Window Wednesday

 

  

This stylish coffee shop housed at the entrance of the Galerie Richer, a former passage, is a standout with its soaring black wrought-iron glass portal, elegant old-world interior and high-quality, ethically sourced Arabica beans, roasted in-house at their Saint-Ouen atelier.

 

NOIR

33 rue Richer 75009

 

Window Wednesday

A window decorated with stuffed animals and a photograph of New York buildings.

 

Theater Thursday

Inside a favorite small film theater in Paris.

Studio 28

10 rue Tholozé  75018

 

 

Horse sense

A life-sized sculpture of a horse as a lamp base.

Giacometti, prolonged

Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman, printmaker, lived/worked mostly in Paris.

Musée Maillol

"Giacometti: From Tradition to Avant-Garde"

 

Ends February 3 , 2019

 

Below: coffee downstairs in museum's art deco Café des Frères Prévert

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Day trip: La Piscine #2

Along with a small group of French journalists I recently had the unique experience of a behind-the-scenes exclusive look at the ongoing expansion work of La Piscine Museum, site of a former municipal swimming pool in an Art Deco building on the outskirts of Lille.

Above: artisans at work reminiscent of Caillebotte's Les Raboteurs at the Orsay Museum


Below: boxes of artworks yet to be unpacked; display bases for sculptures; 19th and 20th-century art fills back-room ateliers during construction works

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La Piscine Museum
23 rue de l'Espérance 59100 Roubaix
 Scheduled re-opening date: October 20, 2018


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Day trip: Lille

[The museum restaurant / café is managed by Méert of Lille, famous luxury chocolate and pastry makers] 

Day trip: La Piscine #1

A ten-minute train ride from the city of Lille (2 hours from Paris), La Piscine - an early 20th century municipal swimming pool transformed into an astonishing art exhibition space - expands and readies for re-opening this October.

La Piscine Museum
23 rue de l'Espérance 59100 Roubaix

Monday: behind-the-scenes

Marquise

A large marquise dominates the entry to a hotel on Boulevard de la Madeleine.

More Fornasetti

With the Fornasetti retrospective winding up in less than a week I couldn't resist posting two more of my favorite photographs from this don't-miss exhibition.

Fornasetti fix

The Face equated with Piero Fornasetti that launched 16,000 designs is in excellent company with many more of his mind-boggling pieces. Musée des Arts Décoratifs til June 14.

 

 

Une carafe d'eau

A cluster of green bottles ready to be turned into carafes d'eau.