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A little fixer-upper in Paris– isn’t it what most of us dream about? Okay okay, so this 300m² Belle Epoque apartment just minutes from les Places Vendome and Place du Marché Saint-Honoré, may just be a little out of budget, but alas, it’s not for sale– it’s for rent! As in, rent it out for the [...]
The other night I tucked myself up in bed and watched Funny Face, the 1957 Gershwin musical starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. New-York fashion photographer, played by Astaire, sets out to find a “new face” for the high fashion magazine Quality and soon enough discovers Audrey Hepburn working as a bookstore clerk in Greenwich village, [...]
The Rothschilds are known as one of the greatest European banking dynasties ever established, amassing the largest private fortune in modern history. The family is less well-known for anything to do with squalor, ruin or decay. But just 5 miles from the Notre-Dame, beyond the lush green lawn of the Edmond de Rothschild park, standing defiantly behind a thick wall of [...]
Unbeknownst to the thousands of passengers that pass through the station each day, right under their feet, between platforms 2 and 3 at the Gare de l’Est lies an old concrete World War II bomb shelter. One of the busiest stations in the heart of Paris, the 19th century terminal is hiding a 120m² wartime bunker [...]
If you’ve lived in Paris at any point during the last decade, it would’ve been impossible not to notice the pixelated mosaics of little aliens popping up all around the city. Elusive French urban artist known only as Invader is the man behind the most globally recognisable street art since Banksy, with his 1970s video [...]
I‘m not the kind of person you’re going to catch waiting in a museum queue that goes round the block to get my fix of history and culture. So here’s Nessy’s pick of museums off the beaten path in Paris… 1. Musée des Arts Forains (The Fairground Art Museum) Images by Julie Lefort Little-known even [...]
For dreaming purposes only… (a bit of real-estate p0rn never hurt anyone). The Aristocats are house hunting again … A seven bedroom apartment near Avenue Foch More details here … A Five bedroom townhouse in the 16th arrondissement More details via Sotheby’s … A modernised 4 bedroom Private townhouse in the suburbs More [...]
The Ritz Hotel in Paris is arguably a museum in itself with all the clandestine history that went on behind those doors, but it turns out the hotel has been hiding one very expensive piece of art history in particular all these years– not in a dusty attic but in Coco Chanel’s former suite no [...]
A few months back, I came across a website called Paris 1914, a collection of color photography made in Paris using Autochrome Lumière technology between 1914 and 1918. A wealthy banker of the time, Albert Kahn commissioned four photographers to create an archive of the period using the technique based on a series of color filters made from microscopic grains of [...]
High above the grand boutique windows of number 24 rue Faubourg Saint-Honoré, where Charles-Émile Hermès relocated his father’s harness workshop in 1880 and first began to retail saddlery, there is an exquisite little-known paradise that overlooks the rooftops of Paris. I stumbled upon some insider photographs by Quentin Bertoux of this secret little Parisian terrace, so let’s take a [...]
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This breathtaking pool of glistening turquoise water under creamy ecclesiastical stone vaulting is
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