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Back to France!
It's time for another buying trip! We skipped the hot weather in France this summer, and we are headed across the pond next week. September in France is a fabulous month. The kids are back in school, the tourists are gone, and the weather is fantastic! It is also grape harvest season so a detour to one of the wine regions may be in order as well. This trip I will have a different traveling companion. For the last ten years, my son Alexander has been my constant traveling companion on our buying trips to France, but he is off to new adventures in Ecuador as a foreign service officer for the U.S. State Department. We are so proud of him!
Terry, my life companion for the past thirty-seven years, will be making this next buying trip with me. Although the two of us have traveled thousands of kilometers together through France, both for pleasure and for business, he has often been the one to stay home holding down the fort (meaning home, job, shop, and children). We are excited to be working in France together again.
We will be in France from September 5th to the 28th. Let us know if you have anything on your wish list and follow us on Facebook as we post about our latest adventures.
Now's the time to take advantage of our complimentary custom shopping service too. Complete your detailed wish list below, and we'll email you photos of pieces we find in France that could meet your needs. Plus, all custom purchases qualify for a 10% discount. You will have your own custom shopper in France.
French Metro Musings
For the past sixteen years, French Metro Antiques has been traveling to France at least twice a year to seek and acquire beautiful pieces of furniture, art, and decorative objects to bring back to our clients. January buying trips mean new arrivals in the spring, and June buying trips bring a new container to our shop in the fall. So on January 9th, Harrison and I took our usual trip, looking forward to the hunt as well as to seeing our old friends and colleagues in the business of antiques.
After a successful buying trip, we were back in the Charles De Gaulle airport nearly three weeks later, and Covid19 had just begun to rear its ugly head. We saw some travelers wearing masks, and the word was out. We arrived safely back in Fayetteville on January 27th. Quite unaware of what was to come, we went back to work to our routine—tie up the transportation details in France, organize the transatlantic shipping, notify the customs broker, and create a marketing plan for our April arrivals. We set out to create emails for our spring shipment and decided on a theme of capturing what we as humans do in our leisure time. What are the simple pleasures of life that contribute to a rich life? What pieces in our new collection spoke to that? With our photographer, we set up vignettes in our shop for inspiration and let the creative juices flow. Then the world began to change. We, among all of our friends, family, and our whole community found ourselves at home, sequestered, sheltered, distanced. Our shop closed, many of our friends’ businesses closed. So where does French Metro fit in? What about this shipment arriving in April? Do we move forward with our usual routine? One thing we know is you can’t stop a ship on the water from delivering a container. Once it has set sail, a shipment is on the way. And so our container sailed in February and arrived last week.
Our French Metro team enlisted some trusted friends to help us unload, and then Harrison, Daniel, and I set to work—unpack, clean, restore, and arrange a shop that may not be open for weeks. Work is good for the soul, and being surrounded by beautiful things that we love reminds us that although the world is full of uncertainty, there are things that restore our spirits. For us, one of those things is beauty. So Harrison shined and polished. Daniel cleaned and restored. And Renee priced and decorated with Harrison playing multiple roles, moving back and forth between the workshop and the showroom floor for decorating.
The shop is closed, but we move forward. Our photographer has been here photographing everything to put on our website, and you will see our latest arrivals online soon. Our passion for all things French, our love of French history, culture, language, and antiques has not waned. Our theme of leisure time and pastimes is more a propos than we could have anticipated. To our clients, we hope you are safe and healthy. Perhaps you are rediscovering hobbies while you are at home or finding new ones. In some small way, we hope a little beauty from French Metro, if even only virtually, can give you a bit of respite as well.
Our Fall 2019 Shipment is here!
Autumn is around the corner, and our latest arrivals from our summer trip to France are here! It was another successful buying trip, and this time Renee and Harrison were joined by brother Alexander and French son-in-law Nicolas as they made their way from the south of France to the north. As always, French Metro will be closed this next week to unpack and will reopen our doors on Friday, August 30th at 10am. Come see what's new or stay tuned to our website for our latest treasures from France in our Fall 2019 Collection!
