Benoît Astier de Villatte et Ivan Pericoli offer incredibly poetic handcrafted ceramics, colognes, incense and some of the best candles you will find, plus stationery that is printed with their own press. The duo have created a chic and timeless, one of a kind maison.
The sole Parisian representative of the Arts and Crafts movement, Les Climats is a mythical venue with its classified Art Nouveau architecture.
The bar boasts a spectacular selection of Burgundy red wines and both traditional and utterly creative cuisine by Julien Boscus, who worked under Yannick Alléno and Pierre Gagnaire.
Christophe Michalak, in addition to being one of the best pastry chefs in the world, likes to invent and have fun with shapes and containers. Traditional pastries called Kosmik for example, revisited in small jars that you can enjoy wherever you go. Less fat, less sugar and above all no gelatin… Here is the quintessence of tastes and textures, according to the seasonal inspiration of Christophe Michalak! With a frozen variant for Ice Kream.
But also the Klassik, its cakes for 6 or 8 people, Raspberry-Lychee Pavlova, Vanilla Tonka-Caramel Millefeuille, or the yuzu-lime meringue tart. His Cakes, chocolate and fleur de sel, caramel and pistachio or vanilla. And of course Miss K, the unmissable salt butter caramel nun from chef Christophe Michalak or the Piquillo, this crunchy biscuit topped with pepper-raspberry confit and a hint of tabasco.
Chahan Minassian is multitalented : he is an interior designer, a designer, an antique dealer and a gallery owner. He has a passion for the American furniture of the 1930s to the 1960s, he presents, in his gallery of the Rue de Lille, pieces by Vladimir Kagan, Paul Evans, Karl Springer, Tommi Parzinger, Paul Laszlo, Philip and Kelvin Laverne, Edward Wormley, Harry Bertoia… and just next to it, he becomes again an interior designer and presents his style for international customers.
This is a favourite of the art galleries in the vicinity and artists bring the fun to the place. You will also meet fashionistas and writers. In the spring and summer time, the terrasse is delightful for a drink and a Sunday brunch.
A blink and you’ll miss it entrance door makes the Castor Club feel like a speakeasy which attracts night owls with a love for true cocktails and beautiful alcohols. It is a place where you will sway a little bit during sets while sipping delicious beverages after arriving quietly in the middle of the night like a true germanopratine….A beautiful venue, to be shared only with close friends.
L’Alcazar is having a second rebirth after a first revamp by Sir Terence Conran in 1998 who transitioned the place from a cabaret to a restaurant. This time it was entirely redecorated by Laura Gonzalez. She’s succeeded in making this extremely vast place with its shabby chic signature into a mix of English garden and Brazilian patio, meaning right on trend. The cuisine is also spot on: simple, refined, and fresh, but the cabaret spirit remains with offerings like Russian sturgeon caviar or a poached egg with foie gras. You may want to know what happened to La Mezzanine where people would dance so merrily. Now called Le Balcon, it is still the perfect follow-up for the evening with cocktails to die for.
She’s succeeded in making this extremely vast place with its shabby chic signature into a mix of English garden and Brazilian patio, meaning right on trend. The cuisine is also spot on: simple, refined, and fresh, but the cabaret spirit remains with offerings like Russian sturgeon caviar or a poached egg with foie gras.
You may want to know what happened to La Mezzanine where people would dance so merrily. Now called Le Balcon, it is still the perfect follow-up for the evening with cocktails to die for.
Welcome to a true lab of flavours with an open kitchen allowing to observe each dish being prepared. The cuisine is gastronomic but its core value remains creativity. It is therefore possible to taste a little bit of everything as all the star dishes are offered in a small portion version.
Daughter, granddaughter and great granddaughter of cooks, Hélène Darroze became a chef at a stroke of heart. From her native Landes, she kept the taste of simple and true products. She cooks what she likes, as she likes, dishes of instinct, incredibly inventive, which propelled her very quickly to the top. At Marsan, its iconic dishes are oyster-flavored glazed caviar oysters and tandoori lobster, accompanied by citrus carrot mousseline and a reduction of lampong pepper and fresh coriander.
Claus is a dream place, exclusively serving breakfasts with 100% homemade sweet and savoury specials with a twist from Nordic countries, France and the United Kingdom.
The MAD is a museum which boasts excitingly rich collections as well as temporary exhibitions which reputation is steadily growing. This is a place contemporary creation lovers could definitely consider home. Located in the Marsan wing of the Louvre, its prime mission is the appreciation of fine arts and the development of ties between the industrial world and culture, creation and production. It remains true to its original mission statement which is to maintain the culture of the arts which pursue beauty and usefulness in France.
In 2018, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs became the MAD, which stands for Mode Arts Design (Fashion Arts Design)
It conserves one of the most important fine arts collection in the world in 5 departments with a chronological approach -Medieval era and Renaissance, 17th and 18th centuries, 19th century, Art Nouveau-Art Deco, Modern and Contemporary- and 7 themed departments – graphic arts, jewellery, toys, wallpapers, glass, fashion and textile, advertising and graphic design- thus taking us on a journey to the evolution of artistic production in fine arts from the Middle-Ages to contemporary design, showing furniture, tableware, graphic arts, goldsmithery, glass, ceramics, wallpaper, tapestry, painting and sculpture.
The former residence of the Kings of France, the Musée du Louvre has become the most visited museum in the world. Over 8 millions people come each year to enjoy the masterpieces.
The great palace hosting the museums dates back to the 12th century and is in itself a true architectural lesson. From 1200 to 2011, some of the most innovative architects helped build and improve the Louvre. The palace was a political center for a long period: a royal residence, and the home of French Chiefs of State until 1870, it was a key place in the history of Paris and France.
A dark fortified fortress built in the 12th century, the Palais du Louvre was the residence of King Francis I then the sumptuous palace of Louis XIV known as the Sun King. A decree from the 6 May 1791 ordered the creation of a Muséum central des arts de la République (Republic’s Central Museum of the Arts). The museum served first and foremost as a place for the training of artists as they were the only ones to have access to le Louvre during the week while the general public could only get in on sundays.
In 1803, the museums was renamed Musée Napoléon and loots from Napoleonic Wars were added to it. Only during the Third Republic did the Louvre become State Property and acquired its current ‘National Museum’ status. During the Presidency of François Mitterrand, the Richelieu wing was given back to the museum as it previously housed the Ministry of Finances. The museum underwent significant revamping under the direction of American architect Ieoh Ming Pei. Its most significant achievement is the building of the Louvre Pyramid at the entrance of the museum.
