Flights of Fancy

It’s about romance, a plane and most important of all, all that jazz at Aerobleu, a fictional Paris club, currently getting the red-carpet merchandising treatment. Christened “Aerobleu, the Spirit of Cool,” the collection of goods including books by jazz historian Gene Lees and novelist Alston Chase, posters, stationery, frames, clocks, ties, scarves, furniture, dinnerware and glassware--the works--is playing in Bloomingdale’s, Z Gallerie, Barnes & Noble and Tower Books & Records. Created by Brooks Branch, Linda Berman and Henry Vizcarra, the Aerobleu story and items are based on the imaginary comings and goings of Max Morgan, the club’s owner and an eccentric pilot known for taking his patrons on flights of fancy to wherever: New York, London, New Orleans. Next up for the line is a CD. In the works is “Aerobleu,” the movie, natch.