Parisiennes have long known that the key to leaving a good lasting impression is how fabulous you look as you walk out the door. This was the city in which the bustle was invented, after all. Dos à la Mode (Back in Fashion), a new exhibition at the Musée Bourdelle, the atelier museum of late-nineteenth-century […]
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My Paris: Illustrator Clémentine Campardou
Having moved her life from Paris to Sydney several years ago, Clémentine Campardou now well appreciates the yearning much of the rest of the world has for the City of Light; while she has become very much a Sydneysider (if she’s not in her atelier Blule you’ll probably find her surfing the waves of Bondi […]
Five of the Best: Paris Museum Cafés
In France, food is art on a plate. So it makes sense that some of the most memorable eating experiences can be found in some of Paris’s most delectable museums … Rose Bakery, Musée de la Vie Romantique Rose Bakery, with its perfumed teas and olde-worlde cakes (think marble-swirled, berry slathered in pink icing, and […]
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 […]