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Aladdin’s cave or Santa Claus’s sack, we do not know anymore. But in this enchanting place where all toys are pretty and playful, adults cannot resist, neither can kids.
1 rue Cassette 75006 Paris
01.45.48.21.10
Aladdin’s cave or Santa Claus’s sack, we do not know anymore. But in this enchanting place where all toys are pretty and playful, adults cannot resist, neither can kids.
1 rue Cassette 75006 Paris
01.45.48.21.10
When she created Caravane in 1995, Françoise Dorget traveled the world to bring back unique decorative objects that are often still unknown in France. Today the very notion of the unique is complicated but the Caravan style is still there with fabrics, accessories, furniture and lighting inspired by artisanal know-how. For the armchairs, sofas and chaise lounges which have also made the brand’s reputation, manufacturing remains exclusively French. Timeless pieces with an ethnic-chic style that blend with any decor.
Mille Fêtes takes care of everything to organize an afterschool snack or an original birthday party : invitation cards, garlands, candles, dishes, games, costumes, confetti, fireworks … and most of all balloons ! Surprise balloons, bouquets of balloons, they will prepare exactly what you dream of and on top of that, if organization is not your thing, a magician, a fairy, games, make-up, all a bunch of activities are at your disposal. But Mille Fêtes is also a boutique where you will find beautiful and smart games of good quality.
26 rue de l’Abbé Grégoire 75006 Paris
01.42.22.09.43
Créations Métaphores, which is part of the Hermès group, brings together three big names in French decoration: Métaphore and its very contemporary inspiration, Verel de Beleval and the prestige of Lyon silk, and Le Crin, known for its raw materials and know-how. make it exceptional. Three complementary brands, which offer a very refined range of fabrics.
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.
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.
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.