Girard Avenue taking on French flair
By Kathy Day
Mar 11, 2010

A high-style furniture and accessories store named after two French antique dealers named Peter is coming to a block in the Village that already has a decidedly European flair.

Pierre Deux will bring its signature "All that is French Country" designs to La Jolla with a soft opening expected by late May or early June in the space formerly occupied by Ark Antiques and Pied a Terre, at 7643-45 Girard Ave., marketing director Naomi Cooper said in a phone interview recently.

The new shop will be next door to La Maisonette, owned by Portia and Jean Marque, and that's next to Roche-Bobois, the French-based contemporary furnishings store.

Pierre Deux's La Jolla store will be the 24th store and the fourth on the West Coast, joining those in San Francisco, Carmel and the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. The building, currently awaiting the OK from the city to begin work on exterior changes, is already gutted and being readied for its new tenant, said Bud Fisher of Trilogy Real Estate Management, which owns the 11,000-square-foot building.

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