Showing posts with label Monet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monet. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 December 2013

Musée d'Orsay & The Marais



My sister and I were up bright and early for breakfast at Besnier's, which you might recognise from me raving about it in previous blog-posts. There were more delights to discover in the local area, with the promise of a restful morning in the Musee d'Orsay.



We weren't meant to take photographs, but I satisfied myself with the idea that we didn't take any of the art, and that we spent our due money on postcards of our favourites from Vallotton, Odilon Redon and François Pompon!




View from the roof!



My sister's absolute favourite is the bear statue in the Cafe du Ours. Coming to see it has become a bit of an annual tradition, and I love this photo!







Some of my favourites from Redon, Monet and Caillebotte.

After a lovely, free, calm and very cultured evening in the 7th, we headed over to The Marais to 'Le Loir dans La Theiere', another favourite of mine. If you're planning on experiencing the dreamy slices of cake in this cosy, bobo tea-room then make sure you turn up at around 3pm. It gets so busy that there is a strict lunch-service followed by afternoon tea, and we were turned away to wander around Le Marais until the sweet treats were brought out. But, oh boy, was it worth the wait!


 
Time to get cultural again in my next blog tomorrow at La Maison de la Photographie!

 À Bientôt ! 
x







Monday, 7 October 2013

Parinspiration


One of the things I like most about Paris is that it is exactly how you might imagine it to be from the pictures. Sure, there are the less beautiful areas around the Gare du Nord and Pigalle. But an evening in my local area is enough to reassure you that Paris is exactly the city of your mind, where elegant figures swan down dusky boulevards and sip wine together.  Besniers the Bakers where you can see Father and Son kneading dough in the shop window each morning and Parisians nonchalantly wearing breton stripes. Old men with handle-bar moustaches shuffling down the road, their arms a benevolent cradle and all the time in the world on their hands, which are clasped earnestly behind their backs. The Eiffel Tower is such an icon of the imagination that you have to blink when you see it like a paper cutting tacked onto a blue paper sky.

On Pinterest I've been collecting cute images of Paris. 'Parinspiration' if you will...ok, I'll stop with the terrible puns! It's so addictive and like having a free magazine, art gallery and DIY book rolled into one at the click of a finger. Here are a few of my favourite Paris pictures:

   

Photo credits: http://www.designworklife.com/2013/09/23/nina-hunter-cest-la-vie-typography/



Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galatte, 1876


Photo credits: http://franceftars.us/?con=image&photo=Love+is+in+Paris


Photo credits: http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/09/a2/b1/09a2b19ff3aed13e3c9a459171e25ff7.jpg



Gustave Caillebotte, Richard Gallo and His Dog at Petit Gennevilliers, c. 1884




Photo credits: Yours truly!



Photo credits: http://picsvisit.blogspot.ca/2013/06/hotel-athenee-paris.html?m=1


 Claude Monet, Femme avec un parasol, 1875

I'll keep sharing these Paris pictures with you as I find them!
For now,
À Bientôt !
x