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The historic setting - an old
atelier de rémoulage
(remoulding workshop) complete with
faded gold lettering above the shop front - makes the shopping experience at this Haut
Marais boutique filled with Isabel Marant designs all the more pleasurable.
ACCESSORIES
PAULINE PIN
11am-7.30pm Tue-Sat;
Filles du
Calvaire)
Invest in a super-soft and stylish handbag made by designer Clarisse at her workshop in the
Marais. She now has a handful of boutiques in France and beyond.
SHOES
K JACQUES
Traditional strappy sandals, supposedly inspired by a simple leather pair brought by writer
Colette from Greece to show her cobbler, is the speciality of this shoemaker from St-Tropez.
Celebrity clients included Picasso, Brigitte Bardot and the Baba Cool Generation.
FINE ARTS
ROUGIER & PLÉ
11am-7pm Tue-Sat,
2.30-7pm Sun & Mon; Filles du Calvaire)
The city's oldest
beaux arts
(fine arts) shop, in business since 1854, sells paper, pens, arts
and crafts materials - everything imaginable, in fact, for
le plaisir de crée
(the pleasure of
creation).
TOYS, FASHION
TUMBLEWEED
11am-7pm;
St-Paul or
Chemin Vert)
This little shop specialises in leather slippers for kids and
l'artisanat d'art ludique
(crafts of
the playing art): think handmade wooden toys and exquisitely made brain teasers and
puzzles for adults, such as Japanese 'spin' and 'secret' boxes that defy entry.
HOMEWARES, FASHION
PETIT PAN
Few boutiques are as enchanting or dazzling as Petit Pan, a wonderful Pandora's box of
beautiful fabrics, buttons and threads in every colour of the rainbow. A second space across
St-Paul)
, homes
