Specializing in exceptional 17th, 18th and 19th century French antiques, decorative and fine arts. Period furniture includes armoires, commodes, buffets, beds, chairs, tables in all sizes, chandeliers, candlesticks, mirrors, porcelain, coin silver, glassware and stemware, curtain hardware, homespun linen sheets, olive jars, engravings, oil paintings, as well as period picture frames, architectural elements and building materials. Only 15 minutes from Lafayette and 50 minutes from Baton Rouge.
Read a Times-Picayune article on Robert E. Smith — L’attidue ‘Antique Treasures In Breaux Bridge’
Principle Location: Henri Penne House
The Henri Penne Plantation complex has three buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Read a Southern Accents article about the Henri Penne complex, A Dream Among the Ruins (June 1991)
Louisiana Life article by Bonnie Warren on the restoration of the maison dimanche Henri Penne house, A Country Estate With a Story to Tell (July-August 1984)
Better Homes & Gardens article by Molly Culbertson about south Louisiana cooking, featuring dishes set in the Henri Penne house, with recipes Louisiana Potluck (February 1987)
Gardening the French Way (article on the Henri Penne 19th century style garden by Susan Stiles Dowell)
Au Vieux Paris in the Press:
Architectural Digest (March 1996)
Architectural Digest names Au Vieux Paris in it’s 109 Best (April 2001)
109 Best Announcement Flyer
Shopping Around the World (April 2001)
The Magazine Antiques Living With Antiques (April 1988)