09 Saturday Apr 2011
Posted in Flea Market Style
Tags
Architectural salvage, Flea Market, Flea Market Style, French Antiques, French curiosities, Garden, Rough Luxe
So much to see at this year’s Atelier de Campagne sale…
here’s a first close up glimpse…
from the myriad grays of time-worn metals and stone
and woody neutrals to fun brights….
a wide swath of the European flea markets fresh off the boat…
More info at Atelier de Campagne website here
or blog here…sale continues tomorrow!
03 Sunday Apr 2011
Posted in Antiques, Flea Market Style
From Belgian and French Antiques post here
This is the view from nearly the start of the line as we
waited for last year’s Atelier de Campagne container sale.
More photos at Bright Notes from the Antiques Sale here
To see what my sister did with one of her finds see Bedhead here
A few photos I didn’t post last year…
Spring blossoms were everywhere…
I would say Johan and Trinidad specialize in French and Belgian
garden antiques, though they have plenty of chandeliers and
trumeau mirrors, industrial finds, shutters and vintage furniture.
If you are curious about Johan and Trinidad …
Their bio can be found here
A corner of their conservatory room…
Hold tags are handed out as you wait in line
and quickly appear on favorite items…
He (or she) who hesitates is lost…
All above are my photos from last year’s sale. Many items
coming in for this sale and current inventory can be found here
More info about Atelier at Flea Markets in Alameda and Long Beach
as well as a great photo of a container being unloaded here
They’ll be at Remnant of the Past in Nipomo on April 30th.
Loved Trinidad’s latest post on Aging with Grace and Beauty here
The next container is due in August for those that want
to rent a beach house nearby and make the trek! Now wouldn’t
that be fun!
Back to the garden…hope you’ve all had a
wonderful weekend!
07 Monday Jun 2010
Posted in Flea Market Style
One of my dear readers, Colette, has just dipped her toes into blog land! Hailing from
the intriguing world of South Africa, dripping with talent and good taste, on a steady
diet of all things French, and currently rifling through the brocantes in Chateauroux
with her husband and adorable daughter, Colette is a natural with her camera,
capturing exactly what I want to see as if I was peering over her shoulder or elbowing
her out of the way for a choice piece of French linen. The photos of her home in South
Africa are incredible. I love the expectant feeling captured as furniture is unwrapped,
ladders still scaling the upper reaches of her gorgeous vaulted and beamed ceilings.
Last November Colette sent me a charming email…
Dear Trish, I discovered your blog by chance one evening and just simply forgot everything around me...it was like picking up this most wonderful book and being transported into another world...so inspiring and so reliable- I receive your feed every eve at almost the same time - between 10pm and 11pm in South Africa....so it is my relax and enjoy moment....my last thoughts and the best bedtime story to fall asleep with and dream on .....gosh that sounds soppy, but just love your blog! congrats on your 200th! kind regards from another francophile....way down South..
What perfection in a photo: the symmetry of the arched tall windows,
the French parquet floor, nuanced cafe au lait walls, the glistening globes
of crystal dripping down from the ceiling’s enormous height…
We’ve exchanged many emails since and I’m so excited that she’s taking this leap…
Like so many of us, she is an amazing woman, with a wonderful and unique
perspective towards the beauty in her world and the desire to reach out and share it….
In one of her first posts at La Brocanteuse Colette writes:
Both my husband (de Villiers – Nel) and myself(nee-Marais) descend from the French Huguenots that
arrived in South Africa in 1685. These French Huguenots that fled France when the edict of Nantes
was repealed , settled in the Western Cape, most of them in the wine regions of Stellenbosch, and a
little village not far from where we live now, called Franschoek (if you translate this directly:
“French corner”). My maiden name was Marais- we traced it all the way back to this little village
between valleys and mountains in the Luberon.
A wonderful start…the first step is always the hardest!
A glimpse into yet another beautiful world…
Visit La Brocanteuse here…
Tag along while she travels through
the south of France…and be sure to say hello!
