Category: Brocante
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French flea markets and Café au lait bowls
Collecting sans Dust At one point I collected cafe au lait bowls, they look like cereal bowls. The French, use these to drink their morning coffee with milk. Mine were stacked on top of the kitchen mantle, three and four…
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Wooden Roses
Hand carved wood 19th century panel
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Boomerangs & Marie Antoinette
My 98 year old friend paints, everyday. He is a tall, elegant, aristocratic man who paints abstracts– Cubes, figures without facial expressions, and one eyed boomerangs in vivid color. His paintings are his hobby, his story, his adventure.…
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Fainting chair and tablecloth
Finding the depot vente is where the true hunt begins! Directions are seldom straightforward, even though straight is what they say…”Go straight,” says the man I have asked at the side of the road, his left hand flat, like a…
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French flea markets and other tales
Setting up When I arrived in France, to our three chambres de bonne* and hallway apartment, it was not a nest. It didn’t have bit of feather fluff in it. Located on the seventh floor, not close to heaven, though…
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France flea markets and other stories
Flea markets in France If there is anything that can make my heart beat like a passionate drum, it is to go to an antique market. Anytime, Anywhere. Even if it means driving five hours in a car, sleeping in…