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Co-owners Robert and Lynne Knowles in the Antiek Louis booth of Pigfish Lane
TREASURE HUNT Antiques market Pigfish Lane offers finds for everyone by AYN-MONIQUE KLAHRE photography by EAMON QUEENEY
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ust at the edge of Hillsborough Street—beyond downtown and even past the fairgrounds—you’ll find Pigfish Lane Antiques and Interiors. This sprawling indoor antiques market celebrates its one-year anniversary in August, the fruit of a bit of luck and an innate talent. “I grew up with antiques,” says co-owner Lynne Knowles. “My great-aunt was an antiques dealer in the 30s, so my mother always said I had it in my blood.” Knowles had been dealing antiques for about 25 years, 56 | WALTER
picking through flea markets and selling her wares at other antiques markets. But when her husband Robert, who works in real estate, saw the former home of Wayside Furniture for sale, he suggested she create a market of her own. “I already had all the connections, and I thought that as Raleigh was growing, it would be nice to have another space to find antiques,” she says. Inside, you’ll find antique and vintage furniture from a span of decades and provenances. Pigfish Lane hosts more than 50 dealers, each of whom curate their own booths according
