P.O.S.H. - Chicago

And just like that…
Welcome September - that gorgeous bridge month gently leading us from the glorious summer that was to the spectacular autumn that will be. Enjoying the very best of both seasons, we relish summer’s mellow final days and welcome the cooling embrace of early autumn.

As we turn the calendar’s page, we celebrate the changing season with shop windows that tell the timeless tale of hearth and home. A cozy French kitchen warmed by the glow of antique copper and a cupboard filled with sturdy white ironstone. Both windows welcome the generous bounty of the season ahead and invite us to linger around the table with dearest family and friends.
Let’s raise a glass to September!

A heartfelt thank you to for once again creating windows that inspire; beautifully capturing the cozy season ahead.🧡
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Join us as we welcome August and relax into the peak perfection of summer!
With a nod to the Paris Summer Olympics in full swing, our shop window celebrates all things bleu, blanc, rouge with a classic Paris café scene under its sheltering tricolor awning.
The iconic French meeting place for locals and visitors to enjoy a drink and a nibble as they watch the world go by discussing the latest scores and athletic feats!

Let the Games…and Summer…continue!💙🤍♥️
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Ouvrons Grand les Jeux!
Games Wide Open!

Around the world, all eyes are on Paris as the 2024 Summer Olympic Games begin! Olympic-sized dreams once again take flight in the city that is the historic birthplace of the Modern Olympic Games: Paris.

Our summer shop window tells the thrilling story of athletes gathering for the 33rd Olympiad in the City of Light. The Eiffel Tower is paired with another global icon, the colorful Olympic rings. A champion’s laurel wreath and a tricolor ribbon pay homage to the history-making games of the 2nd modern Olympiad held in Paris in 1900.

Let the Games Begin!
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In the spirit of 14 Juillet, P.O.S.H. invites you to join us RIGHT NOW in our revolutionary, online,
this-weekend-only Bastille Day Flash Sale!💥🇫🇷

Until midnight Sunday July 14th, everything on our website - yes, we said everything* - is 14% off! And to keep things simple, no discount code is needed. Your 14% discount will automatically be applied to your entire cart.

Click on the link in our profile to visit us at www.poshchicago.com and shop our latest collection of treasures!

Vive la France!💙🇫🇷❤️
But remember - the FLASH SALE absolutely ends at midnight (CDT) on Sunday, July 14th!
(*Gift Cards excluded)
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Our beloved Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States.
It was, however, a joint project with the statue itself being built in France, while the US financed and built her massive pedestal on Liberty Island.

The statue’s head and torch-bearing arm were completed before the rest of the statue and were shipped to the United States to help raise funds for the construction of the pedestal.

Here, as part of the fundraising efforts, the arm stood on display in New York City’s Madison Square Park from 1876 to 1882.

Happy 4th of July!🗽🇺🇸💥❤️

The shop will be closed today as we celebrate this star spangled holiday. We are back to regular hours tomorrow, July 5th at 10:00am.
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Welcome July! An Olympic-sized month that sees athletes from around the globe compete once again in the city that is the historic birthplace of the Modern Olympic Games: Paris.

Our summer shop windows tell the thrilling story of athletes gathering for the 33rd Olympiad in the City of Light. The Eiffel Tower is paired with another global icon, the colorful Olympic rings. A champion’s laurel wreath and a tricolor ribbon pay homage to the history-making games of the 2nd modern Olympiad held in Paris in 1900.

Our companion window continues its color theme of bleu, blanc, rouge in a classic Paris café scene with its sheltering tricolor awning. The beloved meeting place for locals and visitors to enjoy a drink as they discuss the latest scores with all eyes are on the Summer 2024 Olympic Games!

Let Summer and the Games BEGIN!💙🤍♥️

A heartfelt merci beaucoup to Kristy for once again creating gold-medal windows that captivate and excite - capturing all the excitement of Summer 2024 in Paris!
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☀️ Summer is officially here…and with our front door open wide, we say “Bienvenue!” “Welcome!”

A boldly striped umbrella shelters our front table capturing the joys of al fresco dining and sunny afternoons devoted only to relaxing in the magical spirit of summertime.

Charming porcelain bowls patterned after antique French franc plates, jacquard tea towels woven in France and a sturdy glass shaker perfect for summertime cocktails…everything you’ll need for a summer celebrated with the relaxed elegance of French style!

