does Maling Road Have That These Other Strips Do Not?

Maling Road is a colorful, contemporary and thriving village offering a selection of quality homeware, gift, beauty, fashion shops, coupled with a friendly and welcoming range of cafes, fresh food, and eateries that create the unique and timeless experience that can only been found in Maling Road.

Stroll through enticing walkways such as Theatre Place and get immediately caught up in the eclectic atmosphere of yesteryear. Discover eateries that encourage you to take your time and enjoy the experience. Always the premier tourist attraction, Maling Road is located only 12km from Melbourne CBD. 

This is stylish street shopping at its best, Maling Road is known locally and internationally as one of Melbourne’s best shopping areas as well as a sought-after location by film crews for local and international films, anual events such as Auto-Classico every November and many others beside Maling Road comprises approximately 70 retail and service businesses that encompass the ideal retail mix that immidiately evokes the Edwardian Period and all of it's splendour.

Browse a shopping village that still upholds a sense of care and standard and experience traders offering a traditional combination of personalized service, quality, and presentation.  Uncover stores that supply the unique and the every day and be greeted by business owners who understand you are a customer, not a consumer.  Shop where owners will get to know you by name.

Maling Road – where everyone’s a local.

For more on the location see: Maling Road Shopping Precinct 

More Than Anything Else, Maling Road Has The Antique Market and APEX Antiques at Maling Road

  APEX Antique Traders has been operating continuously since 2006 at various locations in and around Melbourne. Since early 2019 however we have found our home amongst the seasoned Industry Professionals at Maling Road Antique Centre. Owned and operated by antique industry stalwart Lindsay Newstead. Lindsay opened the Center over 35 years ago and has been operating from the same location ever since. Maling Road Antique Centre was such a good fit for APEX we made the decision to make this move a more permanent arrangement and renamed ourselves APEX Antiques at Maling Road.  It is at this stellar location we have been able to offer our most diverse range of Affordable Quality Antiques, Vintage, and Collected Old Wares to date.

 Our philosophy is simple, we believe Antiques and Desirable Objects should be available to all, budget notwithstanding. With this in mind APEX offers a constantly changing range of Antiques, Decorative Arts, and Vintage Wares, including; Furniture, Lighting, China, Crystal, Art Glass, Militaria, Curios, Silver & Vertu from Georgian to Mid-Century as well as Ethnographica, 18th, 19th and 20th Century Chinese & Japanese Export Wares and so much more besides at a range of prices from the very affordable for even the novice collector, all of the way through to aspirational items that many collectors may only ever have one opportunity to purchase in a lifetime.

  Regardless of whether you are shopping for that special piece of statement furniture, that elusive piece of China or art glass to enhance or complete your set, a gift for a loved one, or even just out for some heavy-duty window shopping, we have new inventory arriving weekly so chances are, APEX Antiques at Maling Road has the piece for you and our regularly changing vignette's provide some inspiration for your own décor at home while ensuring there's always something unique, fresh and well presented to see. 

 The objects we sell tend to come from one of two main areas, they are what we see as the most desirable and sought after pieces regardless of period, those that range From the Unique to the Iconic. 

The Unique encompasses one of a kind, artisan crafted objects, the kind that will ensure nobody will ever have the same piece as you. These objects allow you to express your own individual design identity and personality by offering a completely bespoke approach to telling your interior story. 

Conversely, Iconic pieces are those objects that collectors, designers, you & I all know and love, the pieces that upon first glance immediately evoke a sense of the era from which they came or the hand of the designer or craftsman whom created them.  They are the true Icons of design that can never be faked. Although diametrically opposed, these two ends of the spectrum are and always will be the most sought after and desirable objects to those with an eye for something less ordinary and consequently the ones we endeavor to bring to you at APEX Antiques at Maling Road.

   On behalf of the staff at APEX Antiques at Maling Road, we look forward to helping you express your own unique design aesthetic during your next visit.