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PHPA and Art Paris at the Grand Palais – while preparations continue, we visit some of the building’s secret areas
A Parisian experience, Art Paris Art Fair GB, Our favourite things, Paris architecture
Our stand is coming along well, so during a break we decided to go off exploring. The secret staircase was just the beginning…
photos: JasonW
PHPA gets ready for Art Paris 2012
Art and Culture, Art Paris Art Fair GB, Our favourite things, Photography
It’s a stimulating, industrious week for us this week, with the launch of a whole new site for our photo project PHPA (also known in English as « A hotel photo, an artist’s view ») and our stall at Art Paris at the Grand Palais, with Esther Woerdehoff.
We spent all day Sunday getting things ready at the Grand Palais. It’s going to be something out of the ordinary!
Photos : JasonW
Garden festival ‘Jardins Jardin’ in the Tuileries gardens from 1st -3rd June 2012
A mini garden festival with a designer touch, in one of Paris’ most historic gardens right in the centre of town!
photo : JasonW
The new shopping centre inside Gare Saint Lazare
Marking the end of ten years of building work, the lobby of Gare Saint Lazare, which used to be grey and depressing, has now become… a three-floor shopping centre, promising a brave new world to travellers via 80 boutiques.
The public rail company SNCF inaugurated the place yesterday with a giant party (i.e. free sweets and popcorn). We went down there to experience the full misery. Perhaps you’d like to see our photos?…
photos (except where marked): JasonW (lire la suite / continue reading)
Laptop, a Parisian coworking space
for independent (but sociable) creative types!
After a stint working in San Francisco, Pauline Thomas, on of the photographers who has taken part in our PHPA photo project – and who is also an freelance UX designer - had a revelation.
Working alone, from home, and with quite a few freelancers in the same situation, why not create a space where creative types can come together and work by themselves, but together, but by themselves, if you see what we mean? Laptop is that place, and the idea is so great, and so new for Paris, that we’re wondering why it hasn’t been thought of before.
Here’s our visit to an office of the non-boring kind…
photos: JasonW
(beautiful) Gare du Nord, Paris
A Parisian experience, Our favourite things
The blog has gone of to Brussels for the day in search of -would you believe it – plates!
Yep, the flea market in Brussels is an excellent source of fine crockery that we can turn into cake stands for the afternoon tea served at La Belle Juliette.
Our departure by Thalys was a great excuse to show you Gare du Nord and its amazing façade, freshly-sandblasted (yet again). In the morning sun it really shines, reminding one of a time when taking a train was the start of an exotic adventure…
(photos: JasonW) (lire la suite / continue reading)
A Hotel Photo, An Artist’s View at the Art Paris Art Fair
at the Grand Palais from 29th March – 1st April 2012
Art and Culture, Our favourite things, Photography
With la Galerie Esther Woerdehoff and Elene Usdin, we’ve been working on a great project for the 2012 Art Paris Art Fair: AntiChamber with viewS, a new installation where you can spy on some ladies in their rooms!
It’s all for the sake of art of course. Full explanation this way…
(lire la suite / continue reading)
Circulation(s) Festival at the Parc de Bagatelle
from 25th February – 25th March 2012
Art and Culture, Our favourite things, Photography
Our friends from Fetart have done it again. After the (let’s admit it, slightly surprising) mega-success of the first edition of their Circulation(s) festival last year, they are back with a great selection of young, European photographers in a venue that you shouldn’t miss.
photo: Kourtney Roy
Alain Bisotti on www.photographie.com
Our favourite things, Photography
The man who started our photo project Photo d’Hôtel, Photo d’Auteur (also known as PHPA – or in English, A Hotel Photo, An Artist’s view) tells French photo website www.photographie.com exactly what’s rockin’ his boat at the moment…
photo: JasonW
Steve McCurry exhibition at La Belle Juliette
from 9th – 20th February 2012 and
signing session Saturday 11th February from 7pm
Art and Culture, Our favourite things, Photography
Steve McCurry‘s photos are seen in some of the world’s finest publications. To celebrate the 2012 edition of In Love With Magnum 2012, the photographer will be holding an exhibition in the salons of La Belle Juliette, and you can even come down and meet him in person…
photo : Steve McCurry / Magnum Photos
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