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Robbe started his entrepeneurship in 2010 at the age of 23 with a 2ndhand bussines called Verkoopzaal Robbe. Still active today and primarely a total house clearing bussines with the store located in Vladslo-Diksmuide.
Since moving from Bruges the idea of returning to his native city was kept alive with opening his first pop-up store/café in the summer of 2014. The first Brocante Café at Genthof 24 in Bruges served as the perfect learning experience. He popped up again in september 2016. This time with a bigger team, bigger store ,bigger stock and with the same dedication.
Caroline joined the staff and since the opening day on 17 september 2016 she has been the vital link between Robbe and a clean store.
It got easier to tidy up the shop when Robbe went on a life changing adventure in 2018 .A game show called Expeditie Robinson (‘survivor’) 33 days on an island with 2x socks, underpants, shorts,t-shirt and definitely no antiques !
Halleluja , there came Viktor, who , while studying helped out for 2 years giving a digital feel to our stock and improving the looks of the haircut within the team , he since has started his own project with Viktor Allemeersch Antiques & Vintage.
Fast forward to 2022 : In the meantime our team is organising the yearly flea market in the langestraat the last sunday of april . A new project was launched in Torhout setting up transport and logisctics for third party antique dealers (Mr. Brocante Antique shipping) .
In August 2022 Brocante cafe is put in the spotlight in ‘Het beste bod’ a television show on play4 / Goplay where Robbe was entangled in bidding wars with 5 other flemish colleagues such as Paul De Grande and Marielle Domm .
December 2022 a new strong independent man strengthened the team, Wouter was set up do endure the dirty jobs at verkoopzaal Robbe in the first months of his appointment , seeing this through gave him the chance to have a go at the Brocante Cafe tasks , pushing the button on the camera for website purposes ,not the pedestall the ladies would like to see him on, having a go as a Brocante Café bartender made them cheer a lot more , to this day he is still on view most thursdays.
