Emmanuel Redon, a Key Figure of the French Flea Market

When he was 16, his mother Jacqueline Teboul, an antiques dealer specialising in Empire silverware at Village Suisse, wanted to bring him into the profession. But he refused. At the time, he preferred cinema and photography, and made a short film on the Viennese artist Egon Schiele. That was twenty years ago. Subsequently, he became interested in French silver, but in the sphere of formal decorative tableware. At the Marché Biron in the Saint-Ouen flea market, he has shared an 80 m² shop with his mother since 1999, where they welcome an international clientele in a rapidly changing sector. We talk to this incorrigible optimist. What role do you play with your customers? I try to give them advice and guide them in their purchases, explaining which piece to start with, and helping them to compose their tables – as I did two years ago with a Russian oligarch, whom I provided with cases of silverware…