2023-08-10 21:43:31
Lunchtime is approaching at the Sablon and the gallery owner Jacques Dewindt is about to go out for a sandwich with his associate, when three customers show up.
Surrounded by drummer Roger Taylor and his secretary, Freddie Mercury hunts around in the antique dealers’ district of Brussels. Queen gives two concerts in a row at Forest National, as usual at the turn of the 70s-80s
and you have to have a little fun. A bit of shopping…
The singer is knowledgeable in art. He usually does his shopping in New York or London where fashions are made and undone. At the time in Sablon, contemporary design was hardly in vogue. The majority of antique shops actually stock antiques. Freddie Mercury is at the right address. At Dewindt, few objects, but very beautiful, avant-garde, and above all representative of this ending 20th century.
Freddie Mercury is dressed with sobriety but we recognize him from afar. The singer does not make his star, but he is one. And the girls of Daschbeck, the posh school around the corner, recognize it. About thirty high school girls crowd in front of the window of the antique dealer. You have to lock the door of the shop…
Freddie Mercury had the eye, and the rightVery nice and reserved, Freddie Mercury browses at Jacques Dewindt who does not believe his eyes. “He was very polite, a little withdrawn. But he had the eye, and the good
“.His gaze falls on a very very tall piece of furniture from the beginning of the century, signed Louis Bénouville, an unknown French cabinetmaker but to be reconsidered, between Art Nouveau and Baroque. “That will go well in my castle, the ceilings are so high…
“Deal concluded, without discussion despite a price “considerable
“, the secretary takes care of everything, including the delivery.
But that’s not all, the singer spots a huge 1920s vase, produced by the Daum glassworks, the French equivalent of Val Saint-Lambert. An XXL size champagne bucket. Freddie Mercury, who thinks big, buys it.“The week has been good
“, smiles Jacques Dewindt. Customers with strong purchasing potential with taste, he does not see them every day in Brussels at that time.
The party will not stop there, the secretary also sends them two backstage passes for Forest National. The show must go on…
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