Mystery Monday

Keeping an eye on Paris Design Week.

October newsletter: 

A peek into some of Montmartre's hidden interiors

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Sunday spark

 It's Paris Design Week / Maison&Object 2026

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Paris is pulsing with creativity today as Maison&Objet Pulse* fills the halls at Villepinte and Paris Design Week spills across the city’s most inspiring neighborhoods - from Marais galleries and Bastille installations to Saint-Germain showrooms and the Grand Palais’s floral spectacle. It features what’s new and next in design, emerging talents and young brands, bold, sensitive, and sustainable creativity, a dynamic, forward-looking energy focusing on seven immersive sectors: Decor & Design, Cook & Share, Fine Craft, Fashion & Accessories, Gift & Play, Fragrance & Ambiance, Wellness & Beauty.

On this sunny September Sunday, the capital feels like one big open studio, where emerging talents, craft traditions, and bold new interiors invite wandering, discovery, and feeling the energy of design in motion.  - BPJ

 Official Website 

 

* Maison&Objet Pulse is the official name of the September edition of the famous Maison&Objet trade fair in Paris that takes place 10 - 14 September 2026 at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre and is themed, “Pulse in Motion” 

 

Sitting pretty

 

 

Innovative interiors, cutting edge furniture, decorative arts.... Meet the designers.

 

Paris Is My Living Room Dept.

 

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Paris Design Week 2026 

Ends Monday January 19, 2026 

 

IN THE CITY / MAISON&OBJET 

A door adorned

 

The Art Nouveau door on Avenue Rapp.

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  The Art Nouveau movement, characterized by flowing lines, natural motifs, and innovative materials like iron, glass, and ceramics, left its mark on various buildings across Paris. This door, a prime example at 29 Avenue Rapp, designed by Jules Lavirotte in 1901, is a top contender for the most beautiful door in Paris.

When the door first appeared, it caused a stir for its intricate carvings, lavish sculptural ornamentation such as Adam and Eve and the door's rumored naughty overtones, which only added to its allure. 

Despite soaring popularity, the movement began to fade around the early 1910s, its decline often linked to the onset of World War I in 1914. By then, the style’s exuberant, ornate designs began to give way to the more geometric and streamlined forms of Art Deco which better suited the post-war desire for modernity and simplicity.

Today there are Art Nouveau touches all over the city if one but keeps their eyes open. Probably the best-known and most-spotted are Hector Guimard's whimsical metro station entrances. - BPJ

 

Window Wednesday

 

 

Step into the wild on a backstreet in the Sentier district.

 

Design & Nature

4 rue d'Aboukir 75002

 

Maison&Objet Monday

Last chance to catch the creativity and beauty that is Paris Design Week.

 Full program 2025:

MAISON&OBJET

 

Ends Monday January 20

  

 

Window Wednesday

 Brightly painted panes of glass cheer a gloomy sky near the Bastille.

Floral Friday

 

A new café-restaurant has taken over Le Refuge in Montmartre.

Rita

72 rue Lamarck 75018

 

Paris Design Week

 

Once again cutting edge international designers have descended on Paris for an exciting week of graphic design, furniture, decorative arts, innovative interiors.

 Paris Is My Living Room Dept.

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Paris Design Week 2023

Ends Monday January 23  

Wednesday whimsy

 

Love this small deco shop on a Montmartre side street.

Creative design, custom interior paints, papier peints, more. By Penelope.

Farrow & Ball

7 rue Francoeur 75018

 

Floral Friday

 

A bouquet against a backdrop of floral wallpaper in a design shop window.

 

Hello dolly

An antique doll in a storefront window in the Marais district.

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Tonight and every Wednesday:

Live music starting at 7 p.m.
Le Grand Comptoir d'Anvers
2 Place d'Anvers 75009

High-end antiques

Rare and distinctive antiques are a hallmark of the rue des Saints-Pères.

Day trip: At home with Monet #2

Interior of Impressionist icon Claude Monet's Giverny home with partial view of gardens from a window.

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Un Jour avec Claude Monet à Giverny by Adrien Goetz (Flammarion)

 

Stepping up

Elegant stairway inside the Hôtel Ritz, Place Vendôme.

Peninsula pastries

A playful array of sweets and pastries are set out at the Peninsula Hotel

 

Below: lobby

 

 

 

Touch of fall

Branches of autumn leaves decorate a window on a street behind Le Bon Marché.

Blue gorilla

A life-sized papier-mâché gorilla in a shop of curiosities.

Graffiti deco

A cold beer on a warm June evening with graffiti as a backdrop.

Book bags

Books decorate a boutique selling leather bags with chain straps.