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In 2008, Isle with the Treasury of Antiquities and Secondhand trade indeed will deploy always more charm and of authenticity to continue to affirm itself like one of the European platforms most prestigious after London and Paris. More than 500 professionals (exhibitors and shops), of the thousands of visitors, the objects of collections and the pieces of furniture of decorations among the most beautiful parts of planet "Antiquity", the city has not haggled over the means to feed the market sedentary commercial in Antiquities Secondhand trade, a sector in progression of 128 % for these ten last years. All started in 1966, date from which Albert Gassier and Rene Légier write the first lines of the Golden Legend. Today, shops and villages of antique dealer form a single eldorado in its kind. Espace Béchard, les Boutiques de l’Orée, l’Ile aux Brocante, la Cour, Dongier Antiquités, Rive de Sorgues, Village des Antiquaires de la gare, Quai de La gare, Around the train station, the Galerie des Trouvailles... These signs are struck, for a long time, of the seal of highest notoriety.
Between tradition and modernity
Within this ideal framework, along the Sorgue river, cradle of thousand-year-old dreams, into full cur with mythical Provence, each one will be able to be devoted to its preferred leisure. Men and women, French and foreigners, impassioned same diverted objects, from all the times, from all the styles, will be able to saunter without counting and to satisfy their insatiable desire of the thousand and one secrecies of innovations hidden with deepest of the past. Constantly renewed new old parts, the International Fair of Isle-on-the-Sorgue still looked after its quality control mark between tradition and modernity.
A guarantee of quality
Initiated in 2003 by the City, a Charter of Quality, controlled on the spot by certified experts, member of the Company of French Experts in Antiquities, give to the amateurs objects and pieces of furniture of decoration all the insurances to acquire authentic goods. Signed by each exhibitor at the time of his inscription, this Charter protects the chineurs against the copies, the reproductions and the republications of old. A protection useful for any purchaser of antiquities and secondhand trades animated of a permanent euphoria for the kingdom of the "inanimate objects" with strong added value.
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Foire Internationale Antiquités & Brocante de L'Isle sur la Sorgue
6-9 April (Easter long week-end)
See Antiques shop list
About Charte de Qualité
Download Antiques Guide (2 Mb - PDF)
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