Our favourite things
Giant funfair in Paris – La Foire du Trône – from 3rd April – 31st May 2010
A Parisian experience, Our favourite things
No need to travel nearly an hour to Disneyland when you’ve got 350 attractions on your doorstep…
Photos: JasonW
Rooms With a View, an photo exhibition by Tatiana Margaux Bonhomme at the LM Gallery from 19th March – 25th April 2010
Our favourite things, Photography
I can barely remember what I was doing last week, but those of you with more athletic minds may remember that Tatiana did the very first special commission for our photo project and exhibition in 2007. With her new exhibition she shows that photos that initially convinced us that she would be very much at ease with photographing hotels…
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The Albert Kahn museum celebrates the 150th anniversay of his birth
A Parisian experience, Our favourite things
Tons of events and a spiffing new website with light boxes on a dark background (hmmm…). One of our favourite places in Paris gets a youthful reboot by looking 150 years into the past. Here are the details…
The Albert Kahn gardens - photo: JasonW
Living Colors, a fresh new shopping fair at the Cartonnerie, 27th & 28th March 2010
In a space that’s rare in Paris (kind of like a giant log cabin), 25 designers, artists and go-getters are preparing a weekend to wash that grey right out of your face…
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Exhibition & signing by Patrick Tourneboeuf at the Librairie de la Galerie 12th March 2010
Our favourite things, Photography
The photographer looking after after special commission for this year’s edition of our photo project and showing some of his photos – and signing them! – in Paris this month…
We have a link with the Oscars®. Sort of.
And it involves food.
Our link with the Oscars®? No, Angelina and Brad don’t stay with us, yet (perhaps they will at the HBJ 2010?), but we are rooting for French film A Prophet by Jacques Audiard. It’s just won 9 (more) awards here, and is France’s official entry for the Oscars®.
And why are we telling you this? Because the film’s co-produced by Why Not Productions, who not only look after the Cinéma du Panthéon just around the corner from us, but also run the Salon du Panthéon on the top floor, one of our very favourite places for lunch…
The château de Malmaison –
Josephine Bonaparte’s lush manor
A Parisian experience, Our favourite things
The most famous château near Paris will always be Versailles, but it’s hardly the only château we have to offer. There’s the château de Monte-Christo – the dashing-sounding home of Alexandre Dumas – in Pont-Marly, 17km from Paris (that we would love to go and see to), but this month we chose the château de Malmaison which is less than 10km from the city limits and simple to get with public transport.
So forget the city of get ready to bathe in the rich luxurious fabrics and decoration of the place. It’s packed solid with Empire-style furnishings, thanks to the keen eye of a young lady called Josephine…
photos: JasonW
Tintin auction in Paris, 29th May 2010
Hergé’s Tintin is still prized by collectors, nearly 30 years after the author’s death. Are you one of them? If so, get your credit card warmed up and ready to go…
photo by * hiro008 used under cc licence
What was the Hôtel Design Sorbonne like
before it was ‘design’?
We recently came across an old brochure for the hotel, which came as quite a shock: not only was the layout of the brochure itself pretty hideous, but the hotel is unrecognisable. It made us think how much has changed in so little time (even if the brochure does date from before the time the hotel belonged to us). Come step back in time with us and see for yourself…
Old brochure for the Hôtel de la Sorbonne
Something for this weekend – orchid exhibition at the Senate’s orangery in the Luxembourg Gardens
Get out of the cold, and celebrate Valentine’s Day in an original way with this exhibition celebrating 150 years of a unique collection.
photo by Attracted2light used under cc licence
