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Jean-Cyrille Boutmy buys Paul Bert Serpette, the biggest market of Saint-Ouen
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Jean-Cyrille Boutmy, the parisian entrepreneur and founder of the independant media group Studyrama, has bought the Paul Bert and Serpette antiques markets. The 47 years old thus takes on the ownership of the largest and busiest sections of the Puces de Saint-Ouen antiques and flea market.
Jean-Cyrille Boutmy - passionate about Paul Bert Serpette.
Paris-based entrepreneur Jean-Cyrille Boutmy is the owner and CEO of independant media group Studyrama (print media, websites, publishing and education and career fairs), which he founded in 1989 at the age of just 22. Studyrama specializes in offering careers guidance and support services relating to exams and competitive entrance exams.
Jean-Cyrille Boutmy is a real fan of antiques who has been a regular visitor to the Paul Bert and Serpette markets for many years. Being a loyal customer, he knows ever nook and cranny of this wolrd-famous market. He loves to browse through the stalls and shops of the 350 dealers present here, tracking down rare objects and antiques.
Jean-Cyrille Boutmy intends to maintain and build upon the international stranding enjoyed by by Paul Bert Serpette, bolstering its status as the world's largest antiques market.
His focus is firmly fixed on three priorities:
- Attracting the best Antiques dealers to Paul Bert Serpette
- Redoubling efforts to boost measures relating to both the authentification and improving the overall quality of the rare objects on sale at Paul Bert Serpette
- Providing this unmissable market with an online presence worthy of its status
In the last two years, over 50 new dealers have opened a stall at Paul Bert Serpette, the largest of all the markets in the Puces de Saint-Ouen.
Operating a stall at Paul Bert Serpette is an absolute must for any antiques dealer. More than 50 professionals have opened a stall here over the last 2 years/ For this new generation of stall-owners, Paul Bert Serpette signifies a new, outward-looking approach, a real dynamism and a reputation amongst the art world that is second to none.
With some 350 professional dealers on a 12,000 m2 site, Paul Bert Serpette is the largest and the busiest of the 14 markets that comprise the Puces de Saint-Ouen.
Its 350 stands have something new each week, from the very best of furniture from the 18th to the 20th century, suited to even the most niche tastes, to jewellery, paintings, mirrors, glassware, not to mention tableware, archeological artefacts, tribal arts and taxidermy. Paul Bert Serpette is the only permanent marketplace in the world to have such an eclectic range of rare objects and artworks on offer.
Paul Bert Serpette is a byword the world over for its avant-garde spirit, the quality of the art and antiques on sale and the expertise of its stall-holders. As such, it attracts an international clientele composed both of professionals and knowledgeable amateurs. They come in search of something that stands out from the crowd, to hunt out the latest trends and to breathe in the intoxicating scent of discoveries just awaiting to be made that so characterizes this market.