🥐 A vintage wonderland, croissant curiosities & Richter revelations! A Week in Paris
A new selection of stuff to see, do and love in Paris (and at the Saint-Ouen Flea Market) this week. Celebrating Paris Makers and the strange, new, true & beautiful, forever!
🗝️ Lost among the antique and design galleries of the Carré Rive Gauche, Salima Boufelfel and Roberto Cowan bring their extraordinary vintage wonderland Desert Vintage to Paris. Here, each carefully curated garment sweeps you up in an almost spiritual quest to connect the past to the future. 18 rue de Beaune, 75007
✏️ Two great new shows at the Musée Picasso : the late Philip Guston, like a painterly Kafka or perhaps Gogol, fills the ground floor and basement with grotesque humour, dark energy and expressive power, while upstairs, the resolutely anti-authoritarian Raymond Pettibon presents a scathing portrait of a nihilistic and violent American society.
🥐 We’re obsessed with the new “scratch-and-sniff” scented Croissant au Beurre stamp just released by La Poste for international letters (€2.10).
🏨 In the heart of Pigalle, a web of inspired collaborations between artisans and artists brings the new Hôtel Massé to life with a warm, intergenerational and multicultural spirit. A restaurant-bar Trente Paris is set to open soon!
👳🏽 Bangla Begum founder Fanny Boucher demonstrates through her spectacular “poetico-political” collections that jewellery is a medium, a shield, a talisman, sometimes a weapon, and always a story. Now open at 66 rue de Saintonge, 75003.
🪑 To mark the centenary of the 1925 International Exhibition of Decorative Arts, the Mobilier National celebrates the evolution of contemporary living through visionary design with Les Nouveaux Ensembliers – a carte blanche to a new generation of French architect-designers to imagine the “Embassy of Tomorrow”.
✨ The world’s greatest living painter Gerhard Richter (b.1932) receives an unprecedented survey spanning a lifetime of creation at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. The show moves from early photo-based paintings to his haunting final abstractions such as Birkenau and concludes with drawings since 2017, when he abandoned painting. Opens Friday!