Super Duper Market was born from a love of hunting for something vintage and letting yourself be surprised by what you find. It’s not like the classic second-hand market, but a project that brings together objects, design, music and people.
On 10 and 11 October 2026, in the industrial spaces of Spazio Fase in Alzano Lombardo, Bergamo, the market dedicated to vintage and mid-century collectibles returns. For two days, it brings together furniture, lamps, vinyl records, jukeboxes, posters, signs, curious objects and one-of-a-kind pieces, turning the search for the right item into part of the experience.
Not everything old is vintage
The starting point of Super Duper Market is selection. The project was in fact created with the idea of building an event dedicated to “well-done” vintage, carefully curated and able to become, over time, a reference point for the sector in Italy.
For this reason, alongside vintage and industrial furniture, you’ll find mid-century pieces, lamps, vinyl records and jukeboxes, but also posters, signs and objects that are hard to classify. It’s precisely this variety that makes the journey interesting: you don’t necessarily walk in with the idea of buying something specific, but with the chance of stumbling upon an object you weren’t looking for. The past, here, isn’t treated as something to be preserved intact. Instead, it goes back into circulation, changing owner, context and meaning.
A market inside a former paper mill
The location, too, contributes to the nature of the project. Spazio Fase was created inside a former industrial paper mill on the outskirts of Bergamo, now converted into a space dedicated to events, culture and creativity.
It’s a setting that lends itself particularly well to such a diverse accumulation of objects: industrial surfaces, pre-existing structures and traces of the past become the backdrop of a market where time is the true common thread. The result is less like a temporary shop and more like a big exploration: you walk through the spaces, look at the objects, listen to music and stop to chat.
You don’t come only to buy, and this is perhaps what most sets Super Duper Market apart. The project itself defines it as an “experience”, built around something that goes beyond shopping. During the weekend there will also be food & drink, a relaxation area and music with DJ sets. Buying thus becomes just one of the possibilities. The real appeal lies in the time spent inside the market and in the connections that can form between people united by curiosity for objects, design and the stories they carry with them.
Because a jukebox, an old sign or a lamp are not just things. They can tell the story of an era, a habit, an aesthetic, or simply become the detail that changes a room.
A project born in Bergamo
Super Duper Market is a project by Particolare Studio, a creative studio based in Bergamo working in branding and communication. The stated goal is to build an event able to grow over time and become a national reference point for the world of vintage. The direction, therefore, doesn’t seem to be that of a simple seasonal appointment. The market is conceived as an evolving format, in which the selection of objects coexists with a social and cultural dimension.
Super Duper Market is a place where you need to stop, look more closely and choose. There is also a more contemporary side behind a project that seems, at first glance, to be turned toward the past. Recovering and putting existing objects back into circulation means taking them out of the throwaway logic and extending their life cycle. Super Duper Market speaks of this dimension in terms of a return of the past “in a more sustainable and conscious way”.
It isn’t necessary, however, to turn every vintage object into an ecological statement. The value of the project also lies in the possibility of choosing something simply because you like it, because it’s strange, because it recalls a specific period or because it doesn’t look like everything else.
