Camille Nichelini and Yuka Iwasaki started Resident Objects, a vintage design shop, from their Los Angeles apartments. | Courtesy Resident Objects

Meet the women behind Resident Objects. Scrolling through Resident Objects, a vintage home goods shop on Instagram, is like a timewarp to 1980s Miami ? albeit a version that?s more The Golden Girls than Tony Montana: shell lamps and vases, pastel butter dishes, frosted-glass candle holders, cream-colored lacquered nightstands, and beveled mirrors.
Camille Nichelini, 24, and Yuka Iwasaki, 34, launched the shop in February after meeting over Instagram three years ago and bonding over their love of thrifting. Now, they?re neighbors in the same 1930s apartment building on the east side of Los Angeles and have converted both of their one-bedroom units into a boutique that specializes in mostly 80s-era vintage pieces. Their homes are also showrooms for the treasures they find before posting the listings to their Instagram followers ? over 30,000 and counting. Some things, like small vessels and decorative objects, sell as quickly as a few seconds after they?re posted.
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How did you get into selling vintage design"
Yuka: We both went to school at FIDM (the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in L.A.). I was doing fashion design and Camille was doing visual merchandi...