Quantcast
• Shopperati Home
• Shopperati Blog
• Top Shopping Bloggers
• Style Chronicles
• Gadgets and Advice
• Gift Guides
• Top Store Categories
• All Store Categories
• Resources
• Featured Items
 
Advertisement

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.

Please Share and Enjoy:

  • Mixx
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • del.icio.us
  • Reddit

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment


• Vlog with Jessica Roska
Watch our summer shopping spree

• View Recent Product Recalls
View a list from the Consumer Product Safety Commission

Advertisement
>> Many Happy Returns
Some advice on reading the fine print before trying to return gifts that were bought online

>> HDTV Headaches?
It's big. It's beautiful. Everyone is excited about that great new flat-panel TV. But before you start plugging in cords and getting confused, here are 5 important things to know

>> Shoppers' Resources
We've got loads of helpful, relevant links to make you a better informed online shopper

>> These are a Few of Our Favorite Things
We've broken the Shopperati Blog into categories to make it easier to find just the product that you need - from clothing to toys, tools to sporting goods

>> 10 Classic Fashion Gifts
blue-nile-diamond-earrings-white-box.jpgNot sure what to get that beautiful woman on your gift list? You can never go wrong with one (or more) of our classic fashion recommendations - from diamonds to pearls, Hermes to Chanel

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner


Search Shopperati



About Shopperati   Contact Shopperati   All contents copyright © 2008 Noofangle Media

Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved.