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I did a supportive photo shoot for a beloved person that currently is struggling with the diagnosis of breast cancer and going through a hard time with chemo therapy. Supporting in any way is good, even with bringing a smile through some supportive Stormtroopers under the command of Darth Vader :-)
The Moulin de la Galette is a windmill and associated businesses situated near the top of the district of Montmartre in Paris. Since the 17th century the windmill has been known for more than just its milling capabilities. Nineteenth-century owners and millers, the Debray family, made a brown bread, galette, which became popular and thus the name of the windmill and its businesses, which have included a famous guinguette and restaurant. In the 19th century, Le Moulin de la Galette represented diversion for Parisians seeking entertainment, a glass of wine and bread made from flour ground by the windmill. Artists, such as Renoir, van Gogh, and Pissarro have immortalized Le Moulin de la Galette; likely the most notable was Renoir's festive painting, Bal du moulin de la Galette.
Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida, was a French singer and actress, born in Egypt to Italian parents.
She won the Miss Egypt beauty contest in 1954 and began a 31-year singing career in 1956, selling 170 million albums and singles worldwide. She died by suicide in 1987.
Entrance to the Hector Guimard metro.
This square, always animated by people and traffic, was in March 1814 a theater of violent fighting between the Russian troops (who had entered Paris and occupied the Champsaaa-Élysées with the rest of the allies) and Marshal Moncey, who was erected a monument, today in the center of the square. From here depart the boulevard de Clichy and the boulevard de Rochechouart, which skirts the entire Montmartre hill.
Autumn!
The Bois de Boulogne is a large public park located along the western edge of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine. The land was ceded to the city of Paris by the Emperor Napoleon III to be turned into a public park in 1852.
It is the second-largest park in Paris, slightly smaller than the Bois de Vincennes on the eastern side of the city. It covers an area of 845 hectares (2088 acres), which is about two and a half times the area of Central Park in New York and slightly less (88%) than that of Richmond Park in London.
Views from the friend's triplex apartment, in the background La Défense where it is the largest financial center in the city of Paris.
Avenue Foch is an avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, named after World War I Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1929. It is one of the most prestigious streets in Paris, and one of the most expensive addresses in the world, home to many grand palaces, including ones belonging to the Onassis and Rothschild families. The Rothschilds once owned numbers 19-21. The avenue runs from the Arc de Triomphe southwest to the Porte Dauphine at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne city park. It is the widest av
Montmartre is a large hill in Paris's 18th arrondissement.
It is 130 m (430 ft) high and gives its name to the surrounding district, part of the Right Bank in the northern section of the city.
In renovations, again.
La Grande Arche is a spectacular monument in La Défense business district. In the axis of Arc de Triomphe, it is a pure 20th century replica of Arc de Triomphe on a huge scale. Its roof provides a great view of Grand Paris.
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La Grande Arche de la Défense, also called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité, is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France.
It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply as La Grande Arche. A 110-metre-high (360 ft) cube, La Grande Arche is part of the perspective from the Louvre to Arc de Triomphe. The distance from La Grande Arche to Arc de Triomphe is 4 km (2 1⁄2 miles).
A great national design competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president François Mitterrand. Danish architect Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929–1987) and Danish engineer Erik Reitzel (1941-2012) designed the winning entry to be a late-20th-century version of the Arc de Triomphe: a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than military victories.
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A panoramic lift brings you to the roof at 110 meters with a view up to Arc de Triomphe.
The roof is open 7 days a week. 10.30am to 6.30pm.
Access for disabled people.
Ticket price: 15 euros.
It was closed every time I went. Always in reforms.
The famous Hôtel Ritz is located here at number 15, and the house where Chopin died in 1849 at number 12.
Lady Diana left this hotel to die in Paris.
Les Deux Plateaux, more commonly known as the Colonnes de Buren, is a highly controversial art installation created by the French artist Daniel Buren in 1985–1986. It is located in the inner courtyard (Cour d'Honneur) of the Palais Royal in Paris, France.
• The Buren columns are an 'in situ' installation built in 1986 which extends over 3000 m2 in the courtyard of the royal palace 1st arrondissement (opposite the Louvre).
• This work was commissioned by the Minister of Culture at the time (Jack Lang) to magnify the main courtyard of the royal palace, at the time occupied by a vulgar parking lot.
• The royal palace is indeed a historically charged place: built by Richelieu in 1628, it houses a palace, gardens, galleries and a theater 'la comédie Française'.
