Month: November 2020

Our favorite galleries in the Marais

The Marais and its surroundings are a gold mine for adepts and art lovers. Paris Select presents you the art galleries not to be missed to embellish your Parisian walks… Galerie Maria Lund Located in the heart of the Marais, the Galerie Maria Lund highlights and promotes works that are profound in a philosophical sense and raise real existential questions. The resulting responses are intended to be more suggestive than imposing. Alongside the temporary exhibitions which follow one another throughout the year - for which the gallery sometimes collaborates with institutions - the gallery can receive artists for concerts and reading conferences. Galerie Maria Lund, 48 rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris Galerie Schwab Beaubourg Created in 2011 by Thierry Schwab and his son Edouard, the Schwab Beaubourg gallery is housed in a beautiful 170 m2 space near the Pompidou center. It defends contemporary figurative painting and sculpture, by presenting leading artists such as the sculptor Marc Petit, continuously exhibited as well as the painters Safet Zec, Antoni ...

The most beautiful advent calendars to offer to gourmets

It is now an annual meeting. Each end of the year, brands compete in creativity to offer advent calendars, with ever more original designs and content. Whether you are a great chocolate lover, a terrines lover or a tea lover, you will find what you are looking for in this selection, which can be found at the Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette Gourmet… Something to feast on while you wait for Christmas! - Kusmi Tea To wait until Christmas, Kusmi Tea offers a superb advent calendar, in shades of green-gold. This sparkling edition conceals 24 surprises combining the brand's delicious signature teas (Anastasia, Earl Gray, Alain Ducasse white tea, Tropical White…), light and fragrant rooibos and organic herbal teas. Two essential accessories to prepare a good tea also come to decorate this box, to discover throughout the month of December. Price: € 34,90, available at www.kusmitea.com - Dammann Frères Dressed in red, the Dammann Frères advent calendar displays a starry sky background in which we can see the emblematic monuments…

A minaudière with his effigy: the unique gift signed Pellegrino x Marc-Antoine Coulon

Containment requires, the creator Renaud Pellegrino has just unveiled his collaboration with Marc-Antoine Coulon, digitally, on his website. For this campaign, the famous fashion illustrator sketched nine faces of actresses on Pellegrino clutches. From next December, the Pellegrino Paris boutique will highlight a unique event of its kind: the launch of an exhibition presenting the model collection "Julia", an elegant evening minaudière, the shape of which evokes a box of matches… This iconic piece of leather goods has been reinterpreted and revisited by Marc-Antoine Coulon, who painted the faces of nine legendary actresses on it. From Fanny Ardant to Anouk Aimée via Frédérique Bel, Sophie Marceau, Charlize Theron and Jane Fonda, all have agreed to take part in this project. Renowned actresses who, through their grace and elegance, embody luxury, sensuality, absolute femininity, and whose talent thus united gives strength to the creation of these two daring and resolutely modern artists. “What an honor and a delicious privilege that…

Exceptional art galleries in the 8th arrondissement

The Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Avenue Matignon, rue de Penthièvre and rue de Miromesnil remain the stronghold of great antique dealers and prestigious art galleries. In a spirit of tradition and renewal, art dealers with global influence have sometimes settled there for several generations and rub shoulders with famous foreign galleries recently installed. In this article, we reveal the most beautiful of the 8th arrondissement. Galeries Bartoux Among the many art galleries in Paris, this one is located in the heart of a mythical avenue, the Matignon. Galeries Bartoux specializes in contemporary art. Fostering new artistic trends, it makes us discover works from surrealism and new realism as well as the biggest names in Pop Art and Street Art: Dali, Arman, Picasso, Andy Warhol… A selection of works by great masters and contemporary artists to admire in their new Parisian space of 500m2, inaugurated last summer. Galeries Bartoux, 5 avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris. 01 42 66 36 63 Tajan For 30 years, Tajan has been the unmissable event for collectors. ...

10 essential books to discover

The most beautiful trips are hidden in the books. Jean d'Ormesson Reading offers the possibility from his sofa to live several lives… We are not going to deprive ourselves of it! Here are the 10 recommendations from Marie-Laure Vallée, from the Littérature et Compagnie blog. - “A castle for Hollywood” by Olivier Minne, published by Séguier Olivier Minne invites us to push open the door of the Castle on Sunset Boulevard, a baroque hotel in the heart of Los Angeles. Its fresco inhabited by whimsical and glamorous characters, brings us to the heart of the myth embodied by Hollywood. - "The scandalous, the novel by Louise Labé" by Michel Peyramaure, published by Calmann-Lévy A fictionalized biography of the greatest poet of the Renaissance who through her verses dared to express her desires as a libertine woman. Courageous ! - “Haute-couture” by Florence Delay, published by Gallimard Associating a dress with a life, you had to think about it. This is the challenge that Florence Delay took on by investigating the works of the painter Zurbaran and his models. Exciting ! - “My literary Paris” by François Busnel,…

The most beautiful Christmas logs to enhance your New Year's Eve

The famous Yule log represents THE culinary tradition that cannot be escaped during the end of the year celebrations. Here is a selection of the most beautiful creations of pastry chefs and other renowned chefs… You will be in for a treat! - La bûche de Cyril Lignac Tastes: This year, at Cyril Lignac, we find a Black Forest Christmas Log twisting this famous cherry dessert into a delicious log… Here, chocolate biscuit, light kirsch cream, Morello cherry compote, chocolate mousse and vanilla milk cream blend subtly. The whole thing, sprinkled with chocolate shavings. The price: 45 € for 6 to 8 people. Where can we find it? In Cyril Lignac shops and on his website, here. - The log of Nolinski Tastes: Shaped like a majestic fir tree resting on its wooden log, the log of the Nolinski hotel takes height this winter! Under its starry white coat, we discover a melting praline, an almond biscuit, and a…

Cédric Grolet x Netflix: the unique collaboration to discover at Galeries Lafayette

Until December 31, Netflix and Galeries Lafayette invite you to discover the universe of “Voyage to the Moon”, the latest production from the streaming giant. In the Parisian department store, you can also find the gourmet pastry shop of chef Cédric Grolet, inspired by the feature film. To promote its latest production "Voyage to the Moon", Netflix has put the small dishes in the big ones. The pitch of this family Christmas movie? Fei Fei is a young girl passionate about science. Endowed with unwavering determination, she set herself the goal of building a rocket to go to the Moon and prove the existence of a legendary Lunar Goddess… A magical adventure rich in adventures that Galeries Lafayette wanted put forward! If you can binge-watcher the realization of Glen Keane since last October 23, it was surrounded by a beautiful promotional campaign: a pop-up store at the entrance of Galeries Lafayette Haussmann in which you can dive in the world of cartoons as well as ... discover the gourmet creation signed Cédric Grolet ...