New Design At Bourgogne and Montana Hotel in Paris 10 mars 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Design & Decoration , 1 comment so farFrom last summer, discover the new design of the Bourgogne & Montana lounge and breakfast room, seat down on a Le Corbusier armchair, read a book and avail yourself of this quiet and cosy boutique hotel!
Hôtel Bourgogne & Montana
3 rue de Bourgogne
75007 Paris
Tel : +33 1 45 51 20 22
www.bourgogne-montana.com
bmontana@bourgogne-montana.com
Hotel Madison, an artistic hotel in Paris 9 mars 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Culture, Parcours , 1 comment so farThe Madison Hotel, located in front of the Saint Germain des Prés church and near the Deux Magots Café and the Café de Flore was used by a lot of artists as a residence for themselves or for friends.
The most important is Albert Camus who spent there the end of his life, writing “The Stranger”. The door of the lift of the Madison Hotel is dedicated to him.
Henri Matisse used to put his out-of-town guests at the Madison Hotel.
Boris Pasternak, Russian writer of “Doctor Zhivago”, was at the Madison during June 1935 for the International Congress of Writers for the Culture Safe which took place at the Palais de la Mutualité.
Peggy Guggenheim spent 3 weeks at the hotel in January 1938 (source: Mistress of Modernism – The Life of Peggy Guggenheim).
Maurice Hurand Hotels love Vlaminck, A Fauvist Instinct 7 mars 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Culture, Parcours , add a commentFrom February 20th to July 20th 2008
This exhibition brings together works of the period 1900-1915, from Maurice de Vlaminck’s (1876-1958) earliest known paintings - Vlaminck’s career started when he was 17, but none of his juvenilia has been preserved - in which he already asserted his characteristic violence, down to the works produced at the beginning of the First World War, which reflect his contemporary research on the rendering of space.
An overview of Vlaminck’s production at that time reveals the key part he played in the renewal of painting which started in the early XXth century, the inventiveness of the research he undertook with Derain and which made Chatou one of the most active centres of that renewal.
Vlaminck’s work, during that time of important questioning and aesthetic transformations, ought to be considered both through its relation with the post-impressionistic generation that had preceded him (Van Gogh, Gauguin, the Nabis, Cézanne, Signac) and for his tremendous audacity which allowed for all sorts of excess in expressive gesture, colour paroxysm and selective deformation: “I heightened all the tones, I transposed all the feelings I could perceive into my orchestration of pure colours. I was a tender, wild at heart barbarian” (Dangerous Corner, 1929).
Hotels near the Luxembourg Museum: Hotel Madison, Artus Hotel, Buci Hotel
Hotels Maurice Hurand love art and Vlaminck
Hotel de Buci supports Women’s Day 6 mars 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Culture, Parcours , add a commentOn March 8th, France celebrates the women, it is Women’s Day. In the 6th arrondissement, near Hotel de Buci, will take place several events through the week.
On the 8th, from 11am to 5pm, you will be able to discover where Simone de Beauvoir lived in 1943: 60 rue de Seine.
If this brilliant French author and philosopher passionates you, you should go to Place Saint Germain for an exhibition on Simone de Beauvoir, until March 8th.
