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Restaurants are adding tiny seats for big luxury handbags

Restaurants are adding tiny seats for big luxury handbags

Purse stools are becoming an increasingly familiar sight in high-end dining rooms, despite being mocked in hit TV shows about the wealthy.

In the opening episode of Season Two of And Just Like That …, there’s a scene stealer, and it’s not a dress or a celebrity: it’s a purse stool.

“Oh, thank you, my bag was exhausted,” says Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie, setting her Chanel purse down on the little white stool that’s pulled up to the fancy restaurant table. The miniature seats also add comic relief in Emily in Paris: the show’s star mistakenly sits on the little stand meant for her handbag at a Provence dining spot, revealing her naivety.

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