Bonjour! Oh my! I MUST share this beautiful brocante shop with you. It's in the north of Burgundy in the medieval town of Avallon. Elisabeth sells the most carefully sourced and beautiful terre de fer (ironstone) items. This place truly is a brocante lover's heaven. I highly recommend you put this brocante shop on your list when traveling to Burgundy and when looking for true antiques and brocante treasures, gems and finds.
A visit to Elisabeth's brocante shop in Avalon, Burgundy, showcasing an extensive collection of Terre de Fer dishware. The video explores the beauty of antique ceramics, the art of \"mix and match\" table settings, and the historical stories embedded in each piece, alongside a selection of vintage hand-crafted linens.
If you've been following me and my brocante videos, you know how much I love Terre de Fer
dishware. And if, like me, you are always looking for the most beautiful new pieces for your
collection, you will absolutely love this brocante shop that I've recently discovered.
This is Terre de Fer Heaven. In the medieval town of Avalon in the north of Burgundy,
Elisabeth is showing me around in her shop filled with the most beautiful, carefully sourced
treasures, showing some of the beautiful pieces that she currently has. And you will probably
understand that I just felt like a child in a candy store. We speak French in this video,
but you can turn on the subtitles for your language in the YouTube settings.
This is really a timeless piece that will be able to come in a mix and match. Really,
if you want to make mismatched tables, this is really a model that you will be able to mix with
all the colors, the shapes, the decor. Really, these are very beautiful pieces.
These are pieces that I particularly like. But you have the dishes, the plates. So,
we're going to have hollow plates. I have the oval dish left. Here you will have the salad bowl on foot,
which is also a very beautiful piece of form. So, we find the decor on its entire circumference
and also on its foot. You will also have hollow, round dishes. And you see that I mix here
with other decor, and they go very, very well together. You can very well associate the
Marie-Louise model, Saint Amant et Amage, which is a very beautiful model too. Look.
There, in mix and match, you really have something fabulous. I think the whole thing is sublime.
That's it. Really, you can have a lot of fun. Here we find the Ravie Annemone,
the same, look. And the same, if you want to make a wall with different shapes,
different colors, different decor, we will very well be able to do a little like what we
did here. And you can work on a nice wall of pieces of form with different models,
you see. So, we can really come and have a lot of fun. I also have a piece here for
dessert. There are a few left. So there, to also answer your question earlier,
I still have a few flat plates. We can really have fun working with mix and match.
I'm going to add Marie-Louise. Look, there we can make a pretty little wall or a beautiful table.
It's beautiful, isn't it? It's beautiful. So, you can imagine afterwards, if you really want to make
a table of mix and match on a nice linen veil, white in color. With pretty green. Exactly,
yes, exactly. So, here too, we will find the pieces of form. So, we find Marie-Louise,
which is the foot of the shower, plate for dessert, plate mounted. Everyone will call it
as they wish, but here too, we find the decor on the foot and on the perimeter.
So, there, very beautiful piece. You will have the compotier, so there we have a foot that is higher,
from Gian. So, the tulip model, with a great patina. He just took it out, did you see? Yes,
exactly. Yes, exactly. This model of tulip. But in colors, indeed,
which were not worked on at the time. But yes, it is really a timeless model from Gian.
Sure value. And these are pieces that we also like. Here, we will find
Boulanger hypolyte. So, there too, very beautiful patina. We have a small crack in the stitches,
which is just sublime. In fact, these are pieces that make us travel. It's really,
it's stories to themselves. A piece is a story. Whether it is made of this decor,
of its decor, or whether it is made of the passive that it has. So, we transmit these pieces there.
Here, we will have a series of plates with different decorations. As you can see,
earlier I was telling you about the story. And that's exactly it. Through these plates,
we also travel. So, you see the bird here, the flight will be different from this one.
The flowers, on the other hand, you see, they are the same. On the other hand, here we will find
a little butterfly that we don't have here. There you go. And from one model to the other,
we travel. It's a whole story that we're going to tell. And it's also a sharing,
because in the end, we end up at the table with our guests. And everyone might want to know a
little more about it. So, here we are really on a plate. So, iron plate, of course. Ceramic depots.
Here, you see the stamp here. And at the time, in fact, the ceramic depot was the person who
resold the pieces. At the time, we stamped where we found the pieces. So, here you see the address,
Louis-Etienne Marcel, in Paris. So here, Marlos, this is also a piece that I particularly like,
that I wanted to show you. Here, we will have this piece of form that we call a vegetable pot.
