Fransk Bazar

Owned by two French expats, Nina Banggren and her husband Didier Descarpentries, this vintage boutique is a Francophile’s dream—roughly 90% of its products come from France, some of which date back to the early 1800s. The storeowners travel back to France about one a month to source their bounty, which includes photographs from the Tour de France (luckily, I scooped up a black-and-white print of cyclist Jean Robic from his 1947 tour win the day after Didier put it on display), movie posters from the 1920s, neon signs and antique furniture. The findings can vary depending on your visit, and some may find them peculiar—on my visit there were many prints of human anatomy from the 1850s, which were nevertheless artlike in their precision—but the hodgepodge of knick-knacks is a trove worth exploring.