Category: Brocante
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The Season Starts: Antiquing in France
We are off to a fantastic start collaborating with Red Shed Tours. 14 women as crazy as we are about French antiques.- I hope you will follow along.
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On the Coffee Table
On a rough wooden desk that was cut down to make a coffee table sits a silver- tray, a silk lavender ribbon, a hemp-woven cloth, a stone urn, faux flowers, and a gargoyle of sort -all of which are over…
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What Catches Our Eye-
At the brocante last week I spotted three paintings that caught my eye. Talking with the dealer I discovered that they were œuvres cotées, meaning works that are listed and valued on the art market. Even the artists themselves were artistes cotés,…
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Starting a Cabinet of Curiosity for a Client
Little by little, piece by piece, one unusual thing after another—I wade slowly through the brocante, peering into every small box and across each tabletop like a scavenger hunter. I try to stay focused, resisting the call of the larger,…
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Brocante Cabinet of Curiosities
Years ago, I began creating my own cabinet of curiosities—one centered on everyday little sweet things. I imagined that by the time I might have grandchildren, many of these ordinary objects would be unfamiliar to them. I imagine the stories…
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The French Brocante Guessing Game Reveal
The bread stamp I discovered yesterday came from the Alps… Kathie got it right. Before homes had its own oven, bread in rural France was baked in a shared communal oven—the four communal,- the four banal. Families would prepare their dough at home,…