Eden Morfaux is sending a shout out into the streets of Paris. Or, better, the ultimate tool for a shout out: A series of eight gleaming, white pulpits displayed for a day at Le Cube Rouge, normally a boutique showing classic 50s/60s furniture (Charles Eames, Arne Jacobeson, George Nelson), then deposited on a corner or […]

Are you already feeling on the fringe of the upcoming Paris fashion week? Can’t get the invite to your favorite show… don’t know where to spot your favorite designer…. it’s enough to make any fashion whore go to church for one hail Mary!
Don’t worry, mes petites, skip the trip to Notre Dame.
Aside from continuously checking […]

The honeymoon is over. When I said that we were quitting our jobs and moving to Paris everyone was screaming “Yea Team Midwest!” Now that two months have gone by it’s all about “So really….what are you doing?” Well, I‘ll tell you what I’m doing, if you must know -I’m making a robot. That’s right, […]

The Musée de l’Orangerie, as its name implies, started out as an old covered orange grove in the Tuileries gardens in the nineteenth century. In 1927 Monet was invited to install his “Water Lilies” there, which he had been working on since 1914 at Giverny. In 2000, the museum closed for what ended up being […]

My name is Richard and I am a chocoholic.
If there was a 12-step program for chocoholics, I guess I just passed the first step.
Paris has some of the best chocolate shops in the world and I can sniff out a new one faster than a drug-sniffing German Shepard can find a kilo of cocaine at […]

Tom Ford, Gucci designer-turned-independant fashion tycoon, lashed out on the Paris fashion world during London’s fashion week. According to Susie Rushton of the British newspaper The Independant TF gave this statement:
Quite honestly in terms of French culture, if you think about what the French are producing in terms of fashion or architects or painters or […]

I V Y paris is has once again been invited to organise a one-day exhibit at the Louvre on Sunday October 14, 2007. Our audience is 5000 people who are attending Expatica’s conference on living in Paris, “I’m Not A Tourist”.
The art show will take place in the open space at the entrance to the […]

In you visited France already, you may have heard of a region called La Bretagne, located in the west of the country (where the Mont Saint-Michel is). Despite its rain rate (!), it’s a beautiful region which kept a pretty strong identity (some people there still speak the local language). To promote their region, they […]

I attended the opening of the new Adolfo Dominguez superstore the other night, drinking Champagne and hobnobbing with the international well-heeled crowd, who were speaking Spanish, French, and English. Dominguez is one of Spain’s top designers and the flagship Paris store is a stunning showcase for the chic and surprisingly affordable line of men’s and […]

No, really.
La Cave à Bulles, a “beer boutique” just around the corner from le Centre Pompidou, hosts regular free beer tastings that are not to be missed. And although they carry a few Belgian lambics, etc., their real specialty is artisanal microbrews from all over France.
But wait — France produces wine, not beer, right? Wrong! […]