Treasure Aisles Antique Mall is in Maplewood (like 15-20 min. away from me) and is the place to shop, apparently. Here's an article ("Hunting Treasure") from my beloved St. Louis Magazine about a now-painter who paid his Wash U. tuition by finding "undervalued" goods there.
"So what do the locals love? “What’s called in the trade ‘brown furniture’—1920s reproduction, pseudo-Sheraton or Hepplewhite or Georgian, nice wood but factory-made, the proportions a little off,” he says promptly. Shame curls my entrails. I love brown furniture.
“That and crazy folk-art stuff,” he adds."
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