Entries by Hélène

Olivier Gagnère

Il a grandi à Saint-Germain des prés, tout près de la rue de Beaune où son père fut l’un des premiers antiquaires dans un quartier qui maintenant leur est dédié. Autodidacte, Olivier Gagnère est pourtant devenu l’un des plus grands designers français, se réclamant de la longue tradition des arts décoratifs en perpétuant ce style […]

Van Gogh in Auvers sur Oise

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris is devoting its back-to-school exhibition to works produced by the artist during the last two months of his life, spent in Auvers-sur-Oise (Val-d’Oise). Organized by the Public Establishment of the Orsay and Orangerie Museums in Paris and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, “Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise. The Last Months” is the […]

Galerie ROMAIN MORANDI

Romain Morandi is an art historian and in his gallery it is a transversal look at the history of decorative arts and design of the 20th century that he defends by presenting artists as different as Ettore Sottsass, George Nakashima, Josef Hoffmann, Pierre Charpin, Dan Friedman, Elizabeth de Portzamparc, Gustav Stickley, Nestor Perkal, Josef Hoffmann, […]

MAISON GAINSBOURG

On the wall, a photograph of a Milanese cabbage, a sort of artifact that pays homage to Claude Lalanne’s L’Homme à la tête de chou, which inspired Serge Gainsbourg in 1976 for the title of his eponymous album. This sculpture which was always a bit of his double and which can be found in the […]

Josef Hoffmann / Ettore Sottsass

Sécessions By exhibiting around forty exceptional pieces by Josef Hoffmann and Ettore Sottsass, Romain Morandi has chosen to confront two major figures in the history of architecture and design. While Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) is considered one of the fathers of the modern movement, Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) was one of the first to question its foundations. […]

Gertrude Stein et Pablo Picasso

A major exhibition on the story of an extraordinary friendship between two icons of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. The exhibition spans a century of art, poetry, music and theater through great figures of art. “A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.” Gerstrude Stein A […]

FRUTTINI

La merveilleuse idée de Marie-Laure Pollet et Ollivia Berdah, les deux créatrices de Fruttini by MO, c’est de givrer tous les fruits, à la manière dont on le faisait autrefois avec les citrons et les oranges. Grâce à elles les plateaux de fruits prennent des allures de fête avec, selon les saisons, à peu près […]

FRUTTINI

The marvelous idea of Marie-Laure Pollet and Ollivia Berdah, the two creators of Fruttini by MO, is to frost all the fruit, the way we used to do it with lemons and oranges. Thanks to them, the fruit platters take on a festive look with, depending on the season, almost all the existing varieties: fig, […]

LA MAISON DU MOCHI

Lorsqu’elle revient d’un long séjour au Japon en 2015, Mathilda Motte n’a de cesse de chercher à Paris et ailleurs les délicieux mochis qu’elle dégustait là-bas. Mais n’en trouvant nulle part et comme elle a appris à les confectionner elle-même au pays du soleil levant, elle décide de créer La Maison du Mochi en 2016, […]

LA MAISON DU MOCHI

When she returned from a long stay in Japan in 2015, Mathilda Motte never stopped looking in Paris and elsewhere for the delicious mochis she tasted there. But not finding any anywhere and as she learned to make them herself in the land of the rising sun, she decided to create La Maison du Mochi […]

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BAR JAMES JOYCE

La légende veut que James Joyce ait écrit une partie d’ “Ulysse” dans l’immeuble du sublime Pavillon Faubourg Saint-Germain. Son bar, ouvert sur la rue, se veut lui résolument tourné vers une clientèle fidèle du quartier. Mais la carte des cocktails créée par le mixologue Clément Lepage rend hommage aux voyageurs et à toutes les destinations […]

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BAR JAMES JOYCE

Legend has it that James Joyce wrote part of “Ulysses” in the building of the sublime Pavillon Faubourg Saint-Germain. Its bar, open to the street, is resolutely aimed at a loyal clientele of the neighborhood. But the cocktail menu created by mixologist Clément Lepage pays tribute to travelers and all the destinations that make us […]