Post on 07-Jan-2017
Behind the Scenes Design Inspiration Tour ofthe Paris Flea Market with
Currey & Co and Traditional Home Magazine
Toma Clark Haines The Antiques Diva Presents:
Inspiration Tour of the Paris Flea MarketJoin us on a behind the scenes tour of the Paris Flea Market Marché aux Puces with the teams fromCurrey & Co and Traditional Home Magazine.
What is an Inspiration Tour?Interior designers, furniture manufacturers and showrooms, architects, landscapers, shelter magazinesand design industry professionals stay ahead of trends in design, art, cuisine and fashion by traveling tolocations that inspire and nurture their creativity and are an opportunity to see first-hand emerging trendsin the design world.
The Antiques Diva & Co provides curated, custom guided inspiration tours throughout Europe and Asiafor design industry professionals. Tours are private, or offered to carefully selected groups of industryprofessionals for a unique opportunity to connect and build relationships – and provide, what else? –Design Inspiration - as well as opportunities to buy antiques abroad. On tour we translate, negotiateand liaise clients with international shippers or use our own in-house shipping division to help clients getpurchases home sweet home across the pond.
Who’s Who – by row front center: Andrew Josephto left: Andrea Combat, Brownlee Curreyback: Diva Guide Danielle Pelletiermiddle: Toma Clark Haines, The Antiques Divaright: Bethanne Matari, Amy Kurzner, Cecil Adams Join our group of design industry professionals from Currey & Company as weimmerse ourselves in the past and present of the Paris Flea Market!
"The Currey & Co design team spent a full day with TheAntiques Diva & Co CEO Toma Clark Haines & Chief Paris
Diva Guide Danielle Pelletier at Les Puce de Paris.
Having been to the market more than 20 times on our own,they took us to the backside of the flea market where we’d
never been before – and it was all NEW to us. We found lotsof inspirations and a few concrete ideas on new furniture
designs. The best part of the day (other than a superb lunch)was a tour of vintage clothing & fabric shops. We could havespent all day there! Toma and Danielle seemed to know just
about every vendor at the flea market and were full ofhistorical information on how Les Puce came to be.
All in all, it was a thoroughly entertaining day - oh, and did Imention champagne! Bubbly always makes an excursion more
fun.”
Bethanne Matari, Currey & Company
ABOUT CURREY & CO.Currey & Company is a wholesalemanufacturer of distinctive homefurnishings products. We are bestknown for our lighting products(chandeliers, wall sconces, table andfloor lamps) as well as interior furniture,garden furniture and accessories.
A Bit of Background:Currey & Company is a wholesale manufacturer of home furnishings products. Best known forlighting products such as chandeliers, wall sconces, table and floor lamps (as well as hosting THEBEST PARTIES at High Point Market) they actually started as a purveyor of historic gardenfurnishings based on designs from the Winterthur Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. Thesecollections were joined by a very American collection of garden whimsies, birdhouses and rustic twigfurniture.
Today the team at Currey & Co traverses the globe seeking exceptional design inspiration. With aworkforce in Atlanta and the Philippines, Currey & Company brings to the marketplace merchandisethat not only speaks of the touch of the human hand, but also utilizes a myriad of natural materials.Hand-forged iron products have long been the specialty of the company, but the range of materialshas been extended to include a variety of materials such as hand-carved wood, porcelain and brassin addition to concrete hand formed “faux bois.” Seashells and other natural materials also figurestrongly in the Currey & Company product line.
With over 2000 antique dealers in the narrow winding alleys of le Marché aux Puces and coveringmore than 7 hectares, the Paris Flea Market can be overwhelming.
As the exclusive official tour guides of the Paris Flea Market Paul Bert Serpette, The AntiquesDiva™ & Co knows every corner like the back of our hand.
The Paris Flea Market isn’t just for antiques lovers – although some of the best 17th and 18th centuryFrench and European antiques are found at les Puces. Vintage, Mid-Century Modern, and Asianpieces continue to sky-rocket in popularity at the market, especially with younger designers and chicshoppers and millennials who are searching for unique pieces that express their personal style.
