Nice. Antique Stores

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First it is worth mentioning about the flea market, passing on Mondays at the market square Marche aux Fleurs. Everything here is exactly the same as on hundreds of similar rynochkov around the world: a table with various trinkets, fake Tibetan Buddhas are interspersed with these Mediterranean shells and wonderful European bronze of the twentieth century, executed in the Art Nouveau or Art Deco.

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Prices varied: for Abramoviches, and Ivanov - from a few thousand euros on the "exclusive" trays and up to a few euros on conventional trays.
At such antique rynochkah excitement peculiar to each antiquary, injects extra adrenaline in the blood. For (with certain knowledge, of course) to find here a unique object is much simpler than in expensive respected galleries. No wonder one of the farewell among Western dealer is joking: «Happy hunting!» ( «Good hunting!") At that time, hunting for me was good - managed to buy (do not ask for much), a remarkable figure of Chinese lacquer lords, which our experts Museum of East confidently dated the XVII century.
In addition to the antique market NICE can attract their quarter antiquarians. On several streets in the port area there are more than four dozen stores where prying eyes researcher can find a lot of interesting things. But the problem is simply to get inside the store, as well as Mediterranean climate dictates the rules of the game - most dealers are working only a couple of hours in the morning and two hours in the evening, other times carelessly leaving a note on the door with a telephone number - you, you and call. Must. Called. We are trying to reach. The result is not always the case.

Of course, a visit Côte d'Azur without a walk in the Monaco would be not only incomplete, but, to put it mildly, absurd. Vanity Fair - Vanity Fair - the name of this place invented long ago, and everyone who was in the Monte Carlo method agree with this definition. Here you can see the traffic jam, consisting entirely of Ferrari, Maybach, and Bentley, but also found in the queue for croissants good-looking old woman in Chinese slippers and a basket in his hands, but the finger of her glittering stone, which cost more than the annual budget of a small African state. Typical day. Plain old woman. Unusual city itself.

Antique life is also extremely diverse: from luxury galleries offering the masterpieces of world art, the Impressionists and the avant-garde jewelry and luxury furniture worth hundreds of thousands of euros, to small shops, specialty which can be defined in everyday sentence: "What is found, then sell it." However, if we compare the picture of Nice and Monte Carlo, a clear difference in the classroom. If in Nice can be found worthy things at reasonable prices, the cost of Monaco serious things changed radically. Galleries, specializing in Oriental art, only one, things are quite adequate to the world antiques market, but nothing extraordinary.
Summing up the impressions of the antique shops of Nice and the MC, I note that, while away from the main paths of movement of the majority of Russian dealers, they certainly are of some interest, because the Cote d'Azur, has never been ravaged world wars and revolutions, is the repository of a large number of interesting works of art.
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