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Bringing Home French Trophies, Sans Travel
Blogged under Boutiques, Collectibles, Furniture and Home Decor by John DeFore on Tuesday 4 March 2008

You know what’s tough about shopping for antiques in Paris? Having to pay the airfare. Kinda turns that $35 bargain lampshade into the frying-pan-paris-hotel.jpgmost expensive thing in your living room. Enter Paris Hotel Boutique, which isn’t actually in France at all (it’s the web outpost of San Fran vintage shop Past Perfect), but it does stock treasures rarely found together in one place in the States. Some of the shop’s wares, like this $1,100 pair of 19th-century chairs, are bulky enough to require bend-over-backward special shipping arrangements, but plenty are easily shipped. This beautifully deteriorating cast-iron mirror ($255), for instance, or a jeweled crown ($585) that’s thought to be around 100 years old and, though originally designed for a statue of a saint, might make some lucky mortal queen for a day. Full pages are devoted to an array of china and silver goods bearing the mark of various fine hotels, but few are as distinctive as a cute tiny frying pan (pictured) evidently sold as a souvenir by Paris’s Restaurant Lasserre ($75). Try explaining that goodie to guests who know you’ve never had a passport in your life.

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