Stop by the shop and join us as we joyfully step into summer!
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🇫🇷THIS SUNDAY!🇫🇷 Mondays are for looking at the week ahead and making sure all the notable events are on the calendar…and with that in mind, may we remind you that you’re cordially invited to our:

✨Fabulously French Summer Social✨

Make plans to join us for an afternoon of French fun at the shop on :
Sunday, June 23rd from 3:30 - 5:00

We’re so excited to welcome Jane Bertch, Paris-based author of “The French Ingredient” and founder of everyone’s favorite Paris cooking school, La Cuisine Paris!

As Jane continues the North American leg of her book tour, we’re thrilled to extend a true Chicago welcome. Enjoy a sip of bubbly, a sweet treat and a chance to say Bonjour and chat with Jane. She’ll be happy to sign copies of her brand-new book and with every purchase of “The French Ingredient” comes the chance to win a fabulous prize!
No registration required. Mark your calendar and bring a friend! See you Sunday!💙🤍♥️
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With its roots going all the way back to the Middle Ages in Europe, Father’s Day was first observed in the US on a very small scale in Fairmont, West Virginia in 1908 following a local mining disaster in which 250 fathers lost their lives.

There were many attempts over the years to make it a national holiday, but it wasn’t until 1966 that the third Sunday in June was proclaimed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as an official day to honor fathers.

For actions big and small, through all they do recognized and unrecognized…to all the father figures in our lives, we wish a very Happy Father’s Day!
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“Any man can be a father, but it takes someone very special to be a DAD!”💙

With Dad’s special day fast approaching (Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 16th!) we’ve gathered together a collection of thoughtful finds with dad in mind!

Visit our website to explore the ‘For Dad’ collection of hand-selected favorites chosen especially for the very first best friend in our lives : Dad!

Stop by the shop on State Street to find all these treasures and so many more…perfect gifts that speak to the heart saying thank you for not only being a father, but more importantly being my dad!
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Prepping a collection of US Navy flatware (used during Second World War) for the floor got me curious about life on board a navy ship. This account was pretty fascinating:

“The wardroom was the officers’ mess where we dined, watched movies, socialized, and played games such as cribbage, acey-deucey, and bridge. Musical moments were many. A piano was available in the wardroom for our use and combos from the ship’s band frequently entertained us at dinner. The tables were set with white linen tablecloths and napkins in engraved or numbered silver napkin rings, silver flatware, Navy blue and white china, and silver candlesticks. Even silver finger bowls were used when we were served messy finger food. We were Old World formal!

The stewards in white starched aprons brought the food on silver trays to each of us, serving from the left and allowing us to take what we wanted. Nothing was placed on the table to be passed. Coffee and tea were brought to us and served from silver servers.

After the meals, the tables were cleared and the tablecloths replaced with green felt table covers. The officers were then free to play at the preferred games until movie time. Movies were shown each evening and on Sunday afternoon from 35mm projectors from the starboard side of the wardroom. The movie screen was a sheet hung from the beam in the center of the overhead (ceiling). The projection could be seen on both sides of the sheet. The junior officers had to sit behind the screen and watch the movies backwards. It was interesting to see a baseball game from the backside of the screen and watch the batter hit the ball and run for third base. Whenever a letter came up on the screen crucial to the plot, we yelled out “Read it please, Sirs.” Rank had its privileges.”

(Account by Lieutenant (jg) Tracy Wilder, F Division Officer, from the site of the Battle Ship North Carolina. Photo from a wardroom of the period.)

A limited quantity of WWII-era US Navy Silverware available in the shop or online!⚓️

A huge thank you to for polishing all the flatware and sharing this historical account of US Navy Officer life!

