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Discover Five Highly Collectable Living, French Artists?Unique And Affordab
2008-02-22 06:28:00 By Rose Bourne In the 19th and 20th century many French artists left their undeniable influence on the art world. Artists such as Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet and Jean Miro created a style so unique that books have been written about them and their works. Their art hangs in museums ...
By: eArtFair .com
Absinthe, the crazy drink
2008-01-14 11:34:00 Today we are going to talk about Absinthe because somehow it was part of French history through artists and Parisian intellectuals ... no other drinks have had a such romantic story and have been prohibited with so much fervor.From ancient times until the 19th century, Artemisia Absinthium is an ingredient in many medicines. Also vermifuge and antiseptic, its applications are many.This drug use could go on much longer if one day, a strange encounter was made in Switzerland at the end of the 18th century. An adjutant bought the formula from a doctor.He went into partnership with his son-in-law Henri Louis Pernod who will forever be associated with absinthe.For 30 years, absinthe remains a regional drink until the conquest of Algeria by France. Effective against malaria and dysentery, absinthe becomes popular with soldiers. When they return from Algeria, everyone starts to enjoy the drink.The drink also moved across France for more than half a century, with its ritual of the spoon.In ...
By: Ruyi Travel Book
You can't miss that store in Paris!
2007-11-19 11:11:00 Have you heard of Lilli Bulle? If not, it's a shame but no worries it isn't too late!Lilli Bulle is an adorable store in the 11th arrondissement, on 3 rue de la Forge Royale.They sell objects and clothes for kids at the store.But the two girls - Anne Christelle Beauvois and Anne Rodes - also have a blog.The store was opened on September 2000 and the first blog entry is from March 2005, so quite early for a French blog. The blog is called it the Blogobulle!You can buy, order, discuss and comment the objects online.Very convenient for those who can't come to Paris to shop. There are pictures of the items and you can ask all the questions you want.They also sell handbags for grown-ups like us.This is the place to go for your Christmas gifts!
By: Ruyi Travel Book
Same Paper Play Again
2007-11-13 11:59:00 "Same Paper Play Again" is a new design object brought to us by the French designer Clement Eloy.Because recycling is a responsible and major act for our planet the artist find a less boring way to do it. It's even fun.Via 18h34.com
By: Ruyi Travel Book
Viaduc des Arts - A garden in the city of Paris
2007-11-12 10:47:00 Viaduc des Arts is one of these places that we don't talk about enough and it's a shame because it's awesome! That's what I think everytime I pass by there.In the early 1980's, rather than destroy a work of art and erase the capital's industrial memory, the city of Paris decides to build a planted promenade of 4,5kms where the old Paris-Bastille railroad used to be during the XIXth century.In 1990, Paris decided to conduct all operations related to rehabilitating the Viaduc; a project centered around the theme of artistic professions and building several "real estate islands" with living spaces, businesses and offices.It's a 3,7 hectares between Bastille and Reuilly, centered around the old SNCF Viaduc.There are 2 restaurants, 2 parkings lots, a 1,5km promenade - called la Promenade Plantée - and 45 amazing working studios.Since the rehabilitation of its vaults and the creation of the Viaduc des Arts, the Avenue Daumesnil became a prestigious window of the French art's craft...
By: Ruyi Travel Book
What you have always wanted to know about Edith Piaf
2007-08-03 13:11:00 Edith Piaf was one of France's most beloved singers and became a national icon.Her singing reflected her tragic life, with her specialty being the poignant ballad performed in a heartbreaking voice.The great love of Piaf's life, the married boxer Marcel Cerdan, died in an October 1949 plane crash, on a flight to see Piaf. Their affair made international headlines.Piaf was later married twice. Her first husband was Jacques Pills, a singer. Her second husband, Greek Théo Sarapo, was a 26-year-old hairdresser-turned-singer and actor, 20 years younger than Piaf. They married in 1962.In 1951 she was involved in a car crash along with Aznavour, breaking an arm and two ribs, and thereafter had difficulty breaking serious morphine and alcohol addictions.At the early age of 47, Piaf died of liver cancer on the French Riviera, on October 1963, the same day that her friend Jean Cocteau died. She had slipped in and out of consciousness for the first two months after her marriage to Sarapo, be...
By: Ruyi Travel Book
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