Paris

Item #: UG0512
Price: $14.96
Proclaim your love of Paris with this lovely brooch featuring the Eiffel Tower. Made of nickel and lead-free alloys and measuring about 1¼"x2", our pretty Paris Brooch is sure to add au courant élan to any ensemble.

Item #: UF8672
Price: $15.00
If youre planning a trip to Paris, why not let a local show you around? Whether youre in the mood for a rousing street festival, a historic stroll, or a romantic evening, this handy and hip guide to the City of Light offers must-see attractions and off-the-beaten-path locales carefully chosen by a savvy Parisian. Packed with suggestions for hotels, restaurants, museums, landmarks, stores, and moreand supplemented with helpful maps and colorful photographsthis handsome little guidebook helps make every day of your visit perfectly pleasant.

Item #: UE0022
Price: $11.21
Bring beauty and pizzazz to even the most mundane jottings via our lovely sticky notes from Cavallini & Co. Each handsomely packaged tin comes with 480 decorative peel-and-stick flags in a variety of handy sizes--2"x2¼", ¾"x2¼", and 1¾"x1½"--for marking important passages or recipes and brightening up business and/or personal correspondence. For people so swank even their office supplies are stylish, these elegant sticky notes make the perfect present.

Item #: UD8462
Price: $9.71
If you're planning a trip to Berlin, London, New York, or Paris, here's your perfect traveling companion! These handy-dandy journals pack detailed city and transportation maps, street indices, visitor information, and 130 ruled and blank pages into a compact, 6"x4" little book, perfect for slipping into a pocket or purse while you're out and about. ( e bright red covers make them easy to spot in the recesses of your bag.) Embellished with Susy Pilgrim Waters's colorfully cheerful city-specific artwork on the endpapers, our Cool City Notes help jet-setters navigate these cosmopolitan cities--and keep track of their thoughts and observations--in style.

Item #: UG0532
Price: $16.95
Light a candle, close your eyes, and transport yourself to your favorite world metropolis! The artisan-made soy wax Travel Often Candles are scented with fragrances evocative of beloved urban centers: olive leaf and lemon for Rome, tea leaves and bergamot for London, amber and patchouli for New York, and lavender and mimosa for Paris. (You may find that these lightly aromatic candles smell a lot better than the actual cities!) Packaged in handsome tins (2½"x3¼"x3¼") with removable lids, the 7-ounce candles make special little gifts for your favorite traveling companions.

Item #: UF5842
Price: $187.50
Scholarly and luxurious, these two weighty tomes--about 11¼"x13½"x2¾" each, and packaged together in a sturdy slipcase--take the serious historian, art-lover, or traveler on a gorgeous and fascinating tour through 6,000 years of cultural history in Paris. With essays by Michel Laclotte (former director of the Louvre) and approximately 1,500 glorious illustrations, The Art and Spirit of Paris is destined to be reveled in and treasured for years to come.

Item #: UG1632
Price: $24.00
When Kati Martons husband, American diplomat Richard Holbrooke, died suddenly in 2010, only one city offered solace from her grief: Paris, where I became who I am…my one fixed point. She fell in love with the City of Light as a student in 1968, returning time and again during her tenure as a foreign correspondent for ABC News. Paris served as home base during her passionate courtship with veteran journalist Peter Jennings, and, after their turbulent marriage fell apart, the setting for a new relationship with then-ambassador to Germany Holbrooke. And when Richard was gone, the city where they had spent so many happy years together was the only place Kati could bear to go on alone. Part memoir, part love letter to a magnificent city so many have cherished, Paris: A Love Story will warm your heart.

Item #: UG1962
Price: $19.95
Angels of Paris celebrates the beautiful architecture, fascinating history, and enchanted atmosphere of Paris by taking the reader on a tour of the citys angels. From the Middle Ages to modern times, inspired artists have created stone, marble, bronze, ceramic, and mosaic angels, and tucked them into Pariss churches, theaters, museums, clocks, fountains, parks, and bell towers. With an abundance of delightful photographs and engagingly illuminative text, this special little (6¼" square) volume offers a divine armchair excursion through the angel-filled City of Light.

