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I could probably have gotten the French spice cabinet, but when bidding stopped at $180, I stopped, too, afraid I was the only person who didn't realize it was from Restoration Hardware.
The pain d'épice, an apple and spice mousse cake (below) from Payard Pâtisserie, 1032 Lexington Avenue (74th Street) and in the Americana Manhasset Mall on Long Island, takes its cue from traditional French spice bread.
Some were clearly designed to evoke something of their secular surroundings and the home it seemed to promise: an 1880 menorah from Russia is crowned with the double-headed eagle, a symbol of the Russian empire; a 19th-century French spice box, used in a service marking the end of the Sabbath, is in the shape of the Eiffel Tower.
As I studied the lots, my near-total ignorance of antiques did not prevent me from picking out certain items whose value, I was sure, nobody else had discerned: a pair of white porcelain monkeys hanging from the ceiling, a French spice cabinet, a mirrored Louis XV reproduction coffee table, and the Buddha lamp.
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The shop is small and rather shabby-looking but smells amazing, filled with the scents of middle-eastern spices, French cheese and lavender.
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