WISH I WAS HERE!
1 L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
Lizzie Gordon, The Oscar Collective
theoscarcollective.co.uk , @theoscarcollective
I first went to the Provençal town of L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue as a dealer four years ago, although I’d been before while on holiday in the south of France. It’s a magical place. The town itself is lovely – there’s a canal that snakes through the centre with lots of beautiful water wheels and it’s really charming – plus, it’s a real hub for antiques. It’s almost entirely made up of antiques shops and markets. You can combine it with Avignon, which is 40 minutes up the road and has a huge fair several times a year with international sellers from all over the world.
Because L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue is a town that’s dedicated to antiques, a lot of the prices in the shops are retail prices. As a dealer, to get the best trade prices, you need to look behind the shops and in the streets at weekends when the whole town comes to a
