Cabinet des Curiosités Map, Surrealism - Pompidou

 

On ETSY NOW.

Maybe my curiosity was peaked 🤔

After a visit to Messy Nessy’s Cabinet back in July.

I went to buy stamps on Saturday

 

JOYEUX NOËL EVERYONE !! I went uptown to buy more stamps late Saturday 

Completely forgetting it was a big day for last-minute shoppers & window gazers. This is Printemps!

Boutique du Conseil Constitutionnel, Palais-Royal, Luxembourg Chair

 

Monday morning I went back to Palais-Royal again.

An opening of a new pocket boutique, 

du Conseil Constitutionnel 

Situated in the Palais-Royal courtyard at 24 galerie du Chartres. 

Anyone can bring back touristic mini Eiffel Towers or Mona Lisa socks.

But this is a new specially designed collection of witty, sophisticated gifts that will definitely impress your French friends back home or for yourself. 

Message socks/chaussettes saying, “You are free to come and go”. Isabelle, who has an online luxury journal, tried to explained to me how the Conseil works. An individual citizen can approach and request an injustice be addressed but don’t quote me. French government and the 5th republic is way outside my limited areas of expertise (mainly art and pastry).

Anyway the tricolor 🇫🇷 collection of socks, notebooks, and umbrella are stunning and have playful puns based on words of the law.

We met the designer, Pascale Brun d'Arre, who specializes in museum products and has worked with the National Assembly and Louvre museum. The National Assembly has a fabulous boutique for anything tricolor 🇫🇷.

If constitutional message socks (7,50€) are not your thing, you could go all out on a handsome LIP watch (245€) the French government gave this to Churchill in 1948.

I went all out on these embroidered red pencils (20€) from Macon and Lesquoy I could not resist. I passed on the embroidered pigeon. Why didn’t I get a green Apilco cup😟

I put it on immediately of course. My pin collection is growing. *Chanel staff treat me nicely when they see the Karl pin.

I believe they said they will have classy message baseball caps in the Fall, though I could be wrong…

The boutique had the mini version of the Luxembourg chair we are all so crazy about. I was crazy enough to buy it (they gave us a nice discount). 

I found out today from Fermob you can not buy that shade of Luxembourg green 🎨. It is proprietary. You can own it, if you buy one of my watercolors on etsy lucky PBers. 

On the way out of the park I passed the classic Paris Cafe Nemours but envelopes were calling. Later in the day the Guarde Republicain passed down my street in full regalia. Were they practicing for Bastille Day or going off to meet the President of Italy? There’s always something exciting happening in Paris. Come back soon svp ☺️🐻🇫🇷🤸🏾‍♀️

Sunday in the Park with the Luxembourg Chair

 

Alison of Glasgow asked, 

“Could you please do more maps with Luxembourg garden chairs besides Paris Parcs map? Tried to take one home last visit but they are too heavy for the plane”. I could have told her to take the Eurostar instead but thought better of it.

Next day as I went to buy more letter paper..voila. The Fermob shop was next door and Alison’s chair was in the window. My life is one karmic destiny after another.