After scouring the oceans around the world, Philippe Schuermans stopped to Paul Bert Serpette 12 years ago. A bit like a puzzle, this antique dealer develops sets inspired by his life path, objects of emotion, hunted with his heart, with theatrical dimensions. Dive into this globetrotter's world, passionate and inspiring.
What is your background ?
I've always loved collecting. When I was a child, I liked to build my little cabinet of curiosity by picking pieces of earthenware, odd-shaped pebbles, insects, little skeletons of mice. I had tinkered a cariole that I hung behind my bike to make the bulky, and when I had collected enough items, I sold them on the flea markets of the villages.
I started the trade as an antique dealer quite late. I wanted to practice in the field of art or antiques for a very long time and after having many other lives, I finally started. I always said that life was short and we had to try to achieve a maximum of things. I was a professional skipper, I traveled the oceans. I thus started at the flea by presenting "trophies" collected around the globe during these years. It was an atmosphere of curiosity cabinet with whale vertebrae, narwhal teeth, skeletons of birds and dolphins, harpoons found on the abandoned bases of whalers in Antarctica ... It's been 12 years since I made this job full time and I have evolved.
