Ask Erik Retzer what he specializes in and he’ll tell you, “Nothing. But everything is special.”
Veranda named RIGHT PROPER one of America’s best antiques resources and House Beautiful named it one of the country’s Best Home Stores. Spend a little time with the collection and you’ll understand why.
A fallow deer antler hall tree with the presence of modern sculpture. A light-up horseshoe sign from a Texas honky tonk. A life-sized Harley motorcycle hand-woven in England entirely from wicker. Strange things. Beautiful things. Things never particularly concerned with being useful.
Founded in Chicago in 2018, RIGHT PROPER is an ever-changing collection of wonderfully difficult-to-categorize objects. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Retzer has spent more than twenty years buying around the world, following his eye rather than a trend.
Important or anonymous. Refined or primitive. Useful or completely unnecessary. Retzer believes the best collections aren’t defined by genre, period, or pedigree. They’re defined by the things you can’t quite explain, but couldn’t possibly leave behind.
That’s RIGHT PROPER. If you understand, you already understand.