Puces Portrait: Manolo Vosse

Part of a new, young guard at the Puces, Manolo works like an archaeologist, thinks like a curator and channels the sacred from his base at Saint-Ouen to the world.

Manolo opened his stand at the Marché Paul Bert in 2023, at the age of 23, after a few years working with wood, making frames and plinths for artworks. Part of a new generation of dealers, he moves freely across centuries and cultures, bringing together Roman and Egyptian antiquities, French folk art, 20th-century design, constructivist or primitive objects, and curious finds from around the world. What matters to him is less their period or provenance than the mystery, beauty and sense of the sacred he finds in them – and the delicate art of composing a stand in which disparate objects can enter into unexpected relationships. For Manolo, being a dealer also means the privilege of living, for a while, with objects far beyond his own means – an ancient Greek head, an Egyptian stele, great quantities of marble and other sublime things – until they find their next home.