As the summer is drawing to a close here in France and la rentrée – the annual return of France’s workers and students – looms on the horizon, I thought it would be a good moment to recap some of the copperware sights we’ve seen this year. Over the course of a summer, we tend to do…
Ah, the great department stores of Paris. Rising up behind the glorious Opéra Garnier on the city’s right bank, with all their many floors of designer goods, luxury articles and gourmet foods. Galleries Lafayette, Printemps, these names have become so famous and they attract such an audience that they have their own Paris metro stops.…
Welcome to the first post on our new French Kitchen Antiques blog. We will use this space in the future to give you more in-depth information on the history of antique French kitchenware, some of the stories behind famed manufacturers and of course updates about new antiques that we’ve added to our shop. We start…