Category: PARIS
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Catsuited, rebooted
Veteran French director Olivier Assayas has spun his cult 90s film Irma Vep into a sexy, funny and dizzyingly multilayered TV series…
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REVIEW Paris dans l’oeil de ses habitants
As anyone who follows one of its social media accounts will know, Paris ZigZag is a stylish and authoritative guide to the French capital’s culture and history…
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REVIEW The Vanished Collection
“I love riddles and mysteries”, writes the heroine of this real-life detective story, and the one she sets out to solve leads deep into a tangle of European and family histories…
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REVIEW The French Royal Wardrobe
No, not a book about a large cupboard: the Hôtel de la Marine, on place de la Concorde in Paris is a storage facility on an altogether different scale…
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REVIEW Timeless Paris
They could just as easily have called it Time Travel Paris. This beautiful book is a portal into the past, via 18 shops and museums…
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REVIEW A la Recherche du Paris de Marcel Proust
For almost 30 years, French publisher Parigramme has been putting out books on just one inexhaustible subject: Paris. Nearly all are excellent, and a handful are in English…
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REVIEW L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped
Bulgarian-born US artist Christo had the idea to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in fabric as far back as 1962, but permission wasn’t granted until 2019…
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REVIEW Samaritaine
Like the recently reopened Paris store whose story it tells, this handsome title from US-based publisher Assouline is awash with Art Deco gorgeousness and chic…
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Picturing a revolution
It lasted just 72 days, but as a case study in the sheer untamable messiness of history, it’s hard to do better than the Paris Commune of 1871.
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Ader’s winged wonder refreshed
Clément Ader’s gloriously fantastical Avion III, his hallucinatory mash-up of steam engines, variable geometry bat wings and propellor blades like giant feathers…