An experience to begin in the very pretty pool, equipped with massaging hydrojets and counter-current swimming, before continuing in the hammam. for a steam bath. The body and facial treatments then provided in the two spa cabins are an alliance between Asian tradition and the cosmetic expertise of French Physiomer products.
A very complete treatment menu, including a tailor-made Signature treatment and lymphatic drainage of the Renata França Method, practiced here by Estelle Segura.
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An updated guide for those who are looking for excellence and exception above all
In the current Events, you will find exhibitions, shows or movie festivals as well as the latest germanopratin spots not to miss.
In the guide, more than 500 addresses : museums, Art Centers, galleries one should visit, the gardens one should go for a walk, but also a perfect selection of restaurants, of places where to have a gourmet break, of clubs where to go dancing and of chic and original hotels : all the magical places which make the spirit of Saint-Germain.
Regarding fashion, all the creators and fashion designers who are settled in Saint-Germain-des-près : for each of them a general survey of each seasonal collection, but also a focus on the collections to come during the fashion week of Paris, Milano, London and New York City. As well as the spas, perfume shops and jewelers you will find in the same section.
And since Saint-Germain-des-près has become the favorite place of all the lovers of Décor, Art Deco galleries, design, wallpaper creators and decorators have found a central place in Les Germanopratines.
To conclude on this guide, you will find the famous Bon Marché Rive Gauche, the department store which doesn’t look like one where so many things happen and which is the place of all the germanopratin trends.
GERMANOPRATINES : adj, n (lat. germanus “from the same blood”)
Refers to those who have the chance to live in the so-called neighborhood “saint-Germain-des-près” but also those who have chosen it as their favorite place and love its heavenly and gourmet whereabouts. No need to be rich, the germanopratine has nerve and taste. She is always trendy, sometimes arty and very often bold, what matters for her is to escape the “bling bling” and any other fake style.
The editorial team of this website wanted to join a community of mind, style or thought : those who represent, each one in its own way, the pillars of the Germanopratin spirit. Altogether they represent this curious mix of culture, history, fashion, little of snobbery and lightness that we can find nowhere else.
Talking about the brands we can find a little bit everywhere and being exhaustive is out of the question. Here, only the ones who “make the legend” of Saint-Germain-des-près or who have chosen it as there adoptive land will be present on our website.
What other neighborhood in Paris or elsewhere in some other big capital does gather the past and the future as this one ? Antiques and design, top designers and young creators, jazz clubs and trendy clubs, bistrots, cafés and Master Chef’s restaurants, the Comédie Française and the avant-garde theatre ?
Saint-Germain-des-près has always been set out to be different. Nowhere else will you find a neighborhood that mixes genres so well : gastronomy, art, design, literature, fashion… everything that is close to culture and refinement is here.
It doesn’t matter if the Germanopratins are no longer what they used to be, if the men of letters are fewer in the terraces of the cafés than the people in fashion. Today as yesterday, in this neighborhood that everybody is jealous of, taste and a certain way of life are inseparable for good. And why not imagine Simone de Beauvoir with a Hermès Turban and Juliette Gréco in Martin Margiela ?
This great place was opened almost one century ago by Sylvia Beach. She was the first one to publish “Ulysse” by James Joyce or to sell banned books in England and in the United States such as “Lady Chatterley’s lover”. During this period, the shop was considered as the centre of American English culture in Paris. Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein or James Joyce stayed there regularly. George Whitman took over from Sylvia Beach in 1951 and then it was the turn of the Beat Generation’s writers to take possession of the premises.
Today, Whitman’s daughter, Sylvia, manages the bookshop which is still a landing place for many travelers of the whole world who can sleep at Shakespeare and Co in exchange for working a few hours there. Students can consult thousands of books, new ones, old ones, and even rare ones, which are piled up and cover all the walls and the shelves.
