It’s not every day you walk into a store and see a giant Gaetano Pesce foot sculpture near a mounted aluminum breast from a 1940s Chicago gentlemen’s club. Or — on a more functional level, perhaps — a rare Percival Lafer ’70s brown leather and wood sofa. “I get a lot of customers come in and say, ‘What’s happening here?’ says Andy Alguire, a former video producer who, in 2022, turned his passion for unique yet well-designed vintage home furnishings into the East Ukrainian Village weekends-only shop River Otter. The curious and ever-changing assortment is exactly what makes the hunt here so thrilling. 918 N. Ashland Ave. instagram.com