Transparency at the table
Sébastien Masey (La Fleur de Lys) is showing a series of 19th century blue opaline glass plates, on a fine 1860 English china service from the Pinder Bourne pottery in Stoke-on-Trent. Opaline...
View ArticleStack ‘em up
Shed, loft and workshop conversions have inspired a style of interior decoration using industrial metal furnishings, such as the cult Tolix stackable steel chair. You can hunt for industrial design...
View ArticleSearch for signed pieces at Art Strasbourg Gallery
Bertrand Fontaine and Eric Lecoeur promote craft designers like Pierre Guariche, Pierre Paulin and Jacques Hitier in their Art Strasbourg Gallery. On their Chatou stand you may find a pair of...
View ArticleLOL
A funny thing happened on the way to the fo(i)rum. Philippe le Ray’s stand is a place to laugh out loud – full of nostalgia, memory and childhood joys. Old toys, advertising panels and posters, shop...
View ArticleMake it mysterious
The Manderliers’ stand is a real curiosity cabinet, an endless source of inspiration. Here, everything is unusual, each object an actor in a little theatre of the strange. The post Make it...
View ArticleSpice up the decor
Florence de Boissieu is an experienced interior decorator. She knows where to find light-hearted, unusual furnishings and ornaments to spice up the scene : Think giant blue casino wheel or 1950s...
View ArticleWhere there’s a will, there’s willow
When it comes to interiors, nature is in again. Natural fibres such as willow, rattan and bamboo crop up everywhere at Comptoir Yamaska Nord, a way-out curiosity shop based in the Finistère region of...
View ArticleThe art of deco
Marine de Parscau is a young woman with a stage designer’s talent for creating evocative atmospheres, heightened by the use of lively coloured objects. She sells 20th century furniture that she...
View ArticleClassics revised
The Galerie des Victoires specialises in clocks and ornamental bronzes from the mid-18th and early 19th centuries, a time when French horology was admired around the world. This was the period, in...
View ArticleMixed seating
When it comes to chairs, mixing is a must, allowing daring shifts and style associations. On Raoul W’s stand, against the backdrop of a giant clock and a spiral staircase, a black American chair,...
View ArticleDISCOVER NEW TALENTS AT THE CHATOU FAIR
The Chatou Fair regularly welcomes new participants, vetted and selected for the quality of their stock by the SNCAO-GA. Several were first-time exhibitors at the last Fair. They’re unusual people,...
View ArticleSignal tribal chez Aloa Antiquités
C’est la première fois que Gérard et Laurence Lenfant exposeront sur la Foire de Chatou. Dans 15 hautes vitrines, ces passionnés de curiosités ethniques et grands connaisseurs en archéologie montreront...
View ArticleA mix of style with Bertrand Fontaine
Three meter high totems from Papua, tribal art objects, Vallauris ceramic and 1950’s furniture, designer lights and orientalist paintings are some of the pieces on sale. Bertrand Fontaine puts a lot...
View ArticleAn evening with Patrick Carrière
One of the great things about the Chatou fair is meeting face to face with true professionals and experts of the trade. Patrick Carrière is known as being one of the world’s rare restorers of billiard...
View Article‘Carnival figures’ Photo exhibition by Jean-Denis Morat
“The Chatou fair is a window of the past opening out on to contemporary creation. It is an ideal spot to gather popular contemporary art with traditional roots” Jean Nowicki, President of SNCAO-GA and...
View ArticleSearch for signed pieces at Art Strasbourg Gallery
Bertrand Fontaine and Eric Lecoeur promote craft designers like Pierre Guariche, Pierre Paulin and Jacques Hitier in their Art Strasbourg Gallery. On their Chatou stand you may find a pair of...
View ArticleThe wild world of Jean Poulain
Travel and exploration is perfectly portrayed in the works by Jean Poulain, an African Belgian painter (1884/1967) which Bruno Thiteux presents at his stand. An adventurous artist, born in Belgian...
View ArticleElegance by Franck Bridenne
Franck Bridenne is a cabinet-maker particularly passionate about artisanal objects and the period of time in which they were made, individually before serial and mass production. He fishes out...
View ArticleTribal Signal at Aloa Antiquités
It is the first time that Gérard and Laurence Lenfant are exhibiting at the Chatou fair. The passionate duo and archaeology experts will gather over 700 ethnic objects in 15 large glass cabinets. An...
View ArticleA mix of style with Bertrand Fontaine
Three meter high totems from Papua, tribal art objects, Vallauris ceramic and 1950’s furniture, designer lights and orientalist paintings are some of the pieces on sale. Bertrand Fontaine puts a lot...
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