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Parisian rooftops

View from my window in my apartment at Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris

While some people are fascinated by skyscrapes and other extraordinatry views I was and still I’m fascinated by the view over the Parisian rooftops. No building ressembles the other, time and history has clearly left signs…the window shutters are my favourite ones (please let them never be changed into ugly new ones)…and the “l’œil de bœuf “s in zinc…I remember when we were selling those in the gallery I used to work at. People use them as decoration in homes, by putting a mirror in them. Sometimes I wish I could turn into Mary Poppins, open my umbrella and just fly in the sky above all these beautiful rooftops in Paris :-)

“Chem Cheminée Chem Cheminée Chem Chem Tchéri,
Pour avoir d’ la chance, prends ta chance telle qu’elle vient.
Chem Cheminée Chem Cheminée Chem Chem Tchéro,
Dans vos mains je trouve chaque fois mon étoile d’or.“

(Mary Poppins, “Chem Cheminée”)

View from my window in my apartment at Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris. You can see the two towers from the Saint Sulpice church and the Montparnasse tower.

Rue Jacob

Rue Jacob is a charming street in St Germain in Paris and since there was a period I was working at Ladurée Bonaparte that is situated in the intersection of Rue Jacob and Rue Bonaparte, I was walking on Rue Jacob pretty often. While working at Ladurée and I had my daily breaks I always used to go out and have a 15 minutes of walk exploring the area and looking in the display windows of the boutiques…..often dreaming about the beautiful Hervé Léger dresses in the Hervé L.Leroux boutique next to Ladurée…or just being fascinated by the beautiful buildings…decorated with typical French shutters, antique lanterns, boutique signs and the building facade covered with the dirt of exhaust fumes, they all showed signs of the years that had passed….

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Cherry blossom trees in Paris

Paris in pink! The beautiful cherry blossom trees are finally in bloom…..

Cherry blossom trees in Paris

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Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs exhibition in Paris

A few days ago I wrote about the Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs exhibition in Paris. Jorge Ayala, the founder and director of [Ay]A Studio, an International design studio based in Paris, has taken some beautiful photos and covered the exhibition very well and I’m happy he gave me the permission to share his photos with my blogreaders.

The exhibition is more or less comparing the past and the present, the founder (Louis Vuitton) and the actual Creative Director (Marc Jacobs)…click here to read more about the exhibition and have a look on the beautiful photos below:

Photo credits: [Ay]A Studio , [Ay]A Studio Facebook page

Photo credits: [Ay]A Studio , [Ay]A Studio Facebook page

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Infatuated by Paris

View from my French balcony at Avenue Carnot in Paris

In 2011 I was living at Avenue Carnot in Paris, with other words, I was the neighbour of L’Arc de Triomphe. Having that beautiful monument just outside the window couldn’t be more Paris! Imagine opening up the windows and just be infatuated of living and feeling Paris…the noises from the cars from the streets and around L’Arc de Triomphe….the warm feeling of the sun that was reflected in the windows in the opposite buildings…..listening to the people down the street… leaning towards the French balcony and just seizing the moment was the first thing I did every morning. It was like having my morning dose of Paris ;-) (and the very polluted air)

View from my French balcony at Avenue Carnot in Paris

Mirror, mirror….

Solli 2011

Me in the late Spring of 2011 when I was living in an apartment at Avenue Carnot, right behing L’Arc de Triomphe. When this photo was taken I was about to go and visit my dear friend Jo who was living just a few blocks away. Living in the 17th arrondissement in Paris was quite a difference from St Germain (6th)…but Ladurée at Champs-Elysées was just minutes away (even though it could never replace my Ladurée Bonaparte in St Germain) and Jardin des Tuileries was not that far either….and then I was dangerously too close to le triangle d’or …which was not financially good for me if you know what I mean ;-) But strategically I was very well positioned for the Fashion Weeks in Paris when I was taking lots of photos…

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Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs

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I so wish I was in Paris right now…would have loved to visit the Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs Exhibition they are having at Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

Extract from the website of Les Arts Décoratifs about the exhibition: “This exhibition tells the stories of two men, Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs (artistic director of LV), and will highlight their contributions to the fashion world. How did they succeed in taking the pulse of their respective periods to innovate and take an entire industry forward? How did these two personalities, each with their own language, appropriate cultural phenomena and codes to write the history of contemporary fashion? An analysis rather than a retrospective, this parallel Vuitton-Jacobs comparison will provide new insight into the fashion system during its pivotal periods, beginning with its industrialisation and ending with its globalisation, focussing also on its artistic professions and crafts, technological advances, stylistic creations and artistic collaborations. It will also be homecoming for Louis Vuitton, who set up shop only a stone’s throw from the Louvre, the home of his first great patron, Empress Eugénie. Over a century separates Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs, but both come together in the excellence of their creativity.”

Exhibition: Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs
Date: 9 March–16 september 2012

Les Arts Décoratifs
107, rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
France

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Asparagus…

Asparagus

I love aspargus! I bought some yesterday…boiled them for a couple of minutes and then topped them with grated lemon peel, grated parmesan cheese..and served them with egg, salmon and mashed avocado with red onion…. The asparagus were delicious but still not comparable to the ones I was served at my favourite Italian restaurant in Paris, Oenosteria, or Mama shelter in Paris.

Asparagus

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Paris blog

"Sous le chapeau" by LAPIS Andras, this statue of a seated woman can be seen outside the Hungarian Embassy in Paris at 92 rue Bonaparte

Just because I will not be living permanently in Paris doesn’t mean I will not blog about Paris anymore. I still have so many photos to publish and yet so many stories to tell, so don’t worry on that part ;-) And I will go to Paris a couple of times before this year ends…for short weekend visits…so I will have even more things to write about. With other words…the Paris blog continues ;-)

Paris – je reviens bientôt

Me in Jardin des Tuileries in Paris

Ever since November last year it feels I’ve spent more time in the AIR than on the ground. I went for a short visit in Stockholm and then back again to Paris…then I went to Asia….then I went back to Paris and then back to Sweden and so on. I’m a good client for the airline companies, that’s for sure ;-)
You must be wondering what I’m doing and so have I until I’ve decided to leave Paris for a while. I love Paris and when I moved there in 2010 I did it with the intention to stay there. But before I settle down for good I want to check off some things on my to-do-list-of-my-life and so I decided to move back to Sweden for a couple of months. To be continued……

Me walking in Jardin des Tuileries in Paris

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Mirror, mirror….

Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs

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