Flea market – advice from a pro
Flea market – advice from a pro
A PASSION FOR DISCOVERY
Why this title: the passion for discovery? Because discovery is a passion, just like China, just like collecting. Because to hunt is to combine the past with the present, to resuscitate a sleeping object, to answer the poet’s question: inanimate objects, you have a soul. Because to hunt is to act in an ecological way.
THE CHINEURS: A BIG FAMILY
Amateurs or professionals, bargain hunters or collectors, all have one thing in common, passion. Each week you will go with them to hunt in fairs and flea markets, in flea markets and shows, flea markets and garage sales, throughout France and even beyond. And soon, without knowing each other, you will recognize yourself as part of the same family.
CHINA: A SCHOOL OF PATIENCE
To hunt is not to go with the family to a store, to buy a secretary 1.12 m wide, so that it finds its place exactly between the fireplace and the living room window.
It is not going to look in the garage sale which will be held the following Saturday, at the corner of the street, the complete series of Banania boxes to brighten up a kitchen shelf; even if you read the day before, in a decoration magazine, that promotional items are in fashion.
In both cases, you risk exposing yourself to an unpleasant disappointment because hunting is not to find, without a doubt, a piece of furniture or an object from past centuries, like buying an item seen in a catalog or on an advertisement. . On the contrary, China is a proof, and not a test, of patience and pugnacity, comparable to that of a researcher or an explorer. And the more ancient, fragile and delicate the object, the more rare it will be, but the more the find will take for its discoverer an inestimable value.
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