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Posted on 19th January 202321st January 2023 by sjohns

Catsuited, rebooted

Veteran French director Olivier Assayas has spun his cult 90s film Irma Vep into a sexy, funny and dizzyingly multilayered TV series…

Posted on 18th January 202318th January 2023 by sjohns

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…

Posted on 17th January 202317th January 2023 by sjohns

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…

Posted on 17th January 202317th January 2023 by sjohns

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…

Posted on 11th January 202312th January 2023 by sjohns

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…

Posted on 11th January 202311th January 2023 by sjohns

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…

Posted on 10th January 202310th January 2023 by sjohns

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…

Posted on 10th January 202310th January 2023 by sjohns

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…

Posted on 30th December 202110th January 2023 by sjohns

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.

Posted on 15th December 202010th January 2023 by sjohns

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…

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