LE PETIT CABINET DE CURIOSITES

Un air de Japon ...

Today , For lunch I've been to an exposition in Marseilles

Called :

DESSINS DE PIERRE BONNARD ( drawings of Pierre Bonnard)

MUSEE CANTINI MAY 12TH TO SEPTEMBER 2ND

One part of Bonnard's Art is mostly inspired by japanese art , in particularly japanese etching's art .

I love this part , Japanese art and inspiration are so great , it creates such a zen attitude and decoration

It is very minimalist but it means so much

So his drawings reminds me the inflence of Japan in decoration .

I look around me and I've found some fabrics and things I want to share with you

Pair of XIXth century large plate in japanese porcelain , the drawing is so modern

Geishas design fabric from Gaston , in sale in our show room .( price 88 euro / meter) others colors

Ikebana design fabric from Brochier (price 114 euro / meter, others colors available), in sale in our show room . I love this fabric that reminds me the japanese floral art

  Tricia Guild also was inspired by Japan in her last collection , available in our show room

MORE ABOUT ME EPISODE .2

LET'S CONTINUE IN THE "MORE ABOUT ME" SECTION

HERE I'M GOING TO TELL YOU OR TO SHOW YOU WHAT I LIKE IN DECORATION

I LIKE WHEN HOME SMELL GOOD , SOMETHING THAT REMINDS US CHILDHOOD OR A TRIP OR A FEELING ...

Marie Antoinette canddle from P. Frey . it smells like powder ...it is magic ( it reminds me my childhood)

I LIKE TO MIX CLASSICAL AND MODERN

a black modern lamp in my classical living room

Or USE OLD DESIGN FABRIC NEWLY COLOURED

E. Petit fabric  called Saint Cloud , do you see these new colours ...TERRIFIC

I LOVE BLACK AND WHITE AND FORNASETTI DESIGN

Fornasetti cushions , they mix 2 things I like : fornasetti design and his surrealist and paradoxical way of life and black and white

I LOVE MISSONI HOME DESIGN

Missoni fabric in sale in my shop with trimmings on it . I love also trimmings

And last but not least and I'm sure you already know it

MY DAD'S TASTE AND WORK

And the winner is

WELL Nobody have found the exact solution.

You have come very close to it , We can say that Phyllis was pretty pretty close to it . I guess we can use them to make hats.

I love boxes because before opening it during 10 seconds you imagine what is inside ...

So GREAT

Ladies and Gentlemen it was just silky leaves

It comes from a private chapel's sacristy , it was I think to made religious decoration .

There was an old small metal box ...so sweet

I've bought some others incredible things ,among others religious linens ...

To be continued ....

Investigation

Guess What is inside this cute " BON MARCHE " box . I will reveal it tomorrow and it will to sell

I give you a clue ,it is in the picture below

I'm sure some of you are going to love it .

This bow was found this week end at the flea market in Hyères

Don't run to the post There is no picture of it ...SO let's play with your imagination

8 things about me

I'm going to play Constance's game and to reveal 8 things about me
I would very quick as I'm at my friend's house
First : I'm the mix of several cultures and origins
2nd : I'm tolerant , my origins teached me to be tolerant
3rd : I'm a great listener , I love to listen to others' poeple life , their problems . and I try to help them each day
4th : I try each day to do something good , called in France "une BA " (bonne action) I try to help , to listen , to do something somebody likes ...
5th : I love to be free , I hate that somebody tells me what to do . I'm not selfish at all .But nobody leaves my life instead of me . It is may be why I'm single . I've lived a long time with a guy . But he was too heavy
6th :I love the others . It is almost the same that I'm a great listener ...I love to share with poeple . I'm a memeber of the rotary international . And thanks to that I help poeple almost everyday by giving my time , my experience , sometimes my love
7 th :I love blogging , I love to be a part of this community
8th : I'm funny , I take life as it comes . Everyday is a good day . Carpe Diem . I'm an easy living . Poeple say that about me . I love LIFE

antiques addcition

I have an antiques addiction ???

Is it bad

I do not think so .

Well my house is full .

My shop more or less

Today , I've bought a lot of things but I 've just taken some pictures in the flea market

Tell me what do you think about it

a XIXth century syrian chair ( that is just the back) I'm in love with this chair . For my orientalist ambiance . I'm going to keep it for me

a XIX th century terracotta flowerpot . I will take a better picture

some religious things ....

I will show you the rest later

Flea market on the french Riviera

This morning , I am at the flea market in Hyères , a town on the french riviera.

I love this town because it is the hometown of such a modern villa that is now a museum , it is called la villa noailles . It is just incredible . It is now a museum of "modern art decoratifs" .

I have dreamed about what I can find there .May be some provencal painting

                                   Detail from a provencal painting

As soon as I'm back I will try to write a post about what I've found.

When you come around here , ask me for good advice . I will give you the best spots to " chiner" ( buy antiques) and I can even come with you .

I love to share this passion

Treasure hunt or mes petites curiosités

It has been now almost 10 monts that I have been buying all the interior of a big castle.

This house is around 3000 square meters.

I go every week , to buy furniture , curiosités , linen , sculptures , garden furniture ....

Can you imagine to buy everything in the house . Soon I will bring back to my little show room an entire XVIII wood panelling with fireplace and Versailles style  wooden floor . The entire house has been remodeling.

By the way , this day makes me so happy because I've found litlle " curiosités " full of poesy ...

This is just one part of my treasure hunt ,  four baby jesus crowns still wrapped in their original papers , cristal and jewellry (some flowers from religious candelebras )

I even buy this library's ladder and this linen in the background . It is old mattress linen

So today it was cristal and crowns , if you want to see more poetic crowns , let's go to see the incredible blog of Donna O'Brien .

Flowers of metal and glass , aren't they beautiful ? 

at least they are not short-lived ....

A visit to a friend

Today I came to visit  one of my colleague and friend

He shows me all his treasures and he had a lot ...

But the one I prefered was the little box with the  2 dollies . There ware so small and so delicate .

There were with a little 1876 diairy . I love the way I felt when I see these things together . I've thought about the young girl who should have owned these marvels .

She should have taken care of them like her babies

She should have loved them

She should have written each day her diairy ...

The girl's antiques of my colleague . If you want more information . Contact me

the second thing I like was a wood hat box with travel stamps

and I've thought about the man who wore this hat

About the trips he did

About the life he had ....

My colleague's antiques , if you want more information . Contact me

Come back from auction race

                   YES YES YES I CAME BACK WITH A TREASURE

                                 A KIND OF HUNTING TROPHY

I HAVE WON THE MOST WONDERFUL THING : A 50'S GAME BOX , IT IS BRAND NEW no kid play with it , I hope it is going to make somebody happy . Any way it makes me very happy.

Then a very romantic antique : a letter from Louis Aragon to his famous lover Elsa Triollet . He wrote it in Hotel Beauvau in Marseilles. I hadn't seen it before bidding . And I've thought it was a romantic letter as Louis Aragon was used to writing  to Elsa

                                                       BUT

Disappointment it was just an ordinary letter saying he will come back to Paris later ....

I don't care this couple was such a romantic symbol that I'm going to frame it and to keep it

Aragon wrote the most beautiful poem about love and Jean Ferrat sang it , it is better than LA VIE EN ROSE it is called " aimer à perdre la raison " the translation will be I guess : Loving until losting his reason .

This song is unbelievable

The last but not least a pair of XIXth century asiatic plates

                                            IT WAS A LUCKY DAY

BY THE WAY except my pseudo romantic letter , everything is to sell in my shop or by internet ....ask me the price if you are interested in