If you happen to be in Paris this coming weekend — the 21st & 22nd September — you’re in for a treat, because you’ll have the chance to explore a Paris that is usually tucked away behind closed carriage doors. The European Heritage Days see a variety of monuments and government buildings open their doors […]
Grand Palais
Five of the Best: Paris Museum Restaurants
Paris’s museum cafés are gorgeously inspired, but the city’s museum restaurants really take the concept of art on a plate, in asethetically pleasing surroundings, to a whole new level of wonderful. Whether an extravagant excuse to rest your feet in the middle of a marathon museum session, or a genius way to keep the arty […]
Where to See Art Nouveau in Paris
Art Nouveau (“new art”) was an ornamental design movement that flourished in Paris at the turn of the twentieth century. It enjoyed mainstream appeal for only around a decade, but its impact was forceful — it was a direct contrast to, and defiance of, the classicism that had kept Paris aesthetically in line for the […]