Ze cocktail hour

In Paris, dressing up never went out of style.

Dress-ing up: July sales

Summer soirées are here and so are the July soldes, with bargains to be found until August 4.
 

Above: a small dress shop in the Haut Marais

What heat?

As Paris temperatures soar icy cocktails are de rigueur come evening.

Medici Fountain #2: Green-eyed monster

 

The one-eyed hulk Polyphemus, who's been stalking the nymph Galatea, sneaks up to find her in the arms of Acis, her lover, and flies into a rage.

 

 

Medici Fountain

 

The "green-eyed monster" looms over two young lovers, consumed by jealousy.

 

Above: the Fontaine Médicis is a magical oasis in the Jardin du Luxembourg crowned by an enormous sculpture often mistaken for Poseidon, but it's Poseidon's son Polyphemus, the Cyclops from Greek mythology

Crayon art

Almost every surface inside this rue des Beaux-Arts gallery including the front door is covered in scribblings.

 

At the reception: helium balloons, homemade lemonade, cookies - for the grown-ups

Pain Poilâne

The wood-fired brick ovens at Poilâne's small original Left Bank boulangerie work round the clock turning out thousands of signature rustic loaves daily.