marche aux puces

Then she began gussying up the interior of the store with antiques, jewelry and housewares, as well as the objects and textiles she found on her travels to the Marché aux Puces in Paris and Portobello Road in London.

Growing up, Bitton spent Sundays at the Marché aux Puces Saint-Ouen de Clignancourt with his father, Raymond, an avid art collector who would spend all day long at the legendary flea market looking for treasures.

The 19th-century French photographer Édouard Baldus’s 1856 portrait of a bourgeois garden outing — an image that in some ways anticipated Impressionism — served as the initial spark when Mr. Apraxine spotted it at a vintage photo shop in the Marché aux Puces flea market in Paris in 1977.

For example, the Horlogerie team often works with A.P.H., or Atelier Parisien d’Horlogerie, a business in the 9th Arrondissement, and L’Atelier du Temps, at the Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen — both watch repair businesses staffed with Diderot graduates.

Heather Clawson, founder of the lifestyle blog Habitually Chic, recently spent a month in Paris, where she visited the Marché aux Puces de Vanves every week.