Our Spring Shipment is Here!
It's spring and at French Metro, that means two things: tulips and a new shipment from France! The two thousand tulips planted at our shop are just peeking through the ground, and our work is just beginning as we unpack our latest arrivals from our January trip to France. We will be closed for a week starting Tuesday, March 7th, and will re-open our doors at 10am on Wednesday, March 15th with our four hundred fifty new arrivals. Also, save the date to attend our Champagne and Pastry Party on Saturday, March 25 from 5-7 pm to toast our new shipment with champagne and pastries, created by our visiting French pastry chef, Pauline Neilz.
Spring 2019 Arrivals from France Coming Soon!
It's spring and that means our latest arrivals from our winter buying trip to France are on their way! As always, we will be closing for a week while we unpack so stay tuned for an update on the arrival of our Spring 2019 Collection from France! We will be closed Wednesday, April 17th and will re-open our doors on Wednesday, April 24th at 10:00 am. Until then, here's a few of our finds you will be seeing soon in our shop or online.
New shipment from France on its way!
We are following the progress of our shipment as it makes its way to Fayetteville. This particular shipment is taking quite a long journey with lots of stops. The ship departed on October 22nd from the port of Le Havre on the French coast, headed up the English Channel to stop at Rotterdam, Holland then on to Bremerhaven, Germany. Next it headed back down the Channel and across the Atlantic to stop at Charleston, South Carolina. Finally a stop in the Bahamas and then on to Houston. Arrival in Houston is November 17th and then we wait while it gets through US Customs before it gets trucked to our loading dock on Dickson Street. It’ll be like Christmas for us here around Thanksgiving time.
There are many beautiful French farm tables this shipment along with some gorgeous nineteenth century oil paintings, a collection of antique French signs, gilt wood mirrors of all sizes, two iron fireplace backs, a few French industrial pieces, and some Art Deco furniture that took our breath away.
Our one-of-a-kind accessories on the way include an enormous brass telescope on a tripod and a pair of very large copper port and starboard ship lanterns, an exquisite toile porcelain of Paris pedestal sink, a gorgeous marquetry box signed by a renown French cabinet maker, a Moet et Chandon silver plate hotel champagne bucket…I could go on. We will send out our email when our ship’s come in. Until then, merci et à bientôt!
Bring on the Kings...and our fall shipment from France!
If you love antiques, you love history. The old soul inside you calls out to connect with the past. At French Metro, we live and breathe history, and specifically French history. The story behind the French decorative arts is the story of the monarchy. Each king throughout history brought his signature style to the furnishings and accessories produced for his chateaux and his court. The artisans in the countryside then followed suit, adapting the designs of the day to their own regional idiosyncracies. French Metro wants to take you on a journey through the history of the French monarchy. Follow us over the coming weeks as the story of the kings unfolds through our four hundred new arrivals from France. Our doors will be closed on Tuesday, August 28th while we unpack, and we will reopen on Tuesday, September 4th. Bring on the kings and our fall shipment from France!
Champagne and Pastries
Timing is everything, both in baking and in good fortune! French Metro Antiques shares its good fortune this weekend in presenting its very own French pastry chef. Pauline Nieltz, who makes her home in the Loire Valley in France, has been visiting our family in Fayetteville for the past three months. Trained in the culinary arts in the city of Angers and in the art of pastry making at the Centre de Formations d'Apprentissages in Tours, Pauline offers her sweet creations to our friends and customers at French Metro's Champagne and Pastry Party this Saturday, March 25th, from 5 to 7 pm Merci, Pauline!
Our spring shipment is on its way!
The French Metro Team slipped off to France this January without a word! Our new shipment arrives Thursday, March 22nd, with all of our unique finds from our winter trip. We will be closed this week while we unpack but will re-open our doors at 10:00 am Monday, March 26th.
Our spring shipment from France is here!
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