The Collectors, A couple in bakelite
They are two, like a pair of cuffs or a pair of earrings, of course in Bakelite. Cement of their couple, the Bakelite, they discovered it together, tamed it together and fell in love both. It is a common love that unites Jacques and Emile for almost thirty years. The first, all in humor and jewelry, lets speak the second whose broad smile is raised by a soft accent that smells the south. Among the warm colors of the bracelets , Necklaces and brooches that make up their stand at Serpette, we let ourselves be seduced and amazed to the point of forgetting the march at the exit of their stand and to brutally collide with a reality so less charming than in their company
LA BELLE ÉPOQUE DU PALACE A night of darkness , artificial lights, extravagant outfits and improbable accessories, the Palace in the 70s and 80s is a mythology. It is here, on the disco of a discotheque where Tout-Paris gave an appointment each evening that a Marseillais decorator met a collector passionate about antiquities. First look, first exchanges, first collaboration: very quickly, Jacques leaves the restoration to associate with Emile who then made his classes at Serpette in furniture 1930s. They settle in Normandy where they open an antique shop but the gap is too big with Parisian madness and the sun is lacking ... Soon, we flee to Marseille and we travel the salons of the South. Old advertisements and objects of Decoration are their business when the Bakelite arrives, which nibbles little by little their stand until the covering
THE CHIC OF BAKELITE "Bakelite has imposed itself on us without any account, astonished the couple". The love at first sight and its mysteries ... Jewelry boxes, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, earrings. But also "minaudières", bookends, lamps, radiators and even saladier, one finds everything in bakelite! This material, often confused with resin, hand carved, has inflamed the decoration from the 1920s to the 1950s. Colored, chic, it lends itself to creations of unparalleled elegance and refinement. A must While Joséphine Baker agitates them, Chanel, Dior, Poiret or Schiaparelli in parenting their models. In the worlds, one does not leave without its adornment of bakelite and especially without its sophisticated "minaudière", they enclose in their pompon tube of lipstick, Cigarette smoke or a flask of perfume ... An ingenuity that has seduced collectors. Just like the fantasy and humor of these creations of the Roaring Twenties where one does not hesitate to wear a character around the neck, balloons on. The reverse of his jacket or adorn his neckline of dominoes! THE BEST FRIENDS OF WOMEN "I only buy here! Margaret, a faithful customer and long-time friend who followed them everywhere until they settled in Serpette four years ago, praises their demands, their passion and their extravagance. Jacques and Emile are accomplices, allies of these Women of taste who dare originality and assume a certain grain of madness. Whether French, American or Australian, they all have in common an open mind and a love of the game. Like them, they do not take themselves seriously. And this is why these surprising jewels, vestiges of a free, frivolous and carefree time, go so well to the complexion "Your little breasts of bakelite who are agitated ..." humbly irreverently Gainsbourg on the album Melody Nelson ...
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