01London · UK
Notting Hill Market
Pastel houses, serious treasure hunting
Come for the famous street, stay for the tiny objects with very long memories.
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FIELD NOTES / ISSUE 01EST. 2026
A pocket guide for the beautifully curious
EVERY FINDHAS A STORY.
Roam twenty markets across five countries, meet the objects hiding on their tables, then point your camera at a find to uncover its own story.
20 field notes · 5 countries
60 photographs from market days
01ROTARY
TELEPHONEc. 1970s
TELEPHONEc. 1970s
TAP
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found in the wild! ↗
WORLD'S MARKET JOURNEY / ISSUE 01
MARKETS WORTH
LOSING AN AFTERNOON IN.
Twenty short field notes for people who would rather remember a city by its tables, shopfronts and strange little finds.
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- countries
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- markets
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- photographs
EDITOR'S PICKPARIS
Paris · France · 2 min
Saint-Ouen Market
Not a flea market—a whole antique universe
“Saint-Ouen is too big to conquer, which is precisely its charm. Each passage has a personality: museum-level furniture here, records and Americana there, then a cabinet full of objects no sensible person could identify at first glance.”READ THE FIELD NOTE →
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02London · UK
Brick Lane Market
A market with a very good soundtrack
Vinyl, posters, vintage jackets and street art all competing for your attention.
03London · UK
Salad Days Market
The cute market that knows it is cute
Tiny ceramics, illustrated faces and charms made for people who collect personality.
04London · UK
Leadenhall Market
Jewellery hunting under a painted ceiling
Part market, part film set, with old London glamour built into every angle.
05London · UK
Greenwich Market
A soft landing for first-time market people
Antiques, plants, craft and lunch all tucked beneath one handsome roof.
06Paris · France
Saint-Ouen Market
Not a flea market—a whole antique universe
Rooms of furniture, pop culture, strange metal things and one silver spaceship.
07Paris · France
Porte de Vanves Market
Paris, laid out on folding tables
Paintings, perfume bottles and porcelain with none of the grand-antique intimidation.
08Lille · France
Braderie de Lille
When an entire city becomes a flea market
Crowds, comics, old francs and mountains of moules-frites: subtle it is not.
09L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue · France
L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
The antique town that comes with a river
Wicker, ceramics and garden pieces in a Provençal setting almost too pretty to be fair.
10Amsterdam · Netherlands
IJ-Hallen
A warehouse-sized lesson in looking properly
Hundreds of stalls, low prices and enough visual noise to make a treasure hunter very happy.
11Amsterdam · Netherlands
Waterlooplein Market
Vintage clothes with a canal-city backdrop
A central Amsterdam rummage where jackets, prints and little paper histories mingle.
12Amsterdam · Netherlands
Noordermarkt
Flowers, old porcelain and a very good Saturday mood
The kind of neighbourhood market where breakfast quietly becomes a two-hour browse.
13Amsterdam · Netherlands
Albert Cuyp Market
Come hungry, leave carrying ceramics
Poffertjes, fresh juice, flowers and blue-and-white tableware in one long lively street.
14Madrid · Spain
El Rastro
Madrid’s Sunday ritual, best taken slowly
Ceramics, jewellery and crowded side streets that reward anyone willing to wander off-route.
15Barcelona · Spain
Mercat dels Encants
Barcelona’s beautiful organised chaos
A mirrored roof floating above lamps, cameras, house clearances and seven centuries of reuse.
16Sant Cugat · Spain
Mercantic
The market where the oddities have oddities
Antiques, giant festival heads, old motorbikes and a one-eyed object watching it all.
17Brimfield · USA
Brimfield Antique & Flea Market
An antique road trip disguised as a market
Fields of Americana, furniture and collections big enough to require a strategy.
18Pasadena · USA
Rose Bowl Flea Market
California vintage under a very big sky
Clothes, jewellery and design finds circling one of America’s most recognisable stadiums.
19Brooklyn · USA
Brooklyn Flea
New York nostalgia, edited just enough
Matchbooks, records, graphic objects and the Brooklyn Bridge somewhere just beyond the stall.
20Alameda · USA
Alameda Point Antiques Faire
Silverware, sea air and the San Francisco skyline
A former runway filled with real vintage, big furniture and the kind of light that makes everything collectible.
Objects worth a closer look
OBJECT
FILES
Every Bazaar Card begins with one photograph.
Keep the story, even when you leave the object behind.
NO. 01Likely · 1968–1982
Olive Rotary Phone
A familiar voice from Britain’s analogue years.
NO. 02Artist-made · Contemporary
Odd Little Plushie
Soft sculpture with a street-fashion streak.
NO. 03Packaging · 1950s inspired
Pantry Time Capsule
When grocery shelves dressed like comic books.YOUR POCKET-SIZED
MARKET
MAGIC
One curious object at a time.- 01
SPOT IT
See something strange, lovely or completely unknown.
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SCAN IT
Frame the object and add any clues from labels or the seller.
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KEEP THE STORY
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