🇫🇷SUMMER SOCIAL!🇫🇷 It’s a well-known fact that TIME flies FASTER in the summer…and our
✨Fabulously French Summer Social✨
…is only 2 weeks from today!
Make plans to join us for an afternoon of French fun at the shop on :
Sunday, June 23rd from 3:30 - 5:00
We’re thrilled to welcome the amazing Jane Bertch, Paris-based author of “The French Ingredient” and founder of the beloved Paris cooking school, La Cuisine Paris!
Enjoy a sip of bubbly, a sweet treat and a chance to say Bonjour and chat with Jane! She’ll be signing copies of her brand-new book PLUS every purchase of “The French Ingredient” on that day comes with the chance to win a fabulous surprise…goodies direct from Paris, a POSH Gift Card, French pantry treats and so much more!
No registration required! Mark your calendars and bring a friend!💙🤍♥️
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🇫🇷SUMMER SOCIAL!🇫🇷 Mondays are for making plans and on the first Monday of this new month, we’re thrilled to announce our upcoming :
✨Fabulously French Summer Social✨
Make plans to join us for an afternoon of French fun at the shop on :
Sunday, June 23rd from 3:30 - 5:00
We’re excited to welcome Jane Bertch, Paris-based author of “The French Ingredient” and founder of the famed Paris cooking school, La Cuisine Paris!
Enjoy a sip of bubbly, a sweet treat and a chance to say Bonjour and chat with Jane! She’ll be happy to sign copies of her brand-new book and every purchase of “The French Ingredient” comes with the chance to win a fabulous surprise!
No registration required! Mark your calendars and bring a friend!💙🤍♥️
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June is here inviting us to live our best, most colorful lives!🌈💓
This magical month takes us from spring to summer and inspires us to dream in full color…to imagine a world where flowers touch the sky, where every color of the rainbow is celebrated and where LOVE leads the way.

Stop by the shop soon to share in the wondrous joys of the sweet month of June!
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Every year at the end of May, our nation pauses to remember her fallen heroes. More than just a long weekend, or a day for a picnic or a parade, Decoration Day, as it was originally called, was decreed in 1868 for the “purpose of strewing with flowers or, otherwise decorating the graves of fallen comrades who died in defense of their country”.

On this Memorial Day Monday, may we pause and listen closely to hear our nation’s anthem sung by the silence of her fallen heroes.🇺🇸
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(📷: via Getty Images)

“It started with a delightfully one-off egg cup from a coronation in 1937, but what are soft boiled eggs without salt, or toast, or the correct way to measure loose tea to make a brew?

Making a late breakfast on a morning off is one of my favorite rituals. Helping a customer assemble the accessories of a perfect breakfast for a loved one was a fun highlight of the week at the shop.”

definitely knows how to start the morning on the right foot! Thank you for sharing your late, leisurely breakfast ritual and passing the love of a properly served breakfast on to all of us! Did someone say “breakfast in bed”!?🤩

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What began as an American holiday in 1914, Mother’s Day became a true global export that is now celebrated in over 40 countries around the world.
With love and best wishes to mothers everywhere! 💝
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(A mother duck and her brood are very much at home along the River Seine in Paris. 📷: via the readingmytealeaves.com blog)

In France, the first of May is known as la Fête du Muguet!

It’s a special day for giving out sprigs of lily-of-the-valley to those you love as a token of happiness and good luck. It’s also a day when anyone is allowed to sell these flowers on the street. For this day only, no license is required and the earnings from selling these flowers are tax free.

The flowers must have been picked in the wild or from a garden (preferably from your own, of course 😉).
Porte Bonheur! (Lucky Charm!)

📷: by Izis Bidermanas “Premier Mai” Paris c. 1958.
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CALLING ALL TEA LOVERS!!!📣😁
Our spring shipment of Mariage Frères teas has just arrived from Paris!

Opening each neatly packed case of tea filled the shop with the most incredible fragrance and was a preview of all the delicious tea varieties that have made Mariage Frères the most beloved tea around the world.

Visit us today, either online, or better yet, in our shop on State Street to discover a new favorite and restock your teas for the season ahead!
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If it were up to us, Mother’s Day would be celebrated every day of the year, and yet, as is tradition, we celebrate motherhood on just one Sunday each spring.

As that very special day is drawing near, (May 12th is just around the corner!) we would like to present a few of our most favorite finds lovingly hand-picked with mom in mind. Tap the Mother’s Day Gift Guide link in our bio and peruse our collection today!💝
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“The earth laughs in flowers.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every year on April 22, Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.

Happy Earth Day!🌸🌎💚
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“It’s a joy to walk in to a beautiful tableau every morning - thanks to for her tremendous creativity and merchandising skills and .heat for buying all the best things and keeping all the wheels in motion plus the whole team for all the hard work put in every day to find unique products and create a joyful place and experience.
Happy Sunday! 💐”

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“Blue simply *can’t* be sad when it’s blue-and-white… (and a giant cow is as good a village guardian as anything else, right?)”

Thank you to for always making gray skies blue!💙
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📚BOOK ALERT!!!📚 We’re thrilled to announce that our dear friend Jane’s brand new book, The French Ingredient has just been released and is available now at the shop and soon on our website!

