Tag: France
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Style Moment | Paris balcony
“You can’t escape the past in Paris, and yet what’s so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn’t seem to burden.” Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) American poet
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Paris | BHV | One Stop Shopping
Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville, more commonly known as BHV, is the store in Paris where you can buy everything. Name anything, go ahead…they have it. Not only do they have it, but they have it in large numbers, and it’s fabulous.
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Paris | Le petit-déjeuner complète
When I’m in Paris, I have the same breakfast every morning at Le Comptoir Des Saints-Pères…”le petit-déjeuner complète.”
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Style Moment | Still life, Paris
“Beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend.” Roger Scruton (born 1944) British author and philosopher
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Eye on Design | Paris | La mêmes choses
On a sunny day in Paris, the Place de la Bastille brocante (flea market) lined the River Seine. There were countless treasures, but I was particularly intrigued by the collections of like objects…in French, la mêmes choses, the same things. Here’s a photo feast.
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Style Moment | Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, France
“Less is more. God is in the details” Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) German architect
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Style Moment | L’église d’Eymet, France
“For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come.” Bible, Song of Solomon
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Eye on Design | Black and White in Color
Some of the most intriguing photos I’ve taken in color have turned out to be black and white. Without color, the graphic patterns and unique shapes of the world reveal themselves…and they can be every bit as captivating as an explosion of color.
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Eye on Design | Paris | Tied Up
This chair in a Paris shoe store is cleverly upholstered in neckties. Recycling by design.
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Local characters
Cat nap, Saint-Émilion, France I meet a lot of characters in my travels. Here are some photos of the furry, feathered kind…they always make me smile.
