Description
Parisians will tell you, with perfectly straight faces, that on the night of the thirty-first the spiders of the city hold their annual gathering at the top of the Eiffel Tower. They climb all evening, thousands of them, skittering up the girders while the tourists ride the lifts unaware. By midnight the tower is draped from base to summit, and if you look up at exactly the right moment, the lights sparkle through a lace of fine silk.
This box is shaped as the Eiffel Tower decorated with spiders for Halloween, a playful mash-up of Paris landmark and autumn fright. It belongs with a Francophile, a traveller who has climbed the real tower, or a collector of Eiffel Tower pieces who wants something unexpected. Stand it on a shelf near a Paris guidebook, or let it rise above a Halloween mantel display. It is the rare souvenir that manages to be both chic and silly at once, a trick only Paris could pull off.
Piece details
- Shaped as the Eiffel Tower
- Spider details crawl over the structure
- A Paris landmark given a Halloween twist
- Iron lattice and spindly visitors hand-decorated by a painter in Limoges
- The hinged lid hides a nook big enough for a Paris metro ticket, folded
Gift it to the friend who honeymooned in Paris and decorates for Halloween with unashamed enthusiasm.
