Gabriel Bousquet, Freedom of Antiquities

The least that can be said is that it does not go unnoticed. Himself recognizes it. You see it from afar, pace the paths with a nonchalant step, with his teenager draw Screwed cap on the head. The story of combing his shaggy hair, a cigarette with a beak and Ray Ban on the nose, Gabriel Bousquet is one of those figures that are imposing and do not forget his smile corner, his face chiselled by time and that look falsely Disorganized, everything indicates that behind the glasses, things happened before his arrival to Paul Bert Serpette just two years ago.

THE GRAND AIR RATHER THAN THE BAR Gabriel Bousquet is not of the "seraglio" as he says. The Fleas and him is a story of chance, of taste ... and friends. Good student, law student at the university in Assas, Freelance at his hours for the Union of Reims, he is destined to the bar after the army of course "In a family of officers, unthinkable to be reformed!". Finally, he embarks on computer science and works a few years for a large group. Tired of a stupid routine, of a restrictive confinement and a heavy hierarchy, he ends up packing his bags while a friend, calls for an incongruous project. And now this lawyer a little geek finds himself managing a scrap yard, a field he knows nothing about the art of saving the objects. On this site, Gabriel will have flair. Him who has always appreciated the decoration is surrounded by metal and industrial objects put to the garbage. He only has to lean, they are there, doomed to disappear. He decides to keep them, save them somehow by storing them in a hangar. It is then in the early 2000s. The fashion of industrial furniture landed and the finds of Gabriel find very quickly, especially at the Flea. This is his first professional contact with the China that he was previously frequented as a freak. Very soon, he gets caught up in the game and contracts the virus of the quest, this "thrill" which makes addicted

A self- taught eternal , Gabriel learns about the scrap yard first and then in a gallery of design then. When in May 2013 his friend Didier, former colleague in computer science, proposes him to join a stand " Inevitably "to Paul Bert, he jumps on the occasion. The great air, the objects, the neighbors, his choice is quickly done. Two years ago. Two years spent in the alley 4, surrounded by antiques dealers who guide him, advise him, sometimes warns him. It is with them that he advances, Gabriel, and it is that he walked the way with more industrial furniture in his stand. Today, it is the classic for Gabriel is the "potential of the object". The memory of the proximity of his father, amateur cabinetmaker, with the furniture. Always to put up a chest of drawers, to sand a table in his beautiful studio. This memory has marked him and it is always difficult to escape from what was known. At the risk of confusing his wife and his daughters who every morning see or disappear furniture in their house in Compiègne, branch of his stand of which he is not ready to lower the curtain

Gabriel Bousquet, stand 154, alley 4, Paul Bert

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Gabriel Bousquet, Freedom of Antiquities