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Annabel Winship presents trendy flat-heeled shoes which are comfortable, a clever mixture of English eccentricity and Parisian elegance. We love her famous Union Jack flat-heeled shoes or her boots decorated with metallic stars, but also her babies and her derbys, always easy to wear to run from an appointment to another.
Every product is made with a mix of high-quality and concentrated ingredients : essences of plants very much sought-after (tea tree, bitter orange, tangerine, coriander, geranium) with delicate and refined perfumes. There are no animal ingredients and the synthetic preservatives are reduced to the minimum and are replaced by vegetable products. We also like the way products are presented : in simple and opaque bottles, in order to preserve them from ultraviolet rays and to preserve their integrity.
Frédéric Malle produces perfumes as others produce design, it means that he lets the greatest perfumers work without the slightest restriction. They create authentic artistic creations with very asserted character that we cannot do without once we have tried them. To discover them you will be able, in a décor imagined by Andrée Putman, to enter in a “Colonne à Sentir” (“column to smell”), an invention which takes you progressively into perfumes, lets you learn to love them. A very beautiful experience.
Everything started with Pierre-François Lubin, who created his Maison de Parfumerie (Perfume shop) in 1798, to give to “Incroyables” (the Incredible Dandies) and to “Merveilleuses” (the fine ladies) (our ancestors!) perfumed ribbons, masks for balls and face powder, but most of all, his famous “eau vivifiante”(invigorating-bracing water) which became “L’Eau de Lubin” (Lubin’s Water). Lubin’s fame reached empress Joséphine and Pauline Bonaparte, and he became their favorite before becoming the one of Marie Hélène de Bourbon and of all European sovereigns. One century later, in the Roaring twenties, a new perfume is created every year. The Art Deco perfume bottles are designed by Julien Viard and Maurice Depinoix and the luxurious editions are made of Baccarat Crystal.
Lubin’s perfumes are the symbol of French elegance, particularly in the United-States, and until 1975 success has continued before the brand felt into oblivion with the massive appearance on the market of perfumes made by top fashion designers. In 1999, Gilles Thévenin, director of creation at Guerlain at that time, decides to give a new life to Lubin, which still represents to him the quintessence of French luxury. It is a titanic project but, fortunately, he has a great part of the 450 scents created by the brand and he decides, with Olivia Giacobetti’s help (one of the famous noses of French perfumery, remember En Passant at Frédéric Malle) to put some of them back on the market, alternating with the creations of new fragrances.
This gallery presents 5 to 6 annual exhibitions which show the various periods and waves of photography: Denis Brihat, Denis Dailleux, Paul den Hollander, Bernard Descamps, Eric Dessert, Duhiro Ishimoto, Michael Kenna, Bohnchang Koo, Saul Leiter, Laurent Millet, Sarah Moon, Françoise Nuñez, Philippe Pache, Françoise Nuñez, Luis Gonzales Palma, Marc Riboud, Willy Ronis, Paolo Roversi, Pentti Sammallahti, Patrick Taberna, Christopher Taylor, Alexey Titarenko, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt.
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Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois were the first ones to dedicate personal exhibitions to Alain Bublex, Gilles Barbier or Paul MacCarthy in France and they are now on display all around the world. Among those whose works are defended by the gallery, there are really well known artists but also younger artists : Boris Achour, Pilar Albarracin, Matthew Antezzo, Julien Bismuth, Richard Jackson, Adam Janes, Jeff Mills, Joachim Mogarra, Jacques Villeglé, Virginie Yassef …
Hervé Loevenbruck fell in love with Saint-Germain-des-Prés . In his gallery he displays many young hopefuls from the French and European contemporary world : Philippe Mayaux, Bruno Peinado, Fabien Giraud, Raphaël Siboni, Virginie Barré, the Irishwoman Blaise Drummond, the Norwegian Gardar Eide Einarsson, the Swiss Cristian Andersen and the Austrian Werner Reiterer, but also already well known artists as the Hungarian Gabor Ösz or Alina Szapoznikow from Poland.
