Shop At Maison B

Welcome to the archive site of Soho's most amazing Madame, Shopgirls and the Lady Gang from Shop at Maison B.

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Name: Madame
Location: London, United Kingdom

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

TIME FOR AN UPDATE?!

Hi Everybody - IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME YEAH??!! I have to say apart from sometimes longing for the pink wallpaper and some girly chats with winter coming I am happy not to be sitting under the stairs in 5 layers of thermal and a scarf 10 years long.

But what is the girly gossip I can update you with in lieu of the fact I can't do it over an eclair with you?

Madame and I wanted to let you know that Maison Bertaux will have their own lovely website soon and when we get the link, we will let you know.

Madame's own blog madamesays.com has turned into an Internet hit and was voted by The Telegraph as on of the top 20 fashion blogs along with The Sartorialist, Susie Bubble and GoFugYourself. See for yourself!

If you need to get a personal fix of Madame herself, don't forget to head East to Hackney Road and visit M Goldstein the shop full of stuff you never realised you HAD TO HAVE run jointly with Nathaniel "I know where I can get one of those" Lee Jones.

Lektrogirl [me] is still addicted to the Internet and CSI, works for Denza, Consults with financial management and record keeping, runs an amateur erotic online gallery which is definitely NSFW [not safe for work!] called lameatnames. I've also started with two of the other Lady Gang, The Cardinal from Picnic-Land and Sarah Lee a blog about one of the Shop At Maison B Lady Gang's passions VINTAGE CHINA and AFTERNOON TEA - swooning just typing it! Take a look at our personal treasures at madameatrois.com

Sarah Lee the professional shutter bug has her own website these days sarahmlee.com with her whole folio of celebrities and fabulous nobodies like us lot drunk and showing off at Lady's Nights.

Mrs Gorman has her own blog now too Mrs Gorman where she reports her latest fashion fixations from her desk. [More likely the sofa in Thai fisherman's trousers.]

Last but not least, Max Karie, who knows a great lady when he sees one can be checked out on the regular at his own site maxkarie.com and he is still Consulting, Brainstorming, Powerhousing, Idea Having!!!

Most of all WE MISS YOU. We get together for Lady's Night - our supper club - about once a month to keep up with each other now rather than over a cake and coffee. Sadly none of us have a living room big enough to accommodate you all [give us a room and a table big enough we would sure as hell try!!] so I think the best thing to do would be roll up to one of Madame's DJ gigs - Pippa Brooks appears at Pony Step, still at The George and Dragon - and you can find details of all of that at madamesays.com

xx Lektrogirl & Madame

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

SUSIE BUBBLES'S BIG UP!!

We love Susie Bubble and she loves us it seems! We didn't make it to the Time Out Top 100 Shops List, but Susie sets the record straight in her post here on Susie's Style Bubble.

THANK YOU SUSIE!!

Oh and P.S. We also supply Milk Bar, the cafe on Bateman Street, with Madame A Trois china for having a cup of tea there. Apparently Bjork was in the other day and drank her green tea out of this cup:



xx Lektrogirl

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Monday, May 12, 2008

We have a winner!!!

Lovely Nina is the winner of our competition to photograph yourself/have someone photograph you, in one of this season's pieces purchased at Shop at Maison Bertaux!!!!

Well done Nina! Your Madame A Trois trio is boxed and ready for you to pick up and we'll throw in a cake of your choice to pop on your cake plate! - a drink's too wet without one after all! - Thanks for your entries, we'll do this again I reckon, it's very difficult to choose, but for now Nina will be showing off her Sonia by Sonia Rykiel top on our home page!



Apparantly this is her at "work"!

Madame xx

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

TRAUMATISED


The Madame A Trois vintage china trios has started to sell and one of my favourites has been snapped up. I didn't think I would get so attached! I'm sure our ladies will have nothing but the best homes to go to. But I remember when I was really little getting quite alarmed that one of my dolls didn't actually have the capacity to breath and I was terrified it would suffocate. Kind of weird I know but I'm over it now.

Also, tonight I spent watching the CSI episodes directed by Quentin Tarantino where Agent Nick Stokes [aka Poncho to his father] gets trapped underground in a plexi-glass box by an evil kidnapper. I was on the edge of my seat watching it. You'd think by the 6th or 7th time I'd watched it some of the edge would have worn off by now...

Less traumatic but definitely equally as exciting is that Flat White the Aussie/New Zealand café on Berwick Street has grown a sister - called Milk Bar on Bateman Street - which is far closer to Maison Bertaux. Now, I will not have a bad word said about the creamy banana eclairs that come out of the kitchens of Maison Bertaux, but I have to admit that I do prefer a Soy Latte from Milk Bar any day of the week. Hopefully as many days of the week as possible. The first day it opened I was there knocking a couple of lattes back just to make sure the new café was up to scratch. I give it 10/10!!

xx Emma

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Friday, April 11, 2008

Madame a Trois.

As promised here is the Madame a Trois blog......

So....we're under the jewel that is Maison Bertaux, with the finest cream cakes, croissants and pastries in all of London town! What makes a cake? Why, a cup of tea! A drink's too wet without one don't they say? So it follows that we are fans of the teaset, especially if it's mismatched crockery trios. If you're stuck for the perfect gift we say a pretty trio (teacup, saucer and cake plate), packed in a cake box to go, with a bow on top for £29 will please most ladies.....especially those who we've come to love as "our" ladies!



Gift probs over!!!

Madame x

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