To know Jane is to love her and love her we do!
The life and business she has created in Paris is an inspiration and an encouragement for all of us to follow our dreams. Her memoir is a fascinating glimpse into what happens when a girl from Chicago has the crazy/brilliant idea to build a life and start a cooking school in the city that has always welcomed dreamers.💖

Photos 3 & 4 were taken on our recent buying trip to Paris…and no trip to Paris is complete without stopping by the La Cuisine Paris cooking school to say “Bonjour!” to Jane!
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If ever there was a day that called for a cup (several cups?) of tea, it’s today on this snowy, sleety mess of a spring day. (Winter and spring are clearly still in disagreement over who is calling the shots!)

Thank you to for bringing his skilled TLC to this gorgeous Antique French Tea Caddy and making it ready to once again hold your favorite loose tea exactly for days like this.

“This antique French tea caddy came in recently from Paris: It was wearing some of its honestly acquired rough-and-tumbles on its face. The various grains of its veneers were disagreeing on what direction to shrink the *teensiest* bit over time and needed securing. (When veneers have a disagreement they are very civilized: They just begin to silently arch their backs and retreat from one another until they flake away & disappear.) The thing needed a gentle sorting out.

(The tag on the tiny key was probably my favorite detail.)”

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“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.”
~ Christopher Morley (1931)

Welcome April...that messy, magical month of cloud bursts and puddle jumps, of lilac buds and nodding daffodils.☔️💛🌱

📷: Carmen Dell’Orefice wearing Pierre Cardin, Paris 1957. Photo by Richard Avedon.
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We’ll be the first to admit that our beloved Easter Bunny tradition is kind of hard to believe: a bunny? travels around the world? hiding colored eggs and baskets of candy? for the children to discover on Easter morning?!?

Well, as it turns out, we’re not the only ones with strange, far-fetched Easter traditions!

In France it’s not a bunny, but “cloches volantes”, or flying bells, that leave the chocolates, candies and decorated eggs for children.

Flying Bells?!? The story goes that on Good Friday the church bells go silent, grow wings and fly to Rome to visit the Pope. (Ummm...sure, why not?!?)

After the little Italian getaway, the bells fly back to France filled with goodies to drop across the countryside as they return to their steeples just in time to ring out on Easter Sunday morning.

Bunny vs. Bells. Both traditions involve chocolate, so we’re in no matter what...but which one seems more believable: an Easter bunny? Or Bells that fly?

Happy Easter! Joyeuses Pâques!
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(📷: Vintage French Easter Postcard via Pinterest)
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The cheerful colors of Easter and spring…pastel shades gently herald the season and welcome the holiday weekend ahead.🐣💖
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Mondays are for making plans…and we’re absolutely thrilled to announce an ✨UPCOMING EVENT✨:

Join us on April 11th as we welcome our dear friend, author Jane Bertch of to the Book Stall in Winnetka for an evening of delicious conversation as she launches her new book, The French Ingredient.

Jane is the founder of the beloved English speaking cooking school located in the heart of Paris and after 15 years does she have stories to tell!

Make plans to join us on April 11th as we dish on everything…from building a successful business, to navigating the language, culture and challenges of being an American living in Paris! All will be revealed!😁

Space is limited, so register today through the link above! We’re so looking forward to seeing you on April 11th!
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Perhaps like many of us, you were introduced at a young age to an adorable Francophile elephant in a bright green suit named Babar.

Babar the Elephant series of children’s books was created in 1931 by French artist Jean de Brunhoff. The beloved children’s classic began as a bedtime story that Jean’s wife Cécile told her young sons, Laurent and Mathieu.

They loved the story about the little elephant so much that they asked their father to draw pictures for them of the elephant world their mother had described. He did and eventually created a book, Histore de Babar: le petit éléphant (The Story of Babar).

Jean’s son Laurent de Brunhoff vowed to take up the Babar mantle at the age of 21, after the death of his father. He had inherited his father’s artistic gift, trained at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and began living as an artist in Montparnasse. But, wishing to maintain his tie to his father and the imaginative world of his childhood, he turned back to the character his father had drawn and taught himself to draw in his father’s style.

He went on to publish over forty-five more Babar books and would see Babar grow to become a global phenomenon. There are now over 30,000 Babar publications in over 17 languages, and over 8 million books have been sold.

Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator, passed away on March 22, 2024 at the age of 98.

Thank you, Laurent. You will be greatly missed by children of all ages around the world.
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