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Over a 22-year period, Larry lived in New York, Miami and Santa Fe. He obtained a degree in gemology from the GIA in New York and worked in the fine jewelry business. He moved to Paris in 1999 and earned a second MBA in luxury brand management.

Within a year, he had produced his own collection of platinum jewelry and created a website called ParisOriginals.com to specialize in original works from the Art Deco period. Soon after, he developed a site called Fineart4ment.com to focus on academic drawings and prints of the 16th to late 19th century.

With the success of this venture he extended the concept to exquisite shopping and travel opportunities with MansTouch.com, offering contemporary art and lifestyle products for men with a taste for the unique and unexpected.

Last year Larry expanded his concept in France and set up a distribution company in Paris called Maletribe.com which sells American and British men's skin care brands to Sephora, Printemps and other French department stores.

Larry is also an accomplished pianist, ballroom dancer and bridge player.

He is married to Debra Healy, a noted jewelry historian and designer, who is the author of "American Jewelry: Glamour and Tradition" and "Hollywood Jewels."

PARIS … IN DEPTH WITH LARRY DAVIS

Art & Antiques at the weekend markets

Day 1. Collectors Day at the weekend markets.

We'll start by making the rounds of the auction houses, where we'll view the various rooms full of antiques for the upcoming sales that day. French auctions are unique in the world: you bid until the auctioneer's candle goes out. I'll explain how it works.

Lunch along the rue de Rivoli, close to the Louvre des Antiquaires. This is a square block of fine antique specialty shops with high quality merchandise. Just the place for Louis XV furniture, tapestries, French and Chinese Porcelain, model ships, tin soldiers and knowledgeable dealers.

Then, in St Germain des Prés, we'll visit some of the top specialist antique stores on the left Bank. Afternoon coffee or tea at Les Deux Magots or the Café Flore.

Over dinner tonight, a discussion of Paris Style in the 20s and 30s.

Day 2

We'll start at Vanves, one of the best flea markets in Paris, with dealers set up on the sidewalks. A fun place to visit early Saturday morning for unique finds and an abundance of objects and curios in various states.

We can have lunch at one of the charming bistros in this bustling neighborhood.

The Marché aux Puces is an enormous weekend market organized into 10 sub-markets, each with its own character. It consists of arcades of semi-permanent shops as well as stands selling antique furniture, art, decorative pieces, architectural elements, military, porcelain, military clothing, jewelry - and more. Antiquers routinely come away with amazing finds. If you have special interests, we'll follow them.

And if the local jazz club is open, we'll end our antiquing with a beer. Otherwise, we'll just have to have that beer at an "ordinary" Parisian café.

Over dinner in the evening, we'll continue talking about art.

"What more can you ask for? Highly recommended."

— David Adams, Montreal

"It was great meeting you! The insights into Paris that you provided

—no matter what your lifestyle—were amazing!"

— Mr.& Mrs. O'Bannion, Laguna Beach, Calif.

"I thought I knew Paris. I didn't. On the other hand, you do. You really, really do."

— Frank Catalano, San Francisco.