What is your favorite item you purchased in
Paris.....

so far a watercolor...an ashtray comes in second

Someday I hope it will be an apartment!

For my practical side...my tea from Mariage Freres..I drink it every day..

For my purely Paris side, a black suede fringed purse with a green jade medallion from Shanghai Tang...I think of Paris every time I look at it..

When I took my little daughter to Paris and we went down to the Seine where all the artists draw sketches of people. I looked at everyone's work and chose the best artist to draw my daughter. IT is one of my prized possessions and cost about $40 USD.

A poster from Willi's Wine Bar!

Never fails.....always brings a comment from people new to our home!

Not souvenirs. My favorite purchases have been the cheeses and wines we've eaten on Paris picnics.

Hermes scarf!!

Besides my Hermé's scarf, an unpublished book of limited 500 copies of Sempé's cartoons on animals(If you read the Newyorker, you've seen some on the cover's.Posters's given to me one at the exhibition of Sempé's work. And a poster that I was given at the Petit Bofinger that I admired.

A light fixture we have hanging up in our dining room. Every time someone asks where it is from I smile & say... Paris!!

A handmade yellow polka-dot umbrella from a gorgeous and very expensive umbrella shop along the boulevard St. Germain. Every time it rains and I stand beneath my shelter, I pretend I'm actually walking in Paris.