Madame Bordeau has style: with oversized, color-block, 1970s Christian Dior glasses frames; bright red Chanel nail polish; and slender arms decked out in bling. She has an eye for nice objects. She is very french.
She invited me to join her last Sunday at one of the many outdoor flea markets, common to this region. So I did, if only to watch her pick up an object with her delicate hands and examine its quality. She tinkers and she ponders. She takes great delight in a well-made object. She sees details which are hidden to me.
I'm not sure why or how, but this little region in the hills of the Pyrenees is a heaven for antique collectors. Somehow, a bulk of Christolfe flatware sets, crystal decanters and glasses, ceramic ducks, and lots of linens, laces and draperies have ended up on folding card tables being sold for nearly nothing. Madame Bordea has purchased sapphires for the price of a toy in a grocery store gum ball machine, she has found sterling silver ornaments for the price of a can of coca cola.
She invited me to join her last Sunday at one of the many outdoor flea markets, common to this region. So I did, if only to watch her pick up an object with her delicate hands and examine its quality. She tinkers and she ponders. She takes great delight in a well-made object. She sees details which are hidden to me.
I'm not sure why or how, but this little region in the hills of the Pyrenees is a heaven for antique collectors. Somehow, a bulk of Christolfe flatware sets, crystal decanters and glasses, ceramic ducks, and lots of linens, laces and draperies have ended up on folding card tables being sold for nearly nothing. Madame Bordea has purchased sapphires for the price of a toy in a grocery store gum ball machine, she has found sterling silver ornaments for the price of a can of coca cola.
I would love one of each of the tins in the first photographs please, they are beautiful!
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