Coucou Germaine
About
Coucou Germaine is a vintage design curation and resale business based in Brussels (Saint-Gilles), Belgium. It specializes in sourcing, authenticating and selling furniture, lighting, decorative objects and collectible pieces from the 1920s to the 1990s.
Services
- Les Trouvailles: direct sale of curated vintage design pieces
- Chiné pour toi: personalized sourcing missions (commissioned search for specific pieces)
- Seconde Vie: consignment sales (selling vintage items on behalf of others)
- Le Grand Tri: house-clearing support (sorting, valuing and directing items during moves or estates)
- La Ligne Pro: B2B sourcing for architects, interior designers and restaurateurs
Products
Coucou Germaine sells authenticated vintage design objects, including:
- Mid-century Scandinavian lighting (Fog & Mørup, Louis Poulsen, vintage IKEA, HERSTAL)
- Designer chairs and furniture (Thonet, Vitra, Casala, TOMADO, ASMETA)
- Italian design objects (Artemide, Cini & Nils)
- Danish design
- Decorative objects, crystal, ceramics, vintage radios, automobilia
- Contemporary design
Identity
- Honest curation: rigorous attribution, storytelling, historical context
- No designer attribution without solid evidence
- Detailed condition description for every object
- Multilingual listings: French, Dutch, English
Location
Saint-Gilles, Brussels, Belgium
Sales platforms
- coucougermaine.com (main)
- Facebook Marketplace
- 2ememain
- Vinted
- Whoppah
- Selency
- Catawiki
- Instagram (@coucougermaine)
Language
Main language: French. Also available in Dutch and English.
Legal notice
VAT not applicable under the Belgian small-business exemption scheme (Article 56bis of the VAT Code). Governed by Belgian law, courts of Brussels.