Continuing to find ideas for those of you visiting France and looking for a good day out. On the 13th May next, in the beautiful town of Beaune, 3 hours south of Paris, there will be the annual sale and brocante event La Vaisselle des Chefs.
On the website for the sale, you can even find a list of the Chefs de Cuisine and the articles they will be contributing for sale. We learn for example that one chef will be selling old hotel silver, another will be selling cutlery and table linen and that a château restaurant will be offering a service of porcelain decorated with their coat of arms.
I don't expect to get there that day , but if any of you make it, I would love to hear what you find: your very own culinary loot shoot!
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Last year while traveling around Europe we had a short stop in Beaune. It was on a Sunday market morning. Everything looked so delicious! We bought roasted quails, home made bread, ripe tomatoes, cheeses and had a picnic lunch just outside of the town. I regretted we couldn't spend more time in Beaune. Since that visit I'm dreaming of going back to the area. Oh how I wished I lived closer to France!!
ReplyDeleteBe still my beating heart, kitchen ware heaven.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness!!! The copper pots, the flatware, that champagne bucket, how wonderful. Hope someone can share their visit with you (and you with us).
ReplyDeleteGoodness me - could your posts GET any more desirable! Forget Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins or any other racy romantic novels - my heart does a tripple tailspin every time I click onto your blog posts. That first image has just made my jaw drop - I'm a copper pot addict! x
ReplyDeleteOhhhhh quanta bellezza, non saprei cosa scegliere visto che mi piace tutto !!!!Il tuo blog è bellissimo, purtroppo non so l'inglese e quindi devo accontentarmi di guardare le immagini e capire a grandi linee il senso di quello che scrivi, perciò non sarebbe possibile mettere la traduzione in francese, please please !!!!! Avec amitiè. Piera
ReplyDeleteI think I'd go crazy at that kind of brocante...love beautiful old things, but they have to serve a purpose for me!
ReplyDeleteMy heart started racing just looking at all the beautiful finds.....I would go nuts over there! All that copper, swoon!!!!!!! Love seeing all this through your eyes, one day, one day!
ReplyDeleteBe still my heart. What an opportunity for some very lucky people!
ReplyDeleteOh, that would be wonderful fun (although I have to say that I'd avoid looking at the Hotel Dieu. I know....everyone loves the joint. I happen to think it typifies my mother's phrase "All the ugly that money can buy".....the Trump Towers of the 15th century).
ReplyDeleteThat quite aside (and I doubt the good folks of Beaune care in the least what I think of their icon), the auction sounds wonderful.
A longtime, elderly friend of mine has, for decades, collected (and subsequently been given; presents for her are easy) old china, glassware, and table service from former institutions. She uses them at dinner parties. I'm not sure that she has two of any one pattern. Everything she has was orginally part of a set for, say, "The Great Southern Railroad" (when's the last time you ate off china in a regular railroad dining-car?), "Bridal Veil Falls Hotel", various small women's colleges.....all these places and institutions that either don't exist anymore or (if they do) certainly don't serve meals on china, with glassware embossed with the insitution's crest.
Similarly, I have two very nice (I have no idea how old they are) china tea-mugs, giddily emblazoned with the royal, be-crowned crest of Elizabeth II and the inscription "H.M. Prisons". Underneath that is "Birmingham Prison". I love the notion that, at one point in the 1950's or so, the wardens of Birmingham's (England, obviously...not alabama)grim prison had their tea in white china cups with the Queen's crest prominently displayed. Presumably, that emphasized a sense of purpose and dignified service to the crown.
In any case, times have changed......and thanks for the intriguing posting. I'm going to go to the website and see what they have.
Level Best as Ever,
David Terry
www.davidterryart.com
Love Hotel silver.
ReplyDeleteLove it! I wish I could extend my Paris stay another week and pop down to Beaune. Maybe next year...
ReplyDeleteKitchenware is the big girls Barbie doll. It is seriously addictive.
ReplyDeleteOh, now that would be a very dangerous place to go! Old hotel silver????
ReplyDeleteOh, I would love this event!! All that stoneware, and old silver speaks to my heart. Now all they need is some gorgeous textiles to finish up the loot!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the best picking ever!
ReplyDeleteFun!
Nancy
wildoakdesigns.blogspot.com
Oh, the copper pots make my heart beat a little faster. And the beautiful silverware.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful event-Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeletexo, Lissy Parker
This is MY kind of fun! Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteI will not be in Beaune until early June...but maybe next year. We spend our summers there and there is always something interesting going on...Thank you for keeping France in my thoughts all through the year...
ReplyDeleteThis will be a popular event. Who doesn't love the copper and the other goodies. What a wonderful event.
ReplyDeleteYou are so generous to share this event Sharon, maybe next year I can make it there. I think I would spend a fortune! Then I would have to have a sale myself to make room for the new 'old' stuff!
ReplyDeletebee x
Simply Amazing, wish I could go~Cheers Kim
ReplyDeleteI collect antique game or pate tureens, most made by Pillivuyt (along with a million other things...).
ReplyDeleteI am starting an antique post for Fridays on my site, for those who not always hungry!
xo
Sharon,
ReplyDeleteI love hotel silver and anything with a crest...I'm certain I'm not alone. What fun.
Karen