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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.
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.
'Bar-café gay avec terrasse, musique, happy hour, servant cocktails, salades, hamburgers et grillades.'
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 square dominates constitutes all that remains of the old church of St Jacques-la-Boucheerie, destroyed in 1797.
It was built between 1508 and 1522, has a height of 52 meters (171 ft) and is in pure flaming Gothic style.
The statue at the top of the tower represents S. Tiago Maior (work by Chenillon, 1870).
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Octagonally, simple and austere, it is surrounded by palaces with large arches on the ground floor, projecting parts, pediments and crowns, and numerous dormant features on the roofs.
Monet's works are there.
It was built by Daglane and Louvet, it has a 240 meter façade and Ionic columns 20 meters high.
Currently, important art exhibitions are held here.
More 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.
Hey Hey
Nº1 2010 - the Hits of Summer
When music saves people from melancholy.
I had seen this man two other times in Paris.
When I was sitting in that bar in Paris, I said, "Hey Hey" and he stopped to talk. A sweet person.
L'Opéra Nacional de Paris in the background.
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The city of Paris has notable examples of architecture of every period, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. It was the birthplace of the Gothic style, and has important monuments of the French Renaissance, Classical revival, the Flamboyant style of the reign of Napoleon III, the Belle Époque, and the Art Nouveau style.
The great Exposition Universelle (1889) and 1900 added Paris landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower and Grand Palais.
In the 20th century, the Art Deco style of architecture first appeared in Paris, and Paris architects also influenced the postmodern architecture of the second half of the century.
Two fantastic characters (or simply Characters) is a monumental sculpture by Joan Miró. It is one of the works of art in La Défense, in France.
The work is located on Place de la Défense, in front of the Les Quatre Temps shopping center.
It represents two characters, a dozen meters high, in polyester resin, painted in blue, red and yellow.
The work was inaugurated in 1976.
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Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981.
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."
Beer + Eiffel + Paris
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Kronenbourg Brewery is a brewery founded in 1664 by Geronimus Hatt in the Free Imperial City of Straßburg, Holy Roman Empire (today Strasbourg, France). The name comes from the area where the brewery relocated in 1850. The company is owned by the Carlsberg Group. The premium brand (and the one sold in the greatest volumes outside France) is Kronenbourg 1664, a 5.5% abv pale lager.
Place Vendôme is the living room of Paris.
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At the centre of the square's long sides, Hardouin-Mansart's range of Corinthian pilasters breaks forward under a pediment, to create palace-like fronts. The arcading of the formally rusticated ground floors does not provide an arcaded passageway as at place des Vosges. The architectural linking of the windows from one floor to the next, and the increasing arch of their windowheads, provide an upward spring to the horizontals formed by ranks of windows. Originally the square was accessible by a single street and preserved an aristocratic quiet, except when the annual fair was held there. Then Napoléon opened the rue de la Paix, and the 19th century filled the place Vendôme with traffic. It was only after the opening in 1875 of the Palais Garnier on the other side of the rue de la Paix that the centre of the Parisian fashionable life started gravitating around the rue de la Paix and the place Vendôme.
Restoring.
The original column was started in 1806 at Napoleon's direction and completed in 1810. It was modelled after Trajan's Column, to celebrate the victory of Austerlitz; its veneer of 425 spiralling bas-relief bronze plates was made out of cannon taken from the combined armies of Europe, according to his propaganda (the usual figure given is hugely exaggerated: 180 cannon were actually captured at Austerlitz.) These plates were designed by the sculptor Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret and executed by a team of sculptors including Jean-Joseph Foucou, Louis-Simon Boizot, François Joseph Bosio, Lorenzo Bartolini, Claude Ramey, François Rude, Corbet, Clodion, Julie Charpentier, and Henri-Joseph Ruxthiel. A statue of Napoleon, bare-headed, crowned with laurels and holding a sword in his right hand and a globe surmounted with a statue of Victory (as in Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker) in his left hand, was placed atop the column.[citation needed]
In 1816, taking advantage of the Allied occupying force, a mob of men and horses had attached a cable to the neck of the statue of Napoleon atop the column, but it had refused to budge – one woman quipped: "If the Emperor is as solid on his throne as this statue is on its column, he's nowhere near descending the throne". After the Bourbon Restoration the statue, though not the column, was pulled down and melted down to provide the bronze for the recast equestrian statue of Henry IV on the Pont Neuf (as was bronze from sculptures on the Column of the Grande Armée at Boulogne-sur-Mer), though the statuette of Victory is still to be seen in the salon Napoléon of the Hôtel des Monnaies (which also contains a model of the column and a likeness of Napoleon's face copied from his death mask). A replacement statue of Napoléon in modern dress (a tricorn hat, boots and a redingote), however, was erected by Louis-Philippe, and a better, more augustly classicizing one by Louis-Napoléon (later Napoléon III).
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A sexy chic deeply rooted in modernity, showing audacity, surprise and impertinence. Chantal Thomass is at her best in the sensual art of Haute Lingerie and prove to the women they can be seducing, seductresses, and beautiful with these little pleasures.
A fashionable sexy lingerie universe.
A sexy chic deeply rooted in modernity, showing audacity, surprise and impertinence. Chantal Thomass is at her best in the sensual art of Haute Lingerie and prove to the women they can be seducing, seductresses, and beautiful with these little pleasures.
From 1873, the Eliseu Palace became the official residence of the various presidents that the republic had.
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The Élysée Palace is the official residence of the President of the French Republic. Completed in 1722, it was initially built for Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne. It was used as the office of the French President for the first time in 1848. The current building contains the presidential office and residency, as well as the meeting place of the Council of Ministers. It is located near the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, the name Élysée deriving from Elysian Fields, the place of the blessed dead in Greek mythology. Important foreign visitors are hosted at the nearby Hôtel de Marigny, a palatial residence.
The city of Paris has notable examples of architecture of every period, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. It was the birthplace of the Gothic style, and has important monuments of the French Renaissance, Classical revival, the Flamboyant style of the reign of Napoleon III, the Belle Époque, and the Art Nouveau style.
The great Exposition Universelle (1889) and 1900 added Paris landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower and Grand Palais.
In the 20th century, the Art Deco style of architecture first appeared in Paris, and Paris architects also influenced the postmodern architecture of the second half of the century.
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