LE PETIT LIVRE BLEU
Discover handpicked shopping gems in Paris and Provence — from chocolate ateliers to indie bookshops — woven seamlessly into your personal itinerary.
Debauve & Gallais
The oldest chocolate house in Paris — founded by a royal pharmacist, designed by Napoleon's architects, and still selling the medicinal coin it invented for Marie-Antoinette. A Percier-and-Fontaine interior on...
Debauve & Gallais
Debauve & Gallais
La Soufflerie
There is a particular quality of light inside a glassblowing studio that has not changed in two thousand years. La Soufflerie works in that same light, producing 100% mouth-blown vessels...
La Soufflerie
La Soufflerie
Trésors Publics
Most entries in the little blue book lead to Paris. This one asks you to go south — to the old town of Nice, where a shop called Trésors Publics...
Trésors Publics
Trésors Publics
Astier de Villette
The rue Saint-Honoré has had its share of beautiful shops across the centuries, but nothing on it quite prepares you for Astier de Villatte, a short walk from the Palais-Royal,...
Astier de Villette
Astier de Villette
Mad et Len
In one of Paris’s most beautiful covered passages, a house born from a refusal to live any other way makes candles and scents of startling depth. Mad et Len is...
Mad et Len
Mad et Len
Oriza L. Legrand
In a quiet passage off the rue Rambuteau, the oldest pastel manufacturer in the world has been making colors by hand since 1720. A visit is among the most singular...
Oriza L. Legrand
Oriza L. Legrand
La Maison du Pastel
In a quiet passage off the rue Rambuteau, the oldest pastel manufacturer in the world has been making colors by hand since 1720. A visit is among the most singular...
La Maison du Pastel
La Maison du Pastel
La Mère de Famille
There is a kind of shop that refuses the logic of the present tense — that exists not as a retail operation responding to contemporary demand but as a continuous...
