The Braquenié fabrics are the heirs to a long story marked by famous customers as Napoléon III, Victor Hugo or the empress Eugénie. Tremendous artists as Matisse or Saint-Saëns contributed in making this company founded in 1824 one of the pillars of French good taste.
Henri and Jacqueline Daumas show really original collections of kilims. Contemporary pieces, in wool and hemp, hand-thread in Turkey, whose patterns can be traditional or contemporary. All models made to order can be made-to-measure. But we also find there really exceptional antique textiles, Coptics, Ottomans or from Central Asia.
3 boulevard Raspail 75007 Paris
01.42.60.22.60
At Shu, the open kitchen on the room allows every guest to be present at all the preparations of the Chef Osamu Ukai. A restaurant for the real lovers of Japanese food who will enjoy a delicious feast of quail’s eggs with foie gras, miso and lotus’roots, of rice soup with ochazuké green tea, or of kushiagué, those little bites of vegetable, shellfish and fried meat, which are one of the Chef’s specialties. To accompany your meal, there is a large choice of sakés, in a glass or the bottle, in cold or hot flasks.
For almost seventy years Thoumieux has been the Brasserie of the whole Politic and Gourmet Paris. Taken over by Thierry Costes and of especially by Jean-François Piège in 2009, the typical setting of the 1930s is decorated with mirrors, red wall seats, many lightings which give the Brasserie a more rushed atmosphere. And concerning the food, still Brasserie… but reinterpreted by Sylvestre Wahid.
30, rue Gay-Lussac 75005 Paris
Monday thru Saturday
10.30 a.m – midnight
A spot we all like to begin a party with friends, to discover a great bottle of wine or products from little producers. But the Bistrot is also a restaurant where every meal is not like any other, because the menu called « retour du marché » (« return from the market ») is different every day, according to the chef’s wishes, Bertrand Bluy, former chef pastry cook at Taillevent.
This famous manufacture is renowned internationally for its woven carpets made with raffia, cotton, wool or linen. Each carpet by Cogolin is a unique piece made with delightful skill and know-how.
Directed by Alain de Monbrison and Emilie Salmon, the gallery specializes in the ancient arts of Africa and Oceania and is a reference for the greatest European and American museums which have acquired some of his works (Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Smithsonian in Washington, Detroit Institute of Art, Barbier Mueller Museum in Geneva…). As an expert, Alain de Monbrison also participates in the production of prestigious auctions.
This great English designer settled here in the 1970s, importing in our capital color, crazy combinations, the eccentricity and the optimism of Swinging London in the 1960s and 1970s. Nowadays Christophe d’Aboville runs the gallery under the leadership of Marie-Dominique Cunaud, for a new reading of the style of the designer.
34 Rue Mazarine 75006 Paris
01.43.25.01.11
Monday through Saturday
Il Vicolo is an indispensable place for all Italian Gastronomy buffs. In an uncluttered and colored décor, Loreda Schettino welcomes you in the Italian style, in their “house”. Here there is no pizza, the Chef Vincenzo Patruno reinterprets the traditional recipes of his country with very refined dishes as the big raviole of Saint-Jacques or the saffron and bitter cocoa risotto. Simply one of the best Italian restaurants in Paris.
Véronique Saintien and Francis Cat-Berro have been EDITING for more than twenty years unique pieces and limited series of design. Some great names of contemporary design are listed among the artists they present exclusively : Mattia Bonetti, Jacques Jarrige, Olivier Gagnère, Patrick Naggar or Eric Schmitt.
Founded in 1938 by Hans Knoll and his wife Florence, Knoll is really important in 20th century design. This company worked with most of the post-war architects and designers and a huge part of its furniture is now part of Design History and of the collections of the major museums, particularly the MOMA in New York City. At the beginning of this venture, Hans Knoll pulled off a remarkable feat by initiating Americans into European design, before calling in the best American designers, and his firm has always been a pioneer concerning innovation and creation.
Mercury – design Ross Lovegrove
Since 1964 Voltex has been editing the lights of the greatest designers : the “classiques sixties” by Vico Magistretti, Gae Aulenti or Gio Ponti mix the creations of the young (new) generation : Neil Poulton, Ora Ito, Ernesto Gimondi, Ross Lovegrove or Karim Rashid. You cannot do without them whatever your home style.
Nur – Design Ernesto Gismondi
Castore – Design Michel De Lucchi & H. Ubben
Cosmic – Design Ross Lovegrove
Doride – Design Karim Rashid
Pipe – Design Herzog & de Meuron
