Presentation
50 antique dealers and experts present their exceptional objects. The antique dealers and experts Geôle make this historic heart of the art market in Versailles.Born there a quarter century, the area of the Jail Antiques has established itself as the largest antiques center in western Paris. In a historic place, near the palace, the Notre-Dame market and Lambinet Museum is an ideal walk for all amateurs and professionals of antiquity.
The quality and variety of items they have:
Furniture • Books and prints Pictures and drawings old Goldsmithing • Jewelry • Paintings • Far East decoration, textiles and vintage watches and lighting • Primitive Arts Weapons and historical memories • Folk Art • Ceramics • Objects window and curiosities • Sculpture, objects of art • Contemporary Art, The antique dealers and experts Geôle make this historic heart of the art market at Versailles. The growing interest by visitors are in this together, because the grouping of the Jail Antiques and the Bailiwick, a market of international standing. Four spaces connected by streets that are centuries old you can find the rare item.
The Passage is located in the former inmates of the Parkway Gaol, royal prison built in 1724. Samson, who executed Louis XVI, the executioner held it there until 1788.
During the Revolution you could come across the Comtesse du Barry was the favorite of Louis XV. Here also there took place the last massacres of the Revolution: 9 and 10 September 1792, seventy prisoners, including the Duke of Brissac there were executed. In the Square, the antique shops around the old wine market, built by Letters Patent of 1677. Restaurant Le Patio Antiques is located at the center of the square. In the Village of antiquated houses coiffent other shops. A staircase will lead you to the picturesque streets of Pouvoierie on the market place Notre Dame. The Bailiwick, this beautiful building built by eighteenth Tavenot, student of Mansart, houses antique furniture and objects that are art in a charming setting. |