Sophie and Mathieu Richard present pieces of the great French designers of the 1950s : Royère, Adnet, Jouve, Perriand, Prouvé, du Plantier but the gallery concentrates on the work of Mathieu Matégot, an inevitable post-war figure. Matégot was the first one to work metal as others work paper or material, by folding it or piercing it.
Maria Wettergren opened her own gallery after eight years directing the Galerie Dansk Møbelkunst. Her gallery is also dedicated to Scandinavian contemporary design, but she favours the work of young designers who continue, in a way, the heritage left by the great designers of the 20th century. Mathias Bengtsson, Louise Campbell, Ditte Hammerstroem, Cecilie Manz, Niels Hvass, Rasmus Fenhann, Astrid Krogh will probably become the new classicals.
Both an ultra-specialized archeology gallery which presents almost museum-like pieces and an open place which likes to confront Roman antiquities with the ceramics of Picasso or the work of contemporary artists.
For a little over twenty years, Ollivier, Gladys and Adrien Chenel have formed a team of enthusiastic gallery owners and experts who present these incredible pieces at the most beautiful fairs in the world.
44 rue du Bac 75007 Paris
01.45.44.73.73
Monday thru Saturday
Noon – 2.30 p.m and 7.00 – 11.00 p.m
This is a place imagined by Pierre Gagnaire and dedicated to the sea : fish, seafood, urchins and oysters of all kinds, cooked in a myriad of ways with only one meat dish a day. Making us feel at a famous chef’s restaurant but keeping the atmosphere simple.
For the creators John and Clara Molloy, fragrance is a journey. Each scent is inspired by a precise place: Lalibela, a holy city in Ethiopia, with hints of rose nacrée , Sundance, Utah’s famous film festival, with notes of tuberose, Inlé, a lake in Burma, smelling of iris, Siwa, an oasis in Egypt, and its heady vanilla…All places are rich with history or a symbol. The brand new perfume, Quartier Latin, is a celebration of our area, a delicate scent with sandalwood, cedrus, clove and bezoin resin, a fragrance for two.
Located on the prettiest of our squares, the Hôtel Récamier looks like a typical Germanopratine bourgeois house. Decorated by Jean-Louis Deniot, its luxury is not ostentatious, it is just chic. Its 24 rooms are all intimate, comfortable and precious cocoons. And at Récamier, tea time is sacred, on the patio on sunny days or by the fireplace in winter.
The scents of the Dyptique Candles have become indispensable, but there are other candles which are in harmony with them to give places we love a genuine character. Cire Trudon, a Royal Manufacture with an ancestral knowledge, which is the oldest candle factory in the world (1643) created them ! Here the perfumes are not identifiable at first “smell” but there are unique mixes which all reinterprete a moment of history and bring the legend of French taste to light : Empire, Pondichéry, Chandernagor, Odeur de Lune, Odalisque or Carmelite, Empire, Dada…
And today a collection of eau de parfum, kept in precious bottles, with original and heady fragrances, imagined by perfumers Antoine Lie, Yann Vasnier and Lyn Harris: Elae, Aphédie, Médie, Bruma, Deux, Révolution, Mortel and Black Mortal. Fragrances that also tell a whole story and embody a personality more than a genre.
Nobuyoshi Araki, Martin Parr, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Dado Moriyama, Mohammed Bourouissa, Anish Kapoor, appear amongst the artists represented by Kamel Mennour. This self-taught man managed to do in ten years what others spent a life-time to achieve : to present world-famous artists in an international gallery and try to make contemporary art accessible to the largest number, in particular by publishing numerous monographs.
Marie-Hélène de Taillac’s jewels are our favorite talismans. The designer spends six months per year in Jaïpur where she chooses her stones and makes them cut by Indian craftsmen. Briolettes, tourmalines, chalcedonies, they are all exceptional, and set in a way that they seem to be floating in the hollow of our necks or on our fingers. We are crazy about them !
Situated in the Hotel de Biron, the Musée Rodin is also an open-air museum where the public can turn round the sculptures, admire them and touch them. For lovers, the paths of the garden are an ideal place for a walk.
Specialising in 20th century movements like Dada, Surrealism and the ‘Nouveaux Réalistes’, Natalie Seroussi likes to initiate confrontations between modern and contemporary art.
She presents : Arman, Jean Arp, Evelyne Axell, John Baldessari, Giacomo Balla, Hans Bellmer, Henryk Berlewi, Jean Charles Blais, Alighiero e Boetti, Erik Boulatov, Victor Brauner, Mathieu Briand, Alexander Calder, Christo, Jean Crotti, Felix del Marle, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Malachi Farrell, Luis Fernandez, Julio Gonzales, Raymond Hains, Bernard Heidsieck, Jean Helion, Alain Jacquet, Konrad Klapheck, Yves Klein, Fernand Léger, André Masson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Francis Picabia, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Martial Raysse, Niki de Saint Phalle, Kurt Schwitters, Jesus-Rafael Soto, Vassilakis Takis, Jean Tinguely, Victor Vasarely, Tom Wesselmann, Caliopé Wols.
After the Puces de SaintOuen, Guilhem Faget and Alexandra Goult have arrived in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the other design hot spot ! Their Light selection from the 50’s to the 70’s favours Maria Pergay, Gino Sarfatti, Pierre Paulin or less famous names like Ben Swildens or Xavier Féal. You can also spot their favourite artist Claude Morin’s glass creations scattered across the shop.
