Antiques and flea market

To represent all the trends of Antiques and Brocante on the “European Antiques and Design Markets of Broglie” is the philosophy of our events. The professionals of the Antiques, Brocante and Design are true passers-by of history and heritage, allowing the visitors to cross the times and the styles while being assured of the origin and the quality of the objects proposed. To represent all the tendencies of the Antiques and Brocante on the “European Markets of the Brocante and the Design of Broglie” is the philosophy of our events. The professionals of Antiques and Design are true passers-by of history and heritage, allowing visitors to cross eras and styles while being assured of the origin and quality of the objects offered.

To meet professionals who know how to talk about their objects and who love their job, is to give life back to sleeping objects and to avoid waste… To have a taste for the old, isn’t it crazy contemporary?

Going to the “European Brocante and Design Markets of Broglie” is also to let yourself be carried away by a careful staging, to let yourself be caught up by a memory reactivated by a simple bowl seen in your grandparents’ china cabinet… Our markets are gigantic trunks of treasures in the open air!

Walking through the aisles of the “European Brocante and Design Markets of Broglie” is also letting yourself be carried away by a careful staging, letting yourself be caught up by a memory reactivated by a simple bowl glimpsed in your grandparents’ china cabinet… Our markets are gigantic trunks full of open-air treasures!

When we talk about Design we define an era starting in the 20th century, therefore relatively modern, with the use of “new” materials such as metal, bent wood, or ABS, plexiglass or resin. Famous architects and designers such as Le Corbusier or Charlotte Perriand immediately come to mind. For the past twenty years, we have witnessed an explosion in demand for Scandinavian design due to the beauty of teak, the simplicity of forms, and the qualities embodied by the famous enfilades that are as beautiful as they are functional.

The industrial style finds its sources in the world of the factory including study stools, sorting furniture, shelves, work tables, articulated lamps. This furniture is remarkable for its sturdiness, its functionality, its sober colors and its clear lines.

They cover the decorative arts of the XVII°, XVIII° and the first half of the XIX° century including the Napoleon III period. The Classical Antiques essentially embody the French art of living of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Cabinet of Curiosities or Wunderkammer in German, which literally means Cabinet of Wonders, includes unusual, rare, surprising, sometimes even disturbing objects that never cease to amaze and surprise us. It can also be souvenirs of distant journeys, ancient ethnic objects linked to ancestral customs and rites, scientific instruments for measuring time such as old clocks with complications or objects of observation such as the microscope, as well as the pictorial representation of these curiosities around which an entire ancient literature revolves.

The photographs using old processes seduce more and more: collodion, calotypes, daguerreotypes… But the old cameras in particular of the beginning of the photography have also their batch of collectors.

What we are looking for when we talk about old literature, beyond an author or a year of edition, is also the binding work that creates a case for the text and the graphics of the book in question. The binding can use wood, leather, metal and has a particular aesthetic.

Here we talk about vintage in the true sense of the word. Vintage is a very large variety of women’s and men’s clothing as well as shoes. We also add accessories such as scarves, belts, hats, sunglasses and bags.

In the spotlight are lots of napkins, antique tablecloths, linen dish towels, Alsatian kelsch in linen, cotton or half-breed that will delight lovers of tableware, as well as monogrammed linens.