Vanessa Grall is the voice, author, and editor of Messy Nessy Chic, a Paris blog with a cult following. She started the blog in 2010, and it has a huge fan club and following. Over the years, Grall has parlayed the blog into a mini empire, with a series of insider city guidebooks, Don’t be a Tourist in Paris, London, Copenhagen, and New York, online city guides, products, a private online club, and consulting services. The blog is a mix of quirky and obscure findings about Paris and many other things, done with humor and sometimes a wink of the eye.
Messy Nessy Chic has once again expanded its empire with the opening of a retail shop in the Latin Quarter, Messy Nessy’s Cabinet. I popped over there two weeks ago and met Vanessa, who was cool and laid back
The boutique is what you would expect, if you know the blog: quirky, offbeat, fun, interesting, and eccentric. Wood shelves are lined with books about travel, history, novels and memoirs about Paris, a trivia card game Parisian Pursuit. Other curiosity items include Seine River water in a bottle, antiques, Surreal eyeglasses, paintings, and baseball hats. There’s a fun series of mini-curiosity cabinets hung inside of empty frames.
Vanessa is usually in the shop, as she lives nearby and her office is in the back, so stop by and say Eye Prefer Paris sent you.
19 rue de Bievre, 75005
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