Alain Ducasse and Nicolas Berger both share a passion for original tastes over extravagant ones and have selected chocolates for their purity and personality from twelve sources, meaning as many different identities and unique flavours. Each selected bean is carefully worked according to its own character and is unmixed to better reveal the identity of its producing country.
To bring back the glory days of the Jean-Vincent Bully’s Officine which made a name for itself in the 19th century, Victoire de Taillac and Ramdane Touami went back to the original recipes and associated ancestral textures and protocoles with innovative cosmetic techniques to obtain natural products with longtested virtues.
Nothing is missing in the interior design imagined by Nicolas Daul, from the real apothecary counters to the painted ceilings, the spirit of Honoré de Balzac can be felt everywhere !
Le LABO’s thirteen fragrances are all composed with a primary scent (vetiver, orange blossom, oud, sandalwood, vanilla, patchouli, bergamot orange, tuberose, iris, rose, neroli, jasmine…) after which they are named, followed by the number of ingredients used in each fragrance to complement the top note. Chic and confidential.
“The Virgin, the vivacious and the beautiful today”…. Marcel Zelmanovitch had this title of a poem by Mallarmé in mind when he opened his gallery in 1982. This is a celebration of the day and today, that is to say of what is always possible because only carried by a momentum, an energy, a flame. Thus he created the first French publishing gallery of unique and tailor-made carpets created by decorators and designers. Thanks to him, we are rediscovering the great craftsmanship of carpets, which turns its back on mass production with the creation of exceptional objects.
The twin of the Flore, or its enemy, also has its literary Prize, created in 1993 and which is the first one to be awarded in January. So how to decide between the Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots ? Everyone has to decide according to his tastes. Maybe we will choose Les Deux Magots to have a cup of tea or a hot chocolate made in the traditional way and for its terrace during spring or even in winter when we look desperately for the first rays of sunshine.
Pierre Marcolini a real discovery of chocolate, from Mexico to Madagascar, from Venezuela to Jave Isle and from Ecuador to Ghana. But one must not forget to taste his delicious and original pastries.
Enter the kingdom of William Ledeuil, the inventor of Fusion Food. This renowned chef loves to find new ways to constantly stimulate our taste buds by creating genius and one-of-a-kind associations without using salt, flour and butter like one traditionally would. Yuzu, ginger, guava, lemongrass, sesame and wasabi are the condiments that titillate our palates with the taste of this boundless gastronomy. A truly unique experience.
In 1978, Andrée Putman created the Ecart company to reissue furniture from the 30s and 40s by Eileen Gray, Pierre Chareau and Jean-Michel Frank. Having become a legendary figure in design, she succeeded in developing a catalog of incredible coherence. However, she decided to sell the shares of her company in 1997, to devote herself to interior architecture, with the creation of the Putman studio.
Today Ecart International is reborn thanks to Pascal Lapeyre and Lucie Tonelli and reissues legendary masterpieces by designers from the first half of the 20th century, for which it owns the exclusive rights, but the house also wishes to welcome new talents, like Christophe Pillet or Bruno Moinard and don’t forget its creator either, since the works of Andrée Putman will be the subject of a reissue.
The Galerie Le Minotaure, created in 2002, is situated Rue des Beaux-Arts, at the former address of the famous bookshop from whom it preserved its name. His founder, Benoit Sapiro, is fascinated by Russian and Central Europe artists of the first half of the 20th century. Benoit Sapiro dedicated himself to helping rediscover the first half of the 20th Century Russian and Central Europe artists for more than twenty years, with a constant and passionated action.
A bit of North American gastronomy in a chic and cozy decor or on the magnificent patio when the weather is nice. We taste a lobster from Maine or a crab from Maryland, we eat a good hotdog, an organic burger or a steak from Colorado to finish with a cheese cake. Without forgetting the tradition of the doggy bag when leaving !
