Yesterday my Italian friend & I went for "fika" at the Swedish Institute in Paris. Fika means having a coffee break with pastries and as one of my Danish readers pointed out, fika is only used in Sweden ( and not in Denmark ). I was looking forward to a delicious kanelbulle, but no luck: Read article…
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Merci Paris
Merci is one of those Parisian hotspots that doesn’t need an introduction anymore, does it? The best thing about concept store Merci, besides their interesting selection of products, is the space itself: it’s huge & spacious. Every time I visit it looks completely different and last week a giant palm tree welcomed us. What more Read article…
La Galerie Végétale
One of my alltime favorite boutiques in Paris is definitely La Galerie Végétale. I'm a sucker for succulents and wandering around this former carpentry workplace makes me really happy. In this lush green shop you find a unique selection of succulents & cacti, a large diversity of planters ( in reclaimed rubber, ceramics, plastics, zinc, Read article…
Happy Bastille Day!
Some urban colors
Some urban colors to pimp up this grey & cold friday. Above: a two-headed fish in the making near the Canal Saint Martin, Paris. Some poetry in Beauvais (Oise, France) by Ray Charles: Je suis aveugle mais construire plus malheureux que soi… j'aurai pu être noir. Aloha my name is… lots of stickers outside Album Read article…
Weekend tip: Le Bourget
You've climbed the Eiffel tower, visited le Palais de Tokyo, shopped at Merci, ate dozens of LaDurée (or Pierre Hermé) macarons and you just love Paris. But you like to do something else for a change? One of my favorite museums is "La Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace" at Le Bourget, just outside Paris. Read article…
LV & MJ at Les Arts Décoratifs
Only a few weeks after visiting the Jean Paul Goude exhibition, today I was back at Les Arts Décoratifs to see the Louis Vuitton x Marc Jacobs exhibition. Not that I'm very fond of either of them, but after the live broadcasted opening last night I was quite curious to see what all the buzz Read article…
Soooo Goude!
Enfin! Finally I went to see the huge Jean Paul Goude Retrospective: Goudemalion at Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris. It closes in a few weeks and was still loaded with visitors. It showed an impressive amount of beautifully mounted photos, lots of famous images and some new ones. The only thing missing in my opinion Read article…
So Far, So Goude
Before settling in France in 2002, I never heard of Jean Paul Goude. However I was familiar with his work. It is pretty impossible to take a Parisian metro without meeting up with Goude en route. Or to think of Grace Jones without remembering his graphic & avant-garde imagery of this goddess of disco. And Read article…
Monumental
I missed out on the huge exhibition by Anish Kapoor for Monumenta 2011 in the Grand Palais in Paris. The photos featuring the exhibition are amazing; the color of the 4-armed balloon goes so perfectly well with the green construction of the Grand Palais. And the inside is just spectacular. I got more familiar Read article…