Lighting in all shapes and sizes and provenances is sought after. Many fixtures are repurposed fromantique artifacts and salvage into one-of-a-kind pieces that can be shipped or hand-carried to theirnew home across the pond. And anything Italian literally flies off the shelf these days.
Vintage fashion never goes out of style at the Paris Flea Market. Lèches les vitrines – lick thewindows – is what you’ll want to do when you see how the talented shopkeepers at le Marché styletheir windows. France has long been the capital of fashion, and most of it can’t be discovered online.The alleys are filled with decades of French fashion that cram every nook and corner of the stalls.
Dresses, handbags, shoes, hats, coats, gloves, jewelry… with colors and artistry ready to inspire yournext design!
Where do you get your design inspiration?
Currey & Company designer Aimee Kurzner
Currey
& Comp
any’s B
riallen De
milune
Did you know one of my favorite designs at Currey & Company was inspired by a Chanelnecklace?
Designer Aimee Kurzner took inspiration from Chanel’s infamous camellia flower and turned it intothe hardware on Currey & Company’s Briallen Demilune. The design was so popular it was anawards finalist for the 2016 Pinnacle Awards!
Getting off the beaten path is essential for exploring the market – When we went out with Currey& Co we explored deep into the market to places in back alleys even these seasoned veterans ofdesign hadn’t been!
Vintage passementerie of all kinds can be found at the Paris Fleas: from French fabric and frills tobuttons and bows to feathers and furs to tassels and trims, these elaborate treasures inspirecreativity and bring out your inner diva.
Large-scale pieces in all shapes, sizes and budgets and for every room in the home are inabundance at les Puces. A peacock blue mid-Century chair may inspire your next collection! Exoticand extravagant designs stimulate your senses and your imagination!
When walking the Paris Flea Market we were inspired by the bold colors and statement pieces,especially those with a natural organic vibe as well as fantastical Rococo curves and modern angularforms.
One of the biggest trends in interior design is bringing the outdoors inside!
Architectural salvage, garden antiques and artifacts inspire design for indoors and outdoors,restaurants and hotels, gardens and beyond. Craftsmanship and interpretation of shape and formare displayed in the artistry of these pieces carved from marble and wood, or shaped in iron andsteel and fibers.
Touring the Paris Flea Market is serious business – NOT! Around every corner there’s something tomake us smile, encourage us to reach out and touch or to rethink our preconceptions of howsomething should look or be used.
left: Traditional Home editor Kari Costas joined the Currey & Co team for design inspiration at theParis Flea Market.
Sante!
Immersion in the design past leads to hunger in the present!
After a day of touring the Paris Flea Market, the design professionals from Traditional HomeMagazine, Currey & Co, Andrew Joseph PR and The Antiques Diva & Co share a traditionalFrench meal – with champagne, bien sur! – at les Puces and continue to build relationships andfriendships on their shared experiences.
Antiques Buying ToursWe offer a wide range of custom tour options for your budget, styleand time frame. On tour we translate, negotiate and liaise with ashipper to help get your purchases home sweet home across the pond.
Buying ServicesWhen you can’t travel abroad to source antiques in person we offerAntique Buying Services for trade professionals such as InteriorDesigners, Antique Dealers, and Store Owners.
Shipping and Storage ServicesFine art and antiques shipping services from Europe to destinationsaround the globe. On tour or in our buying services we ship or liaisewith your shipper, fill out the purchase orders and shippingpaperwork, saving you time and simplifying the process for buyingantiques abroad.
About The Antiques Diva &Co
American expat Toma Clark Haines launched The Antiques Diva &Co in 2008:
Toma Clark Haines is an entrepreneur, writer, international speaker,global tastemaker, lifestyle consultant and the founder and CEO ofThe Antiques Diva® & Co, Europe’s largest antiques touring andsourcing company. She is recognized for her antiques sourcingexpertise by design experts including Newell Turner former editor ofHouse Beautiful and current Editorial Director of Hearst DesignGroup, Michael Boodro Editor in Chief of Elle Décor and DominiqueCorlett deputy editor of the English publication Homes & Antiquesmagazines (the official magazine of The Antiques Roadshow). ClarkHaines has been endorsed by Adam Jabko, CEO of Esteem Mediaand Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles, Editor in Chief Elizabeth Ralls.
Toma Clark Haines is The Antiques Diva