Paris: At the flea market with Daniel et Lili
Today, at the flea market at St. Ouen I fell in love with the shop Daniel et Lili and I’m sure I’m not the first. It is stuffed to the brim, floor to ceiling, with clear plastic boxes full of buttons, hair clips, combs, earrings, beads, vintage ribbon, wallpaper, decals of all sorts of monuments in Europe, plastic bangle from the 70s and 80s (including some florescent colors I haven’t seen SINCE the 80s), cards, religious icons of the Mother Mary and misc. paper goods (more on that later).
I spent two hours looking at everything twice. A designer’s dream — a museum of sorts to accessory deign in the last hundred years. I felt like I was stuffing my face with the best buttery croissant except it was plastic bric-a-brac and paper goods I was gorging on. I ended up with red paper lobsters, gold paper elephants, tiny pink pigs, elegant blue and pink paper lovebirds nesting, cowboys, circus animals, christmas trees (in multiples), a decal or two, easter bunnies in elegant pastels, some interesting cards that I bought for their folds (they might become Abigail Stationery cards someday) and two pink art deco-y combs that made me feel cool and sexy in 90 degrees.
I’ll post images of all the loot as soon as I am home in Brooklyn with my scanner. UPDATE — Here they are!
http://www.lilietdaniel.com/pages/vernaison.htm
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August 28th, 2007 22:44
[…] I bought the gold frog at Swallow the first year I lived in NY and hadn’t figured out how to merge my work life and my creative life. The eraser I bought when we decided that my taking the job in NY was the right thing, even it meant living apart. The dish with clips was my great grandmother’s and the paperweight next to it was my grandmother’s. The tiny “stamps” box was given to me by my mother in-law after I blogged it here. And the tiny red chair I bought at an antiques store on the cape last week. I was inspired over vacation to finish a project that has been on the back burner for years: framing my favorite vintage bits in tiny frames. Here they are! I’m really pleased with how they came out. The top two are vintage 6 cent US postal stamps, the second two are vintage Wills cigarette cards from the 1930s from New Zealand and the last row is another vintage stamp and my personal favorite, two elephant chromos from the 1900s from the Paris flea market! They are all up for sale on Etsy so tell your friends and start your own desk-scape! Tag: Design Scout […]