• It is also the place that houses the Ministry of Culture.
DESCRIPTION
• The installation includes 260 black and white striped columns (in Buren's work the bands are always 8.7 cm)
• The columns are made of Carrara marble (white) and black Pyrenean marble
The columns are aligned with reference to the classical architecture of the place and are arranged in a checkerboard shape.
The columns emerge in the open air as if it arose from the archaeological soil of Paris.
Of different heights, these columns visually create a rhythm that contrasts with the classicism of the colonnade of the royal palace.
Originally the water was to flow underground around the underground columns lit by light effects.
MEANING
• The form of the installation: the column, its material: the marble and its arrangement: straight make many echoes of ancient architecture.
• Daniel Buren also wanted to restore its popular character to the place, because its installation, in the shape of a checkerboard, invites the public to invest it: people sit on the columns, jump, climb, take a break ...
• The artist wanted to create contrasts: classic / modern;
• solemnity of the buildings.
CONTROVERSY
• The result provokes a public outcry: can we install zebra columns in a classified historic site?
• Petitions are circulating… Buren is accused of wanting to disfigure a mythical place!
• The ministry is even studying the destruction of the work before its inauguration.
• In the end, the artist sues the state and the project is carried out.
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Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938) is a French conceptual artist.
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Les Deux Plateaux, more commonly known as the Colonnes de Buren, is a highly controversial art installation created by the French artist Daniel Buren in 1985–1986. It is located in the inner courtyard (Cour d'Honneur) of the Palais Royal in Paris, France.
As described by the architectural writer Andrew Ayers, "Buren's work takes the form of a conceptual grid imposed on the courtyard, whose intersections are marked by candy-striped black-and-white columns of different heights poking up from the courtyard's floor like sticks of seaside rock. ... In one sense the installation can be read as an exploration of the perception and intellectual projection of space."
The work replaced the courtyard's former parking lot and was designed to conceal ventilation shafts for an underground extension of the culture ministry's premises. Some of the columns extend below courtyard level and are surrounded by pools of water into which passersby toss coins.
The project was the "brainchild" of the culture minister Jack Lang and elicited considerable controversy at the time. It was attacked for its cost and unsuitability to a historic landmark. Lang paid no attention to the orders of the Commission des Monuments Historiques, which objected to the plan. In retrospect Ayers has remarked: "Given the harmlessness of the result (deliberate — Buren wanted a monument that would not dominate), the fuss seems excessive, although the columns have proved not only expensive to install, but also to maintain."
Vandalism?
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Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida, was a French singer and actress, born in Egypt to Italian parents.
She won the Miss Egypt beauty contest in 1954 and began a 31-year singing career in 1956, selling 170 million albums and singles worldwide. She died by suicide in 1987.
La Défense is a major business district located three kilometres west of the city limits of Paris. It is part of the Paris metropolitan area in the Île-de-France region, located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in the communes of Courbevoie, La Garenne-Colombes, Nanterre, and Puteaux.
La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district, covering 560 hectares (1,400 acres), with 72 glass and steel buildings (of which 19 are completed skyscrapers), 180,000 daily workers, and 3,500,000 square metres (38,000,000 sq ft) of office space. Around its Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises. Les Quatre Temps, a large shopping mall in La Défense, has 220 stores, 48 restaurants and a 24-screen movie theatre.
1st March - Self Injury Awareness Day
"My scars tell a story.
They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed.
They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded."
Steve Maraboli
Pure geometric shapes form a transparent glass maze to pass from the front to the bottom of the Grande Arch.
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In 1982, Francois Mitterand, the President of France, initiated a national design competition to create a new Arc de Triomphe. This time, the monument was built not to celebrate a military victory, but to celebrate humanity. From all of the competing projects, the design of Danish Architects Johann Otto von Spreckelsen won the competition. The construction of this new Arc de Triomphe began in 1985. Unfortunately, the original architect of the Arche could not finish the monument as he resigned in 1986 before the monument was finish. His work was continued by French Architect Paul Andreu until the completion of the monument in 1989. The company that handled the construction project was Bouygues, the giant French civil engineering company.
The monument itself is meant to be a giant cube ( 108m x 110m x 112m ) projected onto three-dimensional world. Its design was firm yet decorated with elegance of glass and marble frames from Italy. The fragile marble has recently been replaced by granite on most of the surface.
