Magic Brocante
The Magic Brocante shop was born from the passion of Sophie and Théophile for beautiful objects with many past lives. In the barns and the many nooks adjoining the Alsatian farmhouse of 1848 in which they moved in with their children; religious icons, earthenware and chinoiserie are crowded against each other in skilfully organized mounds...
Because by choosing to leave the city for a rural village in the heart of the Regional Natural Park of the Northern Vosges, they realized their dream: to live a life in accordance with their passion for worthless treasures, for forgotten wonders; one of those where the small, strange and colorful things are the most important.
Here, you will find all the objects we unearth, the superb cooking recipes that Théophile treats us to every day, and our advice for spending a dream stay in our future Gîte de la Forge!
Chosen with care, prepared with love
Magic Brocante objects have a story! They have already lived several lives before arriving in your hands... It is this particularity that we love. Their small faults are for us great qualities.
The Cottage of the Forge
After being frustrated when looking for our vacation spots, whose renovation was stifling the charm and poetry, we had the idea of ​​creating our own gîte in an old abandoned forge attached to our house.
The Gîte de la Forge will open in the summer of 2025 and will allow us to make the daily life that is so dear to us accessible to all our visitors: children can walk alone, ride their bikes, see the trees bloom and slide in winter. ... In summer there are cherries, in autumn apples and chestnuts, and all year round the eggs of our superb fleet of hens. It's silly, it's simple, but it's a real joy!
This project also allows us to contribute to safeguarding the incredible local Alsatian heritage that surrounds us: we want to preserve as much as possible the various pieces, paintings, and objects currently present in the forge. Follow its renovation through our blog and on our social networks!