My Parisian Cobblestone: Parisian Origin Guaranteed

Mon Pavé Parisien sells real cobblestones from Paris. They are all directly provided by the Paris City Hall. All our cobblestones are hand-painted. It makes each of them special. A unique souvenir for a special gift. Here are some of our creations.

My Parisian
Cobblestone – 60€ / 70$
A real piece of Paris as a souvenir, in a numbered serie for an unique piece. The “Mon Pavé Parisien” inscription is hand-painted in our workshops of the 11th district of Paris.
My Gold plated Parisian Cobblestone – 150€ / 188$
Serie n°3 “Gold”. The unexpected alliance of raw granite and gold, for a luxury gift as a Paris souvenir. Gilded with 22.5 carats gold leaf, by a gilder craftsman for more than 30 years.
My Eiffel
Cobblestone – 75€ / 88$
Serie n°4 “My Eiffel Cobblestone”. Based in Paris, the Eiffel Tower has embolized France for a century. Hand-painted in our workshops in Paris. A real Made in France souvenir.
My Street Art
Cobblestone – 75€ / 88$
Serie n°5 “Paris”. Does exist in blue and in red, which are the 2 colors of Paris city. “Paris” is hand-painted, in our workshops in our workshops in Paris.

 

“For a modest price, the streets of Paris can be yours”
said Benoit Morenne from the New York Times!

Customizable Cobblestones
You can ask for a special or a customizable cobblestone. We try our best to match your expectations.
My Parisian Cobblestone
Our classic parisian Cobblestone (serie n°1), hand-peinted in our workshops in Paris, is outside, on place des Vosges (Paris).

 

 

A cube of Paris. Its name “Mon Pavé Parisien” which means My Cube from Paris.

Coco Chanel might have walked on this pavement of granite. Or Victor Hugo or even Charles de Gaulle. Witness of the life of Parisians for more than 800 years.

Serie N°2 “My Cobblestone May68” is over.

Encounting

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo holds one of our “Mon Pavé Parisien” Parisian Cobblestones (Photo: Henri Garat)

Summer 2016: Margaux drives her red Vespa, wearing a light dress on the Champs-Elysées. A car cuts off the road. Margaux stops and falls on a unsealed cobblestone.

She would like to bring it home. To exhibit it between antic books and a ceramic unicorn. Still, taking this unsealedcobblestone home would have endangered cyclists or Vespa drivers.

Margaux continues her way and, later, shesearches on the Internet  how to get her own Pavé Parisien. In vain.

Thus was born “Mon Pavé Parisien” : Margaux buys it to the Paris City Hall, she washes it, she reworks it, she paints it, packs it, labels it.

From there on, everyone has a chance to own their piece of Parisian granit-made patrimony.

This piece of Paris suits perfectly with your interior!
Real Parisian cobblestones in their real environment: a street of Paris.

 

835 years of history

Philip 2., knowed as Philip Augustus, was the first serial-street-builder. He decided to enclose the city of Paris with walls on the sides (enclosure of Philippe-Auguste) and on the ground with the first paving of the streets of Paris from 1181.

Streets of Paris (France), in 1223.

The climax of Le Pavé (cooblestone) in Paris is reached in 1968 with 800 hectares of paved streets. From 1968 on, with the riots of Mai 68, strangely, the public authorities decided to privilege massively the coating of bitumen which launches less easily on the forces of order in case of barricades.

“Mon Pavé Parisien” is a real cooblestone of Paris, bought directly from the city of Paris Council, which recycles 8,000 tons of granite every year. “Mon Pavé Parisien” is part of a sustainable development approach and it arrives on your shelf at the end of its cycle in the circular economy.