It was created in 1898 by the Swiss César Ritz who said he wanted to offer a wealthy clientele a hotel with 'the refinements that a prince wishes to have in his own home.' Thus, he transformed the palace of the Duke of Lauzun (No. 15 in Place Vendôme) into what would become one of the first hotels in the world. At least the most famous.
Galleria Ferrari
Audi Road Trip Avril 2017
Toulouse - Sant'Agata Bolognese
Galleria Ferrari
Audi Road Trip Avril 2017
Toulouse - Sant'Agata Bolognese
'Bar-café gay avec terrasse, musique, happy hour, servant cocktails, salades, hamburgers et grillades.'
Metro station.
Entrance to the metro, by Hector Guimard, another typical element of the city of Paris.
Hanging around.
Views from the friend's triplex apartment, in the background La Défense where it is the largest financial center in the city of Paris.
Avenue Foch is an avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, named after World War I Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1929. It is one of the most prestigious streets in Paris, and one of the most expensive addresses in the world, home to many grand palaces, including ones belonging to the Onassis and Rothschild families. The Rothschilds once owned numbers 19-21. The avenue runs from the Arc de Triomphe southwest to the Porte Dauphine at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne city park. It is the widest avenue in Paris and is lined with chestnut trees along its full length.
The Moulin de la Galette is a windmill and associated businesses situated near the top of the district of Montmartre in Paris. Since the 17th century the windmill has been known for more than just its milling capabilities. Nineteenth-century owners and millers, the Debray family, made a brown bread, galette, which became popular and thus the name of the windmill and its businesses, which have included a famous guinguette and restaurant. In the 19th century, Le Moulin de la Galette represented diversion for Parisians seeking entertainment, a glass of wine and bread made from flour ground by the windmill. Artists, such as Renoir, van Gogh, and Pissarro have immortalized Le Moulin de la Galette; likely the most notable was Renoir's festive painting, Bal du moulin de la Galette.
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The windmill Moulin de la Galette, also known as Blute-fin, was built in 1622. The name Blute-fin comes from the French verb bluter which means sifting flour for the separation from bran.
The Debray family acquired the two mills in 1809 for producing flour, the Blute-fin and the Radet, built in 1717. But it was also used to pressurize the harvest or grind materials needed for manufacturing.
An association Friends of Old Montmartre saved it from destruction in 1915. In 1924, its owner moved the windmill to the corner of Girardon and Lepic streets. It was restored in 1978, but is not running. The windmill has been classified as a monument since 1958.
Showcase of a Parisian shop with only old sewing machines.
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A sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies. Since the invention of the first working sewing machine, generally considered to have been the work of Elias Howe and Englishman Thomas Saint in 1790, the sewing machine has greatly improved the efficiency and productivity of the clothing industry.
Home sewing machines are designed for one person to sew individual items while using a single stitch type at a time. In a modern sewing machine, the process of stitching has been automated so that the fabric easily glides in and out of the machine without the inconvenience of needles, thimbles and other tools used in hand sewing. Early sewing machines were powered by either constantly turning a handle or with a treadle mechanism. Electrically-powered machines were later introduced.
Industrial sewing machines, by contrast to domestic machines, are larger, faster, and more varied in their size, cost, appearance, and task.
Les Deux Plateaux, more commonly known as the Colonnes de Buren, is a highly controversial art installation created by the French artist Daniel Buren in 1985–1986. It is located in the inner courtyard (Cour d'Honneur) of the Palais Royal in Paris, France.
• The Buren columns are an 'in situ' installation built in 1986 which extends over 3000 m2 in the courtyard of the royal palace 1st arrondissement (opposite the Louvre).
• This work was commissioned by the Minister of Culture at the time (Jack Lang) to magnify the main courtyard of the royal palace, at the time occupied by a vulgar parking lot.
• The royal palace is indeed a historically charged place: built by Richelieu in 1628, it houses a palace, gardens, galleries and a theater 'la comédie Française'.
• It is also the place that houses the Ministry of Culture.
DESCRIPTION
• The installation includes 260 black and white striped columns (in Buren's work the bands are always 8.7 cm)
• The columns are made of Carrara marble (white) and black Pyrenean marble
The columns are aligned with reference to the classical architecture of the place and are arranged in a checkerboard shape.
The columns emerge in the open air as if it arose from the archaeological soil of Paris.
Of different heights, these columns visually create a rhythm that contrasts with the classicism of the colonnade of the royal palace.
Originally the water was to flow underground around the underground columns lit by light effects.
