A vernissage is typically the opening soirée of a new show at an art gallery, and in Paris you could organize your entire social life around just attending the many that take place throughout the city every week.

These can also be creatively hybrid events, like the two I went to last week.

“Seats in the City, an invitation to settle down …” opened on November 4 at the stylepixie gallery (2 rue Edouard Vasseur, Ivry sur Seine, M° Pierre et Marie Curie), an English hair salon that doubles as an art gallery in a loft collective just outside Paris. The show features nine painters from America, Ireland, Serbia and France: Aurore Pallet, Charlotte Salvanès, Sandra Detourbet, Nugent Koscielny, Emily Walcker, Marcus McAllister, Jérôme Quèbre, Filip Mirazovic and Tom J. Byrne. The packed vernissage was also the two-year anniversary of the gallery, so there was birthday cake and some amazing live jazz singing by one of the stylists, Lexi DeRock. The exhibition continues through January 10, sur RDV.