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August 9, 2010 10:31 am
Mexico City is heating up these days, and with shops like La Valise popping up, it’s not hard to see why. The recently opened store is a one-stop shop for the kind of design objets the stylish traveler wants—you know, a carefully curated assortment of sixties Mexican surf rock records, rare books, and, ahem, Oaxacan sex toys.
Antiques dealer Emmanuel Picault—of the nearby Chic by Accident antique gallery—and event producer Jose Luis Madrigal stock the four-room shop with exactly what strikes their fancy, which turns out to be a bit of anything and everything. “This is the territory we want to create: a space for passion, a space that is the beginning for new dialogues, for things for people to really share—a boudoir!” says Picault, a 20-year resident of Mexico City. That includes a bookstore, curated by Madrigal, with volumes in English, Spanish, French, and Italian, and a space for antique and contemporary design pieces (including the surf rock records by Los Temerarios; the aforementioned toys, by Jason Phlol; capes and ponchos by fashion designer Carla Fernandez; and so on). The other two rooms are dedicated to photography, like an upcoming show by Dutch photog Bob Schalkwijk, of buildings still in ruins 25 years after the Mexico City earthquake. And come September, a nineteenth-century printing press will be installed in the shop, where throughout the month, a different writer or artist will print limited-edition treats every day.
The boutique is already attracting its share of famous fans, like Christian Louboutin, who hung out at its opening bash, chatting up Marie José Paz. She was on hand to exhibit a rare book by Marcel Duchamp and her Nobel Prize-winning husband, Octavio Paz. Its title, aptly enough: La Valise.
La Valise, Zacatecas 126, Mexico City, 52-55-5564-9013.
tags: Emmanuel Picault, Jose Luis Madrigal, La Valise, Mexico City
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