MEANING
• The form of the installation: the column, its material: the marble and its arrangement: straight make many echoes of ancient architecture.
• Daniel Buren also wanted to restore its popular character to the place, because its installation, in the shape of a checkerboard, invites the public to invest it: people sit on the columns, jump, climb, take a break ...
• The artist wanted to create contrasts: classic / modern;
• solemnity of the buildings.
CONTROVERSY
• The result provokes a public outcry: can we install zebra columns in a classified historic site?
• Petitions are circulating… Buren is accused of wanting to disfigure a mythical place!
• The ministry is even studying the destruction of the work before its inauguration.
• In the end, the artist sues the state and the project is carried out.
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Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938) is a French conceptual artist.
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Les Deux Plateaux, more commonly known as the Colonnes de Buren, is a highly controversial art installation created by the French artist Daniel Buren in 1985–1986. It is located in the inner courtyard (Cour d'Honneur) of the Palais Royal in Paris, France.
As described by the architectural writer Andrew Ayers, "Buren's work takes the form of a conceptual grid imposed on the courtyard, whose intersections are marked by candy-striped black-and-white columns of different heights poking up from the courtyard's floor like sticks of seaside rock. ... In one sense the installation can be read as an exploration of the perception and intellectual projection of space."
The work replaced the courtyard's former parking lot and was designed to conceal ventilation shafts for an underground extension of the culture ministry's premises. Some of the columns extend below courtyard level and are surrounded by pools of water into which passersby toss coins.
The project was the "brainchild" of the culture minister Jack Lang and elicited considerable controversy at the time. It was attacked for its cost and unsuitability to a historic landmark. Lang paid no attention to the orders of the Commission des Monuments Historiques, which objected to the plan. In retrospect Ayers has remarked: "Given the harmlessness of the result (deliberate — Buren wanted a monument that would not dominate), the fuss seems excessive, although the columns have proved not only expensive to install, but also to maintain."
Sophistication and elegance in 2010.
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Breaking News on July 12, 2017. (7 years late).
Paris's Colette – 'the trendiest store in the world' – set to close
The concept boutique known for unexpected collaborations and being the only shop that Karl Lagerfeld claims to frequent will shut up shop in December.
Colette, the influential Parisian boutique described as “the trendiest store in the world” by Forbes, has announced it will close its doors in December. The news has been interpreted by fashion insiders as the “end of an era”, and a discouraging sign for bricks-and-mortar shopping.
The store on Rue Saint-Honoré has been at the centre of fashion since it opened its doors in March 1997. Founded by Colette Rousseaux, who still lives above the shop, with her daughter Sarah Andelman as its public face, it is a concept store, a place to hang out and a site of pilgrimage for the fashion crowd. It is flocked to by editors and buyers during show season. Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld, said last year that it’s the only shop he frequents “because they have things no one else has”.
There was little clue that this particular closure was on the cards. Colette is a master of collaborations and was at the centre of a fashion frenzy in June, when Balenciaga – one of the most hyped labels in Paris – partnered with the store to create exclusive pieces, including branded €10 lighters and €35 coffee mugs. During its final four months, collaborations are planned with Sacai, Chanel and Saint Laurent.
Other past partnerships have ranged from Ikea to Hermès and Vespa to Vans shoes. Such a sense of the unexpected has been Colette’s calling card during its two decades in business.
The store’s products make for a carefully curated mix – masterminded by Andelman – across its three floors and 8,000 square feet of retail space. Super-expensive designer goods sit alongside streetwear, magazines, toys, food and music. It is possible to visit and make a purchase whether your budget is meagre or in the millions. The launch of a basement water bar – offering 73 different types of mineral water – was undoubtedly another fashion moment.
A statement released by the brand reads: “As all good things must come to an end … Colette should be closing its doors on December 20th of this year.” It explains that Rousseaux, its founder and namesake, is set to retire: “Colette Rousseaux has reached the time when she would like to take her time, and Colette cannot exist without Colette.”
It is thought that the brand may live on in some capacity online. Creative director Andelman said in March that the revenues had been affected by the reduction in tourist numbers following the terrorist attacks on Paris in 2015, but added that e-commerce was growing.
The brand’s final collaborator, Saint Laurent, is in talks to take over the Colette space from 2018. The Colette statement reads: “We would be proud to have a brand with such history, with whom we have frequently collaborated, taking over our address.” There is also a suggestion that the staff of Colette could now work in the Saint Laurent store.
