The Louvre heist, Jazz Age glam and new tables! A Week in Paris
We’re back with a new selection of stuff to see, do and love in Paris this week. Celebrating Paris Makers and the strange, new, true & beautiful, forever!
👑 In the haze of the Paris Art Week hangover, the Louvre heist is keeping us on the edge of our seats. Yesterday morning, Paris Match reported that the French gendarmerie had arrested two people in connection with the crime, also revealing that the furniture hoist had, in fact, been stolen – in broad daylight, in a town called Louvres! Not only had Eugénie’s crown been left at the scene, but so had a glove and other items smeared with DNA. And who is the man in the fedora (“dressed like an end-of-19th-century guy”, as the photographer Thibault Camus described him), and was it an inside job? Following the spoofs and speculations going viral has been half the fun – from French Culture Minister Rachida Dati trying on the haul (via AI) to our friend the illustrator Jessie Kanelos Weiner, who made a Paris Louvre Heist Costume, downloadable from Etsy.
🎹 A century after Art Deco’s debut at the 1925 International Exhibition, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs celebrates 1925–2025: One Hundred Years of Art Deco, showcasing over a thousand works by Ruhlmann, Eileen Gray, Sonia Delaunay, and Cartier – including a life-size recreation of the Orient Express, whose heyday coincided with the Jazz Age. Just like Louis Vuitton, who opens its archives with 300 rare pieces, from Jeanne Lanvin’s vanity case to Paul Poiret’s personalized trunk, highlighting the dialogue between the brand and the Art Deco style.
🐚 Continuing with this radical new sensibility born in the 1920s and ’30s, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie honours Edward Weston, a trailblazer of modernist photography.
🍕 Elsewhere, Christophe Vasseur has opened La Table next door to his cult bakery Du Pain et Des Idées, serving French-style pizza and other simple, delicious baked dishes with the same attention to quality and flavour we’ve come to expect.
💥And suddenly, everyone’s talking about the local restaurant Les Collonges in the 18th, headed by young chef Pierre-Étienne Leseut – “a revelation,” according to both Paris By Mouth and Emmanuel Rubin for Le Figaro. We can’t wait to try it!