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PHOTOS: COURTESY DJUNA
Intrepid Travel With Djuna Exploring the World’s Cultures,
Cuisines and Timeless Art
By Hillary Locke Mujica WALK INTO DJUNA and you will feel as if you’ve been swept away to another land, surrounded by unique treasures from around the world. Located in the heart of Denver’s Antique Row, the one-of-kind pieces that cover the 7,000 square-foot store, are all hand-picked by the husband-and-wife team, Jeffery and Karen Moore, who have owned and operated the shop for 25 years. “Each piece we source has a story, and we get to share those stories which brings us so much joy,” shares Karen Moore, who in her previous life, owned a folk and a contemporary art gallery. “These global buying trips allow us to curate such rare, one-of-a-kind pieces that instantly personalize your home.” Over the years, close friends and clients (who have become friends) begged the Moores to take them along on their buying trips, and about ten years ago, that’s just what they did. They invited twelve guests to go “behind the curtain” to shop for collectible brocante throughout France, Mexico and Argentina. With the Moores’ expert eyes and key relationships with dealers at local antiques fairs, their guests find treasures to fill their homes and their souls. 78
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Every year, the group visits three Antique Fairs—L’Isle sur la Sorgue, Montpellier and Avignon and explores towns such as Gordes, Roussillon and Menerbes; enjoys wine tastings, including a favorite at the famed Chateauneufdu-Pape and are hosted at the picturesque Chateau Talaud, a 17th-century chateau, owned for 22 years by some friends of the Moores. “These trips appear to be about buying only, but that’s not the case. They’re about experiencing local cultures and cuisines, being together with a small group of friends who all share the same passions and the pure joy of traveling. The shopping is just the cherry on top,” shares Karen. “We have guests that come back year after year. Mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, interior designers, girlfriends— they all come back each year because it’s the type of trip they could never arrange on their own. It’s truly a unique experience.” And it’s the quarter-century of relationships that allow the Moores access to these brocanteurs, wineries, the Chȃteau where they stay in Provence, galleries and more. Plus, the biggest issue when buying home furnishings overseas is shipping everything
