MORE ANTIQUARIANS

THE NEXT STREET IS A POINT OF DEPARTURE: ANTIQUARIANS CLUSTER ON ALL OF THEM

(RUE DE BEAUNE) 

 

Come upon signs for "Carré Rive Gauche" (the name for the hundred antiquarians)

Among their shops...

• A glimpse of the Old Régime 

Laurent Chalvignac Antiquités

33 rue de Lille 

(At the crossroad of rues de Beaune and de Lille)

For the man with the red bow, please click.

• Continuations

Gabrielle Laroche

12 et 17 rue de Beaune, 25 rue de Lille

www.gabrielle-laroche.com

Madame Laroche's daughter Amélie Laroche

 heads the part of her establishment

that is across the street.

"Antiquarians often transmit their professions to their children,"

 she said when I remarked that a number of shops seemed inherited.

That is a trace of pre-industrial times, 

when almost everyone continued their parents' profession.  

 

Six months later

• Canes, dandy's ultimate accessory 

Galerie Jantzen

18 rue de Beaune

   The Traveller Looks over a Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich, vers 1817 / zoom

Another example of transmission: The book is by the owner's mother. 

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Shops can have another specificity. For example:

Sinapango

23 rue de Beaune

www.cristina.ortega.com

Cushions made of obi, the sumptuous sashes of Japan  

"How did you come to open a boutique devoted to Asia ?"

 I asked the owner. 

"I visited San Francisco's Chinatown as a little girl

and fell in love with its colors."

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Most of the Carré Rive Gauche boutiques

merit a page to themselves.

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