Item #: UG0492
Price: $52.00
Perfect for stylish urbanites and cosmopolitan travelers, our Big City Messenger Bags are handsomely decorated with vintage city-specific images and airmail postage markings printed on faux leather (made of PVC). With an adjustable arm strap, three interior pockets, an exterior pocket, and a magnetic snap closure, each 12"x10"x3" carryall makes an ideal sightseeing accessory--theres plenty of room for a map, a travel guide, a bottle of water, etc. The versatile bag is also great for commuting or running errands, with space for your current novel along with your everyday accoutrements! Wherever you go, these Big City Messenger Bags add a touch of worldly glamour to your look--just choose your favorite metropolis.

Item #: UF6272
Price: $21.95
Were sending some international flair right into your living room with this handsome decorative pillow featuring an image of the Eiffel Tower with airmail postal markings on beige backgrounds (with blue/red/brown patterns on the back), this soft, 18"x18" pillow (100% polyester cover and fill) resembles treasured postcards from European adventures. What wonderful housewarming--or homecoming!--gifts for well-traveled friends! (Made in the U.S.A.)

Item #: UG2772
Price: $35.00
I love Paris, I love French food, and I love this book! The photographs are stunning and the dishes they depict look just right. The recipes are not over-complicated and offer practical features I appreciate, such as preparation time, cooking time, and possible substitutions for the more esoteric ingredients. Even if you never make one of the recipes, youll enjoy the flavors of The Little Paris Kitchen.

Item #: UG0632
Price: $12.00
The Paris Review asked twenty contemporary greats of short fiction to select their favorite stories from the venerable literary journals archives. This anthology includes both classic works and underappreciated gems that illustrate the remarkable malleability of the form. Each of the stories features a short introduction by the author who chose it--Ann Beattie deconstructs the narrator of Craig Novas Another Drunk Gambler, Dave Eggers gleans lessons on dialogue from James Salters Bangkok, David Means marvels at Raymond Carvers use of space breaks in Why Dont You Dance…and so on. Writers and readers of short stories will savor this unusual collection of some of the more inventive works of the genre, and Object Lessons may also appeal to those not in the habit of reading them, to remind them how varied the form can be, how vital it remains, and how much pleasure it can give.

Item #: UG2302
Price: $19.19
When she was twelve years old, Stephanie LaCavas family moved from New York to a suburb of Paris. An introspective, socially awkward girl, LaCava was obsessed with cabinets of curiosities, historical efforts to catalog and control natures oddities, and found comfort in her own collection of objects. An Extraordinary Theory of Objects both chronicles LaCavas anxiety-ridden coming of age and delves into the wondrous stories hidden within the odd things she treasured during that time. This unusual memoir is itself a beautiful little curiosity.

Item #: UG0702
Price: $19.95
These unique guides to the worlds great cities reveal the rich and exciting history that is written in [the] streets. Supplemented with maps, photographs, and period drawings, these riveting chronicles are equally fun for history buffs, armchair travelers, tourists, and residents of Paris. The detailed walking tours in each volume will exponentially enhance your experience of the featured city. And the meticulous appendices make enlightened navigation a breeze.

Item #: UF7012
Price: $27.50
There are countless guides to Paris, but Ive never seen one as exuberantly inspirational and aesthetically pleasing as this one! Photographer/journalist Janelle McCulloch has created a sumptuously illustrated tour of the city, focusing on the most creative places and inspiring spaces in the stylish capital. The first half of the book invites the reader on a charming stroll through each arrondissement, pointing out off-the-beaten-path gems that embody the personality of each quartier. Next McCulloch offers an insiders handbook, recommending the best the city has to offer from amazing ateliers and gorgeous little stores to secret design museums, hidden quartiers, cuter-than-cute streets, engaging cafes and bookstores and even affordable design hotels. Dozens of beautiful full-color photographs alongside the enchanting text make this book as irresistible for armchair travelers--especially those with an interest in art, design, and/or fashion--as frequent fliers.