Entries by Hélène

MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY

The Quai Branly Museum or Museum of arts and civilizations in Africa, Asia, Oceania and America, devised and designed by Jean Nouvel, is made of four buildings which are linked together by footbridges. This cultural place is set under the patronage of the UNESCO. Its ambition is to acknowledge the major place occupied by civilizations, […]

MUSEE DE CLUNY

  The National Museum of the Middle Ages is settled down in two exceptional Parisian monuments: the Gallo-Roman thermae (1st and 2nd centuries) and the Hotel of the abbots of Cluny (end of the 15th century). The collections enable people to go through almost fifteen centuries of art and architecture : Romanesque architecture, Gothic sculpture, […]

MUSEE BOURDELLE

The Musée Bourdelle is the studio where Antoine Bourdelle lived and worked for four years. The museum takes up the whole space: apartments, studio and garden. The place was turned into a museum in 1949. Then two expansions were made by Henri Gautruche in 1961 and by Christian de Portzamparc in 1992. More than 500 […]

MAISON DE LA CULTURE DU JAPON

  Since its opening in 1997, the Community Arts Center of Japan has offered the public to discover all the facets of the traditional and contemporary Japanese culture, thanks to its various activities : exhibitions, live performances, cinema and courses, tea ceremony, cookery, ikebana, calligraphy, Go game, origami …       MAISON DE LA […]

CATHERINE LABOURE’ S GARDEN

A family garden, where children can play and run, and where we can picnic or have a nap in the grass, because the vast lawns bordered with lime trees and poplars are hidden behind the high stone wall of the Rue de Babylone. It is a real orchard that kept all the charm of the […]

SQUARE RECAMIER

  This terraced garden is particularly intimate, hidden at the bottom of the Rue Récamier, which is a residential dead end street sheltered from the surrounding tumult. It was built in 1933 at the place where the convent of the Abbaye-aux-Bois used to be, and where Madame Récamier withdrew to end her days. What makes […]

PLACE FURSTENBERG

  Delacroix’s studio (which has become a museum), Serge Aboukrat’s art gallery, the sublime shop windows of the material designers, and its four trees which make it really romantic in the spring time : the Place Furstenberg is the meeting place of beautiful materials lovers and of lovers in general. Today, its postcard beauty and […]

Galerie DUMONTEIL

A Paris, New York et Shanghaï, la Galerie Dumonteil présente une sélection de pièces de design, de sculptures, tableaux et photographies autour du thème de l’Animal et de la Nature. De grands Maîtres comme François Pompon, Georges-Lucien Guyot, Bugatti, Diego Giacometti, Charles Artus, Marcel Derny, Pablo Picasso, Armand Petersen et Joseph Czaky, et des artistes […]

Galerie DUMONTEIL

In Paris, New York and Shanghai, the Dumonteil Gallery presents a selection of design pieces, sculptures, paintings and photographs around the theme of Animals and Nature. Great Masters like François Pompon, Georges-Lucien Guyot, Bugatti, Diego Giacometti, Charles Artus, Marcel Derny, Pablo Picasso, Armand Petersen and Joseph Czaky, and contemporary artists, Jean-Marie Fiori, Helmut Koller, Eric […]

FONDATION CUSTODIA

C’est en 1947 que Frits Lugt et son épouse To Lugt-Klever ont créé la Fondation Custodia, en installant leur impressionnante collection de dessins anciens, d’estampes et de lettres d’artistes à l’hôtel Turgot, à quelques pas de l’Assemblée Nationale. Un bâtiment du XVIIIe siècle où le temps semble s’être arrêté. La Fondation Custodia (bonne garde en […]

Galerie PASCAL CUISINIER

Pascal Cuisinier a ouvert sa galerie à Saint-Germain des prés après un passage par les puces de Saint-Ouen. Deux spécialités pour ce jeune antiquaire : le mobilier des designers français des années 50, Paulin, Leroy, Caillette, Richard, Guariche …, et les luminaires des années 50/70. Galerie PASCAL CUISINIER 13 rue de Seine 75006 Paris 01 43 […]

JEU DE PAUME

The Jeu de Paume is an artistic venue exclusively dedicated to contemporary photography, video art, experimental film and documentary essay. The Jeu de Paume produces, co-produces and houses exhibitions, film festivals, conferences, educational activities and publications. It also supports internet creation hosting web-based projects on its website. The history of the place is quite eventful: […]