The news of the closure has been greeted with surprise and sadness on social media. Another Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue have tweeted about it; “Colette closing” was trending on Wednesday when the news broke; while users of Instagram posted an image of two white bubbles, one reading 1997 the other 2017, on a background of bright blue. It was a suitable homage: the colour will be familiar to all Colette customers as the shade on the store’s carrier bags.
Sophistication and elegance in 2010.
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Breaking News on July 12, 2017. (7 years late).
Paris's Colette – 'the trendiest store in the world' – set to close
The concept boutique known for unexpected collaborations and being the only shop that Karl Lagerfeld claims to frequent will shut up shop in December.
Colette, the influential Parisian boutique described as “the trendiest store in the world” by Forbes, has announced it will close its doors in December. The news has been interpreted by fashion insiders as the “end of an era”, and a discouraging sign for bricks-and-mortar shopping.
The store on Rue Saint-Honoré has been at the centre of fashion since it opened its doors in March 1997. Founded by Colette Rousseaux, who still lives above the shop, with her daughter Sarah Andelman as its public face, it is a concept store, a place to hang out and a site of pilgrimage for the fashion crowd. It is flocked to by editors and buyers during show season. Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld, said last year that it’s the only shop he frequents “because they have things no one else has”.
There was little clue that this particular closure was on the cards. Colette is a master of collaborations and was at the centre of a fashion frenzy in June, when Balenciaga – one of the most hyped labels in Paris – partnered with the store to create exclusive pieces, including branded €10 lighters and €35 coffee mugs. During its final four months, collaborations are planned with Sacai, Chanel and Saint Laurent.
Other past partnerships have ranged from Ikea to Hermès and Vespa to Vans shoes. Such a sense of the unexpected has been Colette’s calling card during its two decades in business.
The store’s products make for a carefully curated mix – masterminded by Andelman – across its three floors and 8,000 square feet of retail space. Super-expensive designer goods sit alongside streetwear, magazines, toys, food and music. It is possible to visit and make a purchase whether your budget is meagre or in the millions. The launch of a basement water bar – offering 73 different types of mineral water – was undoubtedly another fashion moment.
A statement released by the brand reads: “As all good things must come to an end … Colette should be closing its doors on December 20th of this year.” It explains that Rousseaux, its founder and namesake, is set to retire: “Colette Rousseaux has reached the time when she would like to take her time, and Colette cannot exist without Colette.”
It is thought that the brand may live on in some capacity online. Creative director Andelman said in March that the revenues had been affected by the reduction in tourist numbers following the terrorist attacks on Paris in 2015, but added that e-commerce was growing.
The brand’s final collaborator, Saint Laurent, is in talks to take over the Colette space from 2018. The Colette statement reads: “We would be proud to have a brand with such history, with whom we have frequently collaborated, taking over our address.” There is also a suggestion that the staff of Colette could now work in the Saint Laurent store.
The news of the closure has been greeted with surprise and sadness on social media. Another Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue have tweeted about it; “Colette closing” was trending on Wednesday when the news broke; while users of Instagram posted an image of two white bubbles, one reading 1997 the other 2017, on a background of bright blue. It was a suitable homage: the colour will be familiar to all Colette customers as the shade on the store’s carrier bags.
Coco Chanel, who lived in an apartment here for 35 years, was probably inspired by the magical shape of the square for the quadrant of her famous Première watch.
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The place Vendôme has been renowned for its fashionable and deluxe hotels such as the Ritz. Many famous dress designers have had their salons in the square. The only two remaining are the shirtmaker Charvet, at number 28, whose store has been on the place Vendôme since 1877, and the couturier Chéruit, at number 21, reestablished in 2008. Since 1718, the Ministry of Justice, also known as the "Chancellerie", is located at the Hotel de Bourvallais located at numbers 11 and 13. Right on the other side of the place Vendôme, number 14 houses the Paris office of JP Morgan, the investment bank, and number 20 the office of Ardian (formerly AXA Private Equity).
After his death in 1990, American artist Keith Haring was cremated and his ashes were sprinkled out on a hillside near Kutztown, except for one handful, that Yoko Ono brought to the place Vendôme because she believed the spirit of Haring had told her to.
In the 1920s, American architect, Alonzo C. Webb worked making advertisements and designs in English for some of the fashionable houses along the place Vendôme.
Place Vendôme was a 1998 movie by Nicole Garcia starring Catherine Deneuve.