It's the regional innovations and variations that keep design relevant our hyper-connected digital age.
My wife is a hopeless flea market addict. I've been involved in this kind of scouting multiple times, exploring the same spot for years or rummaging through the oddest venues all around the world. "What are we looking for?" I used to ask at the beginning of my career as hunter's assistant. The deal my wife was yearning for, and still is, was an authentic object, belonging to an authentic person who lived in an authentic place and behaved in authentic ways.