Weird interior design

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There’s a group called Weird Secondhand Finds That Just Need To Be Shared dedicated to some of the most "wat da heck" oddities found at thrift stores, flea markets, garage sales, and wherever you go not to spend an arm and a leg on something that functions. If you just got here, check out our previous posts with their catches here, here, and here.

Atop an 18th-century building in the Ainay neighborhood of Lyon’s second arrondissement, surrounded by antique dealers, bouchon lyonnaise and quaint local markets, sits the apartment of Serge Rosenzweig, gallery owner and collector of objets d’art. Rosenzweig embodies an ease and candor that comes from an early life spent pivoting numerous careers and titles, from painter…