The furniture by Gilles Nouialhac seems to have been shaped by a cabinetmaker of long ago and yet it is contemporary creation, that the creator suggests reinterpreting with new materials: PVC, weaving, of fake leather … and a large choice of materials selected from many creators. Some 60 models of classic seats are presented in plain wood and white fabric in niches, on three levels. Louis XV chairs, Louis XVI wing chairs, Directoire couch, the decorative repertory of the Ancien Régime and of the Empire gets a new flush of youth.
Moreover, every piece of furniture can be customized thanks to a very wide range of sheen and lacquer to make each seat a unique piece.
Patricia de Nicolaï created those perfumes for home, but also for us, our men end even our children in 1989. In all of her creations we can recognize her touch, or more precisely her nose, and her predilection for white flowers and amber-based hints. Maharadjah is the leading essence of the brand, but it would be a pity to leave behind the eaux fraîches (fresh waters), which are perfect for the bathrobe.
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It is our favourite square, the hyphen between the Place Saint-Germain and the Jardin du Luxembourg. The Place Saint-Sulpice has a very parisian charm. It welcomes every year many events such as the “Foire Saint-Germain” in June.
Situated in the center of the square, the fountain, which was erected in 1844 is named the “Fontaine des quatre points cardinaux” (fountain of the four cardinal points) on account of the presence of the statutes of Bossuet, Fénelon, Massillon and Fléchier in the niches. None of them was ever a cardinal, but we like to sit down under them.
Nearby, the Rue des Cannettes, the Rue Guisarde and the Rue Princesse have a vast number of restaurants, bars and pubs. It is a really good place to party.
Mario Lefranc and Béatrice Ferrant have gone through great Maisons de Couture as Saint-Laurent, Lanvin and Catherine Malandrino before creating their own brand which presents luxurious ready-to-wear clothes and which is about to become a great Maison too.
We often arrange to meet under the Statue of Danton to go to the cinema, to the theater or to have a drink. Nearby, the Théâtre de l’Odéon and the Cour du Commerce Saint-André are witnesses of the Age of the Enlightenment, which saw the birth of this neighborhood. During summer the Theater square is almost Romanian with its café, surrounded by olive trees, vines and rosebays. Our favorite spot !
But our garden is somewhere else … in the Cour de Rohan. Henri II built several buildings for his mistress Diane de Poitiers here. Later, the painter Balthus had his studio there. It is our patch of countryside in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
It was Marie de Medici who had the Luxembourg Palace built between 1615 and 1630. In 1750, it became the first French museum open to the public, with nearly 200 paintings on display, before becoming in 1818, the “museum of living artists” Where Parisians can discover the creations of painters like David, Ingres or Delacroix. After many years of sleep, due in particular to the creation of other museums in Paris but in 2000, the Senate decided to remake the museum a living place and it is a success because the Musée du Luxembourg is again an essential place of the Parisian cultural life. A place apart, which has no permanent collections, but organizes, twice a year, exhibitions, always exceptional, by borrowing from French and foreign museums to create thematic exhibitions, or by resuming exhibitions presented in the other European capitals: Pissarro, Titien, Fragonard, Cézanne, Cranach or the Italian Renaissance and the Tudors have thus passed by.
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Paul Moreau-Vauthier – Mme Boucicaut et la Baronesse Clara de Hirsh
This garden, which faces the Bon Marché, honors the memory of Aristide Boucicaut, who created the famous department store. It is an ideal stopping place when the weather is great, sat in the shade of plane trees, Judas trees, or alders, among which some are hundred-years-old, or stretched out on lawns. Children can have rides on the merry-go-round, or have fun in the sandbox or in the playground; a pleasant public garden for all.
