Second hand: Leboncoin curiosity cabinet by Elsa Muse and Olivia da Costa

Buying a car, finding a job, acquiring a property, emptying your cupboards, booking a hotel room ... Leboncoin is a bit of a whole life.It is also and above all a formidable playground for hunting retro pieces that we cherish for their rarity and their little extra soul.Who has not already surfed on the site for hours in the hope of setting his sights on a 50’s lamp or a vintage perfecto?And what satisfaction when we finally manage to smell the right deal!With the Leboncoin curiosity cabinet, Elsa Muse and Olivia Da Costa understood this well and it is through a selection of objects identified on the Star site for classified ads that the two outstanding chinuses share their happy favorites.No need to look for them have done it for us!

Disclaims that smell the times

Photographer, editor of her own Please magazine!And founder of a vintage jewelry brand, Olivia Da Costa tells us that she was thrown into the skin of Diana Vreeland, who mixed Mexican boots and XXL jewelry, to find the rare pearls of her selection for Leboncoin.Digital native, Elsa Muse directs her own creation studio where she reveals her talent for the stop motion.For her selection, she chose pieces she wanted to offer herself, objects with a regressive look by their primary shapes or colors.

Their common points?A limitless creative vision, a passion for collector pieces and a gift to transform the forgotten treasures of the past into cool pieces of the moment."When I was younger I loved traveling the aisles of the chips of Clignancourt or Saint-Ouen.Now I like to find the object online online that no one will have "admits Olivia Da Costa.

Seconde main : Le Cabinet de Curiosité leboncoin par Elsa Muse et Olivia da Costa

According to her, to be a good snack, it is necessary "to have a sense of imagination, to close your eyes and to project yourself with the garment, the piece of contextualized decoration, at home, in your dressing room, in your living room."For Elsa Muse, it is especially necessary" to devote time every day to watch, not to wait to make a crush purchase (tomorrow he will no longer be there), develop a culture of fashion and design to know how to recognize a beautifulroom.»»

Leboncoin beautiful things

In this sharp selection, around twenty small nuggets in the dapper colors rub shoulders with style and dialogue between the eras.We can find, among other things, the cult chair "Little Tulip" designed by Pierre Paulin in 1960 and edited by Artifort, an authentic lithography of Jean Cocteau numbered and signed, a sublime pair of leather santiags, an instax scratched Jean-Charles deCastelbajac, superb Babes Carel in terribly 60's red leather, a spice mill imagined by the Grand Ettore Sottsass and edited by Alessi, a pair of vintage earrings straight out of the 80s, a set of 4 Multicolor Carafes fromPols Potten, or the famous TGV table lamp imagined by Ionna Vautrin for the French editor Mustache.

Since November 22, the parts have been on sale on Leboncoin via a dedicated shop "The Leboncoin curiosity firm".All of the sales will be donated to the association "A nothing that's all".Good eco-responsible gift ideas that just ask to find a new roof.Long live vintage!

Leboncoin, a French success story

The second -hand market has never been so popular and Leboncoin has never been so well.Today, more than one in two French people go to the platform daily.Consumption habits are evolving and the French aspire to a more responsible and more economical lifestyle.“From the first confinement, our users quickly started to rethink their interior.From the end of the first confinement, the growth of the site was spectacular, both on visits and advertising of announcements.Since then we are still on figures hitherto unpublished, with days at 20 million visits and a number of announcements from 28 million, our 2018 ceiling to 2020, to 50 million today ”tells us Anne Quemin,Director of the Leboncoin brand and communication.

On the occasion of its 15th anniversary last April, the site even offered Catherine Deneuve in a delusional advertisement where the actress revealed with second degree her love for collecting hens ...

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