Musée Zadkine
100 bis rue d'Assas Paris 6th Métro: Vavin, Notre Dame des Champs
The charming garden home and studio of Russian-born sculptor Ossip Zadkine, hidden behind a wall near the Luxembourg Garden. The sculptor lived here from 1928 to his death in 1967 and his work is displayed in the studio and garden. Closed Mon.Michel Chaudun
149 rue de l’Université Paris 75007
A wonderful chocolate shop filled with traditional filled chocolates and trompe l’oeil creations including chocolate gargoyles. Specialties are the dark pastilles filled with crunchy bits of cocoa bean and the melt-in-your-mouth pavés, little cubes of cocoa-dusted ganache.Cinquième Sens
18 rue Monttessuy Paris 75007
Custom-made perfumes can be created in this perfumers’ workshop formerly reserved only for professionals.Brame & Lorenceau
68 blvd Malesherbes Paris 75008 Métro: St-Augustin
Created 30 yeas ago by a merger of two galleries founded in 1864, now specializing in 19th- and 20th-century paintings, drawings and sculpture, as well as modern and contemporary art, offering works by such artists as Degas, Caillebotte, Blanche, Daumier, Carolus-Duran, Fantin-Latour, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Sisley and Rodin.Le Bon Marché
24 rue de Sèvres Paris 75007
Founded in 1852, it’s the oldest of the major department stores, and the only one on the Left Bank, now owned by luxury goods group LVMH and catering to an upmarket crowd, with cutting-edge designer labels and custom-made suits for men.Canzi
2 rue Ferdinand Duval Paris 75004
Select your own ingredients and watch as Stephane Mottay whips up your personalised organic face cream.Musée Guimet
6 Place d’Iéna Paris 75016 Métro: Iéna
One of the Western world's most important Asian art museums, with outstanding collections from China, Japan, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. Closed Tues.Jugetsudo By Maruyama Nori
95 rue de Seine Paris 75006
A small Japanese tea salon and boutique beautifully designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and run by the 150-year-old Tokyo firm Maruyama Nori, with a long counter for sipping tea with pastries, a selection of teas, traditional teapots and porcelain cups, and bamboo everywhere. Saturday tea ceremonies downstairs.Et Puis C’est Tout
72 rue des Martyrs Paris 75018
A great collection of 1950s-1970s furniture, barware, lamps and hundreds of key chains, mostly brand-specific, logo-emblazoned and iconic models.Maison Fabre
Jardins du Palais Royal 128-129 Galerie de Valois Paris 75001
The first Paris boutique of the family-run glove company founded in 1924, with a rainbow array of some 180 models all hand-crafted in the traditional glove-making town of Millau, in the Aveyron département of south-central France.Musée Carnavalet
16 rue des Francs-Bourgeois Paris 3rd Métro Saint Paul or Chemin Vert
The city’s fascinating museum of Paris history, installed in two adjoining 16th- and 17th-century mansions in the Marais district, one of them the former home of Madame de Sévigné. Closed Mon.Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
7 rue Debelleyme, Paris 75003 Métro: Filles-du-Calvaire
A chic contemporary art gallery run by the noted Austrian dealer Ropac, located in a Marais courtyard. Among the artists he reagularly shows are Mimmo Paladino, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Tom Sachs and Gilbert & George.