Paris Flea Market Style
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Shop and dream Paris style.
If you love French interior design and bargain hunting, Paris is the place where your shopping daydreams come true. Claudia Strasser takes us on a winding tour through the Parisian flea markets finding decorative pieces all along the way.
Strasser discusses ways to bring the look to your home by building collections and looking for furniture and accessories to reflect your individual style whether it's Napoleon III, Louis XV, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Moderne or Belle Epoque. Whatever it is, you're sure to find rare pieces that will be treasured in your home. Shop and dream your way around the Paris flea markets with this deliciously colorful stroll through the city's best markets and take home special pieces that are destined to become heirlooms.
A stylized map gives readers the lay of the land and Claudia shares her tips on where to find what, trade secrets, her favorite dealers and advice on shipping items home. So, now take a seat and take a trip to Paris!
Claudia Strasser began her career in 1993 when she opened a boutique in New York City’s East Village and filled it with French boudoir furniture and accessories. She painted and repaired flea market finds, reincarnating them into the sparkling treasures. Now she travels to Paris throughout the year, taking small groups shopping and sharing resources. She works on books and articles while designing a furniture line and doing some decorating projects. Claudia’s style and business have been featured in scores of magazines. She is the author of The Paris Apartment: Romantic Décor on a Flea Market Budget (1997).
Claudia splits her time between New York, Paris, and Miami.
Claudia Strasser
Claudia Strasser began her career in 1993 when she opened a boutique in New York City’s East Village and filled it with French boudoir furniture and accessories. She painted and repaired flea market finds, reincarnating them into the sparkling treasures. Now she travels to Paris throughout the year, taking small groups shopping and sharing resources. She works on books and articles while designing a furniture line and doing some decorating projects. Claudia’s style and business have been featured in scores of magazines. She is the author of The Paris Apartment: Romantic Décor on a Flea Market Budget (1997). The Paris Apartment boutique is now a .com, and Claudia lives in Miami.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It was a fun read. Exciting to think about what it would be like to wander about the Parisian flea markets and the gems to be found.
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Paris Flea Market Style - Claudia Strasser
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Introduction
It’s a brisk, Parisian Sunday with bright sunny skies and no sign of rain. And that makes it the perfect day to spend drifting through the enchanting flea markets of Paris. On my walk to the metro, I cross the Seine and stop at my favorite brasserie for a café au lait pour emporter (to take) and a butter croissant that doesn’t quite make it to the metro.
After relishing the petit déjeuner and quick dose of solar energy, I continue on, heading to Vanves, my favorite little flea market in Paris.
The Paris Apartment is more than my business. It feeds my love affair with all things French boudoir, and I seek out romantic ways to dress them for my clients and sometimes for myself! I look to the great designers of Paris for inspiration, women like Madame Pompadour and Marie Antoinette, who invented these exquisite rooms three hundred years ago and set the standard we still hold dear today. I can spend hours in a treasure trove like Vanves and never see it all. It’s filled with pretty things from slipper chairs to powder puffs. Each piece tells a story of who may have owned it, and it’s great fun to imagine what her life was like, her loves, her social life, and her time in Paris.
It’s easy to get lost looking at Art Deco fashion magazines, handwritten love letters, baroque and rococo engravings, antique vanity sets, old photos, leather books, town and country maps, and tiny details like ribbons and buttons. Sometimes the smaller pieces can tell a lot about slices of life we can only imagine.
As I stroll the market, camera in one hand and coffee in the other, I realize that there is no place I’d rather be than with the people who take such pleasure in collecting and preserving what they bring to the streets each week.
Hours later, the smell from the coffee truck at the corner tells me I’m close to the end and the market will close soon. I sense a bit of urgency; it’s time to make decisions. If I want the boudoir lamps, now’s the time, or they will surely be gone in my next pass.
The things I find each week fill me with joy, knowing I am now the steward of a magnificent work of art or exceptional find, even when it’s just a scrap of ribbon.
Travel is a marvelous teacher. It gives us the chance to step outside our everyday world and transports us to a completely different life, setting and culture. Our perception of reality is different when we’re out of our element; maybe we’re a little more aware, and with that heightened sensitivity, the best of a place can come to life.
While some destinations are a must-see at least once in our lives, others beckon us back again and again. For so many, that’s the case with the city that belongs to the world and is our eternal muse—Mademoiselle Paris. I must confess I’m still in love and ache every time I leave.
What is the pull to this magical city? For me it’s the wealth of inspiration at every turn, a city unchanged and stage for great minds, so rich in design and creativity for centuries. It’s a place that continues to reveal layers of a splendid life, almost a fairy tale in its infinite opulence and incomprehensible in its magnificence.
But it’s not the monuments and the museums that unveil the tiny clues as to what life was like between the time of, say, Marie Antoinette and Coco Chanel. To touch the past in Paris, there’s only one place to go back in time, looking through love letters, heirlooms and relics left for us to decipher. Only at the flea markets can