FrancFranc Village

Monocle Issue #34 is out and I spot an advertorial on the opening of a new FrancFranc shop opening in Aoyama-Dori today. FrancFranc is one of best places to go in Tokyo to source for lovely contemporary items for the home. In fact, it holds a special place in my heart as that was where the husband and I first set our eyes on the Amadana toaster and we had to haul it back from Tokyo even though buying a transformer was necessary.



Part retro, part modern it has a wooden walnut handle and a dial at the side to control the timing. We eventually got it from the Amadana shop in Ginza and got to look at the other products of the brand.




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Back to FrancFranc. The great thing about this new store that differentiates it from the other FrancFranc outlets that pepper the country is that it reads as a collection of shops, service and social spaces like cafes promoting art and lifestyle, housed under a warehouse-inspired building. Big plus: The Monocle Shop opens its third shop here.