French Antique Fairs....See What I See

This fair was only for professional antique dealers and you must present identification and pay a fee to enter..

Remember "everything is fair in love and war"...
So it is everyone for themselves when an antique/brocante fair opens!
We want to find the best pieces for our clients, so quickly trying to see something special before another spots it first.

At 8am normally the gates open and the French dealers start unloading their trucks.

No time for breaks...the French dealers start loading everything back on their trucks at 1pm...


Trying not to step on the cute dogs...dogs go everywhere in France


Paintings can be displayed formally on easels...


Or paintings worth thousands of dollars scattered on the floor...
Good idea to watch where you step!


I loved this young girl, looking at her book, with her doll close at hand...
The artist captured her beautiful, angelic face !


Or this woman artist, painting among the garden...dressed as if ready to attend a gala...American artist did this one.

Remember reminding your children not to get paint on their clothes?..
Not a worry here.


Find a frame for that painting that needs the perfect partner.


tapestries....loved the red roof and blue water.


Italian doors...


pieces from buildings...


Architectural fragments waiting for a creative eye ....


Dig deep in the unopened boxes...


Pair of 19th century bronze Venetian lighting....how fabulous the patina of the bronze.


new ideas...lamp made from binders of old books


mirrors...gilt or silver...all shapes and sizes


Never overlook the tables...covered with a wealth of treasures!


Did your heart long for any of the pieces...I can contact the dealers.
Email me!

Captured By The Artist's Soul

I favor paintings that pull me in...

I feel as if I stumbled upon her private moment...

I gaze quietly, not wanting to disturb.

The artist has said so much, with so little.

French Interior Paintings, Become the Author of Your Story

Some love collecting books, remembering the stories held within.

I would be a collector of

"French Interior Paintings".

Like novels, interior paintings allow us to peer into life in another time.

They give up happiness and pleasurable visions of home.

What better way to satisfy our curiosity of the past!

I recently brought this one back from Paris.

The home is filled with music..

a grand piano and a magnificent, gilt harp await the musicians.

The woman is gazing in the mirror...

Is she readying for a concert ?

Is someone important arriving??

In my favorite book on interior paintings, "at home", Frances Borzello writes of Felix Vallotton..."Vallotton understood the potential of a room in the way that poets do: not much is needed to set a scene that liberates the imagination."

The artist gives us clues and then allows our imagination to write our own story.

What would be your story of this woman gazing in her mirror?

It could be fun to share...