Paul Bert Serpette

Famous flee market. A joy for old furniture lovers. Real vintage clothing gems. Bring cash.

Museum quality art, sculpture, decor, furniture, antiques, antiquities, and more with friendly, kind of eccentric shop keepers. But comes with a high price, thousands and thousands of dollars for these pieces.

One of my most favorites places in Paris. Loots of antique and vintage staff, amazing chilled atmosphere. A must!!

Amazing choice of Art Deco and pop deco and furniture

Amazing place to find all sorts of antique and vintage objects, furniture, jewellery and even clothes.

My favourite market in les puces. Hands down.

Always fun to go too the flea market

Outstanding ‘flea’ market. Expect very high end furniture and home furnishings which sprawl along multiple alleys.

Famous flee market. A joy for old furniture lovers. Real vintage clothing gems. Bring cash.

Museum quality art, sculpture, decor, furniture, antiques, antiquities, and more with friendly, kind of eccentric shop keepers. But comes with a high price, thousands and thousands of dollars for these pieces.

One of my most favorites places in Paris. Loots of antique and vintage staff, amazing chilled atmosphere. A must!!

Amazing choice of Art Deco and pop deco and furniture

Amazing place to find all sorts of antique and vintage objects, furniture, jewellery and even clothes.

My favourite market in les puces. Hands down.

Always fun to go too the flea market

Outstanding ‘flea’ market. Expect very high end furniture and home furnishings which sprawl along multiple alleys.

Super interesting antique shopping. Located just at the north edge of Paris in Saint-Ouen, this area is one of many market areas. This was probably the nicest of all- large covered areas, clean, smooth walkways, clean restrooms and a couple of cafes. Most stores here are selling high end antique furniture. Beautiful pieces, many look new. Other shops carried vintage high fashion that would make a girl cry. Then there were the shops that sold the small antique household items. On the weekend around the backside, locals set up small tables and create their own flea market area. Be warned, prices inside and still seem very high. But the furnishings were absolutely gorgeous. Worth spending a couple of hours to experience a different part of Paris.

Known as the biggest and best flea market in the entire world. I am not surprised. The place is huge, as it seems to swerve in and out for miles & miles and nooks and crannies. The wide variety of tempting treasures from true antiques to the rarest of finds to vintage items and lots of old French style. My only issue is if you're not comfortable and able to converse in the French language, you're going to have some difficulties shopping here. Prices are high, yet you're supposed to bargain. I personally don't know how to communicate much in a language I don't know, so I spent most of my time as a touring lookie lou. I suppose that's fine, but I would have liked to consider purchasing some things, but couldn't, except for at the booths where English was spoken.

I had imagined that all the beautiful objects in the world are already in someone's possession sitting on their respective credenzas. Such was my expectation upon going to Paul Bert. This being a flea market, I was expecting janky stuff that I'm so used to seeing in the American counterparts (if any comes comparably close). I was in for a surprise to see so many lovely things that I wished I had room for - mussell shell lamps, a blue bear figurine to match an Art Deco greyhound I have sitting on my baby grand, a manta ray-looking black onyx figurine, a gargantuan Russian Constructivist-styled sculpture, a surf board with recessed LED lights, an oil painting a la Stuart Davis. Many items defy easy description that really, the best way to experience the labor and craftsmanship within the veins of these second-hand pieces is by personally perusing through this marche aux puces.