When it comes to shopping, Ms. van Herpen likes the flea market at Porte de Clignancourt.
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If your eyes are bigger than your wallet, then you might be interested in the flea market held on Saturdays in Israels Plads , where high-street stores are said to unload the goodies they can't sell in their shops.
The inside is almost entirely decorated with objects that Mr. Starck picked out from the flea-market over the course of two years.
That had been the whole idea, the lofty rationale behind the snow-globe collection and the flea-market eyewear.
Ms. Perillo began to build her collection of old-time cookbooks in 2007, when she was vacationing on Cape Cod and stumbled across the Betty Furness volume at the Wellfleet Flea Market.
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Once a trader in the seafront flea-market, his souvenir shack was destroyed, and with it his livelihood.
In the dining room I am working on, I plan to hang a single fantastic picture on one wall and smother the opposite wall with pictures a mix of Hugo Guinness paintings, the odd flea-market oil painting, a vintage poster and vintage sandpaper pictures I found in Paula Rubenstein's Manhattan shop.
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There are shops selling jade and incense, and when the afternoon arrives, flea-market vendors spread their wares on the ground.
The world's largest online flea market thought that it could revolutionize the traditional art auction business by creating a vast new class of customers who would bid on high-ticket items over the Internet.
Weekends also see the city's biggest flea market take over Strasse des 17 Juni, just west of the Tiergarten park.
On Sunday afternoons at Plaza Dorrego in the San Telmo Antiques flea market, a local legend and resident, El Indio, does a demonstration of tango accompanied by a bit of history (in Spanish).
This is like comparing a roadside flea market to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Anyone who has visited a weekend flea market has noticed the old coin and currency collector displays filled with past experiments in national fiat money.
The 58-year-old flea market merchant, who carried bags of merchandise in her arms as she waited in line to vote before heading to work Sunday morning, said money was tight, and the economy was a key issue for her in this year's election.
Enter through the bamboo courtyard and step into a room piled with Moroccan rugs, old records and other flea-market finds and grab a drink around the ping-pong table.
And back in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Flea, a year-round, weekend-only market presenting a curated mix of indie designers, regional food producers and vintage collectors, has moved indoors for winter, sprawling over three floors of a former bank in Fort Greene.
He got in touch with Tenzin and spent the next six months looking for design inspiration in everything from flea-market cast-offs to old brickwork and Raoul Dufy paintings.
In Milton Keynes, on the edge of the enormous modernist mall full of bright chain stores, there is a flea market with stalls selling Afro-Caribbean and Asian foods.
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According to surveys DOJ conducted of state prison inmates during 2004 (the most recent year of data available), only two percent who owned a gun at the time of their offense bought it at either a gun show or flea market.
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In all his years rooting through flea-market bins, he had grown to feel a particular curiosity about the hand-knit dolls and secondhand sock monkeys he always found on offer.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the first prototype emerged from a "beat-up old typing table" that she found in a flea market.
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