These people are dishonest and their merchandise is flawed. I purchased an expensive wine bottle…read morestopper and was told it was solid and would not break. It broke the first day I returned from my overseas trip.

On a recent trip to Paris I bought a pair of parrot candlestick holders from Florent Monestier for…read more395 euro and when I returned to Milan realized a piece was broken on the branch in the parrot's mouth. This did not happen in transit as they were packaged very well and the piece was nowhere to be found. They were chipped prior to my purchase and I think the woman in the store knowingly sold them to me (American student living in Italy). I had intended to buy the pair which was on display in the window, but the woman working in the store switched them to some she had downstairs and obviously did not check their condition or knowingly sold me a broken piece. This was a very expensive purchase and I wanted the pair which was in the window and I thought this was an antique store, but it turned out the parrots were made in China and I'm very disappointed. I thought they were a French antique and to see a Made in China sticker came as quite a surprise for the exorbitant prices charged at Florent Monestier!! They have some lovely pieces, but they are overpriced and, moreover, they are not antiques.