Des magasins comme autrefois … 5 mai 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Shopping , add a commentLe livre “Boutiques de toujours, leur histoire et leur âme“, aux éditions Massin, propose de découvrir 55 boutiques qui témoignent du Paris d’autrefois.
Voilà la boutique de soldats de plomb, figurines, maison fondée en 1775.
Toute l’histoire défile en miniature dans les vitrines de “Au plat d’étain”, dans le VIe arrondissement. Ici, les bataillons de soldats sont fabriqués et peints à la main, chacun réalisé avec minutie d’après les détails historiques. Les collectionneurs s’y pressent, et certains petits soldats de plombs ont même déclenché des vocations : le Général de Gaulle, enfant, organisait de gigantesques batailles avec les petits soldats de la rue Guisarde.
Au Plat d’Etain
16 rue Guisarde - 75006 Paris
Lors de votre séjour à l’Hôtel de Buci, arrêtez-vous à cette boutique.
Source: L’internaute.com
Lucinda Timmerman by Bianca Pilet at Colette Paris 11 mars 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Parcours, Shopping , 3 commentsMarch 24th until April 26th 2008
This exhibition traces six years in the professional life of Lucinda Timmerman as seen through the lens of Bianca Pilet. Though separated by age and background, the two have forged both a close friendship and a highly productive working relationship, beginning when Lucinda was a schoolgirl of just 15.
Though just a regular kid from the streets and not by any means a professional model, Bianca Pilet was immediately captivated by the young Lucinda’s strength, beauty and tough, intense attitude. Impressed, she hired Lucinda Timmerman for an I-D Magazine fashion shoot. There was an immediate chemistry. Lucinda became the focus of every image, drawing the viewer into the frame through sheer force of personality.
This shoot marked the start of a fertile time for Bianca. The exhibition documents this long-standing fascination, featuring photographs of Lucinda from fashion, couture, advertising and exhibited work.
It is a personal document as much as it is a record of interesting commercial pursuits. As well as Bianca’s professional pieces and artworks, it features a photo of the four-year old Lucinda, a family snap Bianca included as it shows Lucinda’s vigour clearly present at an incredibly young age.
Bianca Pilet is a fashion photographer and artist. Though she enjoys frequent collaborations with other creatives, she’s also highly respected and successful in her own right. Her career spans fifteen years and includes many high-profile exhibitions. However, this show is perhaps particularly special for Bianca as it marks the release of her first book. Called simply Lucinda Timmerman, it will be available at Colette in a signed limited edition of 250 copies.
Throughout her career Bianca Pilet has made photographs that take courage and patience. She waits, waits to see and pinpoint that one instant that resonates the awkward beauty of natural circumstances. Her composition finds that arrangement that we may rush past without noticing. It’s a moment of heightened verisimilitude. Pilet’s work demonstrates a mastering of two intricate tools of being a photographer: one is the camera, the other subject. To make images of such insight, one must have an eye not only for balance and light, but also for human and natural qualities. Pilet works with her subjects and senses what part of them, what shape of them, what incarnation of them will say the most in a piercing and memorable way. This requires a sensitivity toward form and emotion.
We can sense the defiance and brutal honesty. The images trigger a sensation that Pilet rigorously sets out to record and deliver to us, emotionally stung, making us pause and take notice of ourselves in the frantic hurry of our looking natural.
Colette
213 rue St Honoré
75001 Paris
Hotels Maurice Hurand and Bianca Pilet
Bourgogne Montana, a hotel near the Bon Marche 5 mars 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Shopping , add a commentLocated in the 7th arrondissement not too far from the Bourgogne Montana Hotel, the Bon Marché is the first department store or is considered as such.
The store was founded in 1838 by the Videau Brothers. Marguerite and Aristide Boucicaut buy the Videau shares in 1848, who were frightened by the sale ideas of the couple. In 1852, they start the transformation of the store by developing the new concept of department store with a wide assortment, fixed prices, direct access and a mise-en-scene of the goods in the sale area.
In 1869, the Boucicauts embark on another expansion of the store. Joie de vivre begins to show its face once more. People have a new urge to consume…
A room of one thousand seats is set up on the top of the building to accommodate the various parties.
In 1910, at the initiative of Mrs Boucicaut to accommodate their customers is created the Lutetia Hotel, which was the first art deco Hotel in Paris and remains the only palace on the left bank in Paris.
In 1858, the famous French author Emile Zola is fascinated by the frenzy of Parisian lifestyle. When Zola begins writing his novel commerce, it’s the beginning of a very precious work for him: Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies’ Paradise). He picks some of Artistide Boucicaut ’s attitude to create his caracter Octave Mouret.
The Bon Marche is closed to the Bourgogne Montana Hotel.
Photo credit: roboppy
Swim with Laure Manaudou 1 mars 2008
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On Saturday evening, a charity event is organized. The UNICEF and the FFN (Swimming French Federation) for the Nuit de l’Eau 2008, whom Laure Manaudou will be the godmother for the first edition.
Preserving water resources of the planet is paramount. This is why on March 1st, everywhere in France, more than a 100 aquatic centers will exceptionally open their doors from 8pm to midnight, to raise funds for the benefit of Unicef. On the agenda: diving, water polo, initiations, but also drawing competitions, music, an exhibition on the water… everything to inform, entertain and mobilize to celebrate water .
The swimming pool near the Terrass Hotel, in the 17th arrondissement will be part of the event.
Piscine Bernard Lafay
79, rue de la Jonquière
Métro Porte de Clichy