Others might call it a soup pot, a small soup pot. We find the model, look at that,
with its patina, its crackling, which is incredible. So, we find here the Longchamp model,
from Longchamp, the Lila model. Look, you see, we're going to find the stamp.
And look at these cracks, look at the fineness of this decor. And the color, which is just incredible.
And here, this little vegetable pot on foot, with its little lid, which is in a great state.
And here, we are really on pieces that are so poetic, they make me vibrate, these pieces.
You can see it. Look, look at this soup pot. There too, there is experience, it is really,
we find the decor of Guirlande, like that, with its really rounded shapes. There too,
there is a very poetic aspect. So, we will use them for soups, salads,
why not even in the center of the table, with a bouquet of flowers, it can be very beautiful.
Exactly, exactly. And there, you can really make a nice center of the table.
Here, these are really pieces that are sublime. And by the way, for the little story,
I'm going to show you, Marlos, the Lila model from Longchamp. You will follow me,
we will go on this side. And look, we will find here, in the cabinet cabinet,
some pieces of the Longchamp model. And look, it's exactly the same model,
except that there, as you can see, we are on a version that is polychrome,
but we are still on the Lila Longchamp model. So, we find the same decor,
but when we look at the vegetable garden, look at the decor, you see, we find the little flowers
of Lila, but here we are really on pieces that are quite different. And is this a more recent one,
because they added colors? So, not necessarily, it is true that the polychrome models
came later. We still stay on a dish from the 19th century.
We are still on a circle, which is original, of course, but we don't have this central bar,
but we have it on the other. It is a model that is a little rarer, this one. But after,
you must not hesitate to match the sizes, the models. It is very good to have large measurements
that will be more or less patinated. That's what's pretty, just like we do with the tables,
you also do it with all the pieces. But large measurements, this is what allowed,
at the time, there were no scales, you see, they weighed, in fact, it allowed them to weigh
the cereals. Look at the detail, the work, and all that was done by hand. And there,
as you can see, in fact, and that's why there is no uniformity in the color,
is that, in fact, at the time, she dyed the fabrics with tea. It was dyed with tea.
And that's why, you see, we really have color variations, we can have a
little different patina. And there, here you have all this crochet work done by hand, of course,
the cross stitch as well. There we are on a floral decor. After that, he will also want to use it
as a curtain. You can very well use it as a curtain. Yes, yes, yes. And you see, look,
this is what I did behind. There is a sheet, I put it on as a curtain. So, in fact, there is
a thousand ways to reinterpret each of these pieces. But here it is. It's an angel. Yes,
absolutely. There are little angels too, which are also present on this model.
The face, the eyes, the nose. It's beautiful. So here, look. There, initially, it's a sheet,
a sheet and a person. Okay. But you can perfectly use it as a curtain. And look
at the side. It's really very volatile. It's super subtle. We have a sheet that is very,
very flexible. And at the same time, precisely by the heaviness of this sheet,
there is a fall that is incredible. And there, you use it as a curtain. And there, what is the same,
beautiful, is this work of crochet, of piecing that we have, in fact, on the bottom.
We will also find the little angels, some little animals, butterflies. There is this
very champêtre, the squirrels. Exactly, the squirrels. But here we are also on a very beautiful
piece. Same. Here, if you want to take it. Here, you see the little characters. Oh, I love it.
It's beautiful, isn't it? Here we are really on a very beautiful piece too. Look at this model.
There too, we will find a whole effect of lace. Ah, I love that. There you go. And there,
you use it as a curtain, indeed. So there too, it can be on a point table,
it can be on a very large country table, a farm table, on a raw wood. You see,
even if you don't put anything underneath, on a raw wood, you will come to work in contrast.
Look. Yes, yes, yes, but I love that. Ah yes, look, in contrast to a raw wood.
Look how pretty it is. Ah, it's very, very beautiful. It's pretty, isn't it?
And it goes well with the land of iron, but also with everything that is ...
Look, with the baked earth. Yes. Very well, she brought a very brutalist baked earth.
You see, a piece that is really very, very raw, which is just going to break the decor a bit.
That's very nice. But indeed, after that, to make it travel with the land of iron,
I could have stayed in this shop forever, as you can probably imagine.
It's always so wonderful to meet a fellow lover of all these beautiful pieces.
If you've seen anything that you like or are looking for similar items,
Elisabeth has an online shop and she ships worldwide. I've left a link in the description
box. Thank you so much for watching and I'll be back with a new video next week.