Chilling in Paris one year I decided to swap the shop-till-you-drop mindset for something more ascetic. I would seek out The One Thing: a memento as vibrant, luxe and creative as the City of Light itself. An Hermès scarf, or carré.
I’d been staying in the Alphabet Room at a quirky boutique hotel called Apostrophe on the Left Bank. The rooms had a literary theme. I knew I’d found my keepsake when I saw, in the
