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10 Jul 2023
The Paris Market
presents...
A BASTILLE BROCANTE!
We always like to create something special for Bastille Day, and this year's trip to Paris presented the most perfect inspiration: a true brocante.
For four days, we invite you to sift through centuries of artwork and history, from a vast array of medals to furnishings, cathedral remnants and the most delicate linens. Our store feels part-museum at the best of times, but this will be a true transformation.
Most especially because Paula has decided it's time to release a selection of her most treasured French antiques to the store! Antique ribbons, entomology boxes, silk parachutes and rosaries and so much more.
What is a Brocante?
In a phrase—elegant chaos. Brocantes are akin to a flea market, but in the most French way possible.
Every week in Paris or scattered across the towns in Provence, you can walk onto the street just after sunrise and find rows of tables have suddenly appeared. Some might be sheltered with airy white awnings, others scattered across a worn blanket on the ground.
Priceless antiques may rest alongside aluminum charms, perfectly faded aprons, copper pots, or tintypes of people lost to time. They are an artist's dream, filled with well-crafted raw materials ready to be preserved or transformed into something new!
“On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur.”
Antoine des Saint-Exupery
What can you expect?
Our staff will lay a scene as close to authentic as it's possible to create in the American South!
Petite relics, medals, jewelry, and the most fragile pieces will rest below glass while the larger Louis XIIIth furnishings will rest in whatever arrangement our display artist sees fit to design
(but if you glance at our instagram tags, you'll see he rarely disappoints).
At the café, you'll find a special on French 75s.
And for Bastille Day only…we're bringing out the cotton candy machine!
What if you're not in Savannah?
As of July 14th, Bastille Day, we will have uploaded no fewer than 50 new items to our Vintage category under Featured on The Paris Market website!
Many of these come from Paula's studio or home, all of them hand-selected by her over the last decade of trips to Paris and Provence. Each has its own history, aligned with the design, maker, craft, or from the mouths of French vendors themselves. We've carefully catalogued every one.
Here are a few items, big and small, that she has treasured in the past—but expect quite a bit more to come over the next few days.
All links may be found by clicking through images.
Explore our Vintage Collection further here.
Photography of Louise Pascal by Jamie Beck
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