Galeries Lafayette Cheat Sheet: Top Tips for Exploring the Department Store
Jet setting to Paris? Cuckoo for old-school department stores? Join the club! Nothing gives me more pleasure than browsing in one of Paris’s great 19th-century retail palaces. For years, I’ve celebrated shopping at the...
French Just Wanna Have Fun: Behind The Scenes at Jean Paul Gaultier’s ‘Fashion Freak...
Fashion Freak Show, held at the legendary Folies Bergère until April, is a window into the intriguing mind of proudly freakish fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier. It delivers an extravagant retrospective celebrating the icon's...
Ward off the Winter Chill: Where to Eat Now in Paris
New Year’s Resolution: I’m on the "seafood" diet, when I see food I eat it!
L’Office
Charles Compagnon recently handed over the keys of L’Office to his friend Charles Nikitits, who, after several years at the...
Visit Galeries Lafayette this Christmas
It’s official. We’ve commenced the most wonderful time of the year in Paris… The Christmas festivities have kicked off in the French capital! Indeed you’d be hard-pressed to find a more perfect place to...
For Sale: Paris Apartment with Terrace Views of the Eiffel Tower
In the 9th arrondissement near Madeleine, located on the 7th floor of a beautiful art deco building dating from the 1900s, this sunny apartment of 73 sqm with terrace and view of Paris is...
For Sale: Huge, Bright Apartment near Paris Opera
Situated on the third floor with an elevator, this large, luminous apartment is just steps from l'Opéra. In size, the flat measures 134,8 m² (128.79 m², loi Carrez). It's composed of a beautiful living...
Le Parister, Sellae, Le Vaudeville, L’Innocence: Where We’re Eating Now in Paris
"Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant." --Honoré de Balzac, 1830
Les Passerelles, Le Parister Hotel
This recent opening located between Montmartre and Pigalle, recalls Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s romantic ballad,...
Paris Moments: Photo of the Month, Société Générale’s Former Headquarters
Corey Frye, also known as “A French Frye in Paris,” spends much of his days pounding the cobblestones in Paris as he leads tours around the city. Along the way, he spots wonderful panoramas, cafés,...
Paris Moments: Photo of the Month, The Opéra Garnier
Corey Frye, also known as “A French Frye in Paris,” spends much of his days pounding the cobblestones in Paris as he leads tours around the city. Along the way, he spots wonderful panoramas, cafés,...
Here and There: Une Petite Histoire of Place Pigalle in Paris… and Seattle
Place Pigalle is a public square located at the foot of Montmartre Butte between the 18th and 9th arrondissements of Paris, nestled in the heart of what once was home to painters’ ateliers, art...
The Generous Genius of Gustave Moreau
Long ago in Paris I made a pilgrimage to number 14 rue de La Rochefoucauld in the 9th arrondissement. (At this address, Musée Gustave Moreau is a museum dedicated to the painter.) I suspect,...
For Sale: Exceptional Apartment Near the Rue des Martyrs
This exceptional apartment is two steps away from rue des Martyrs, the street famous for its food, shopping and restaurants. It's situated on the 5th floor in a beautiful early 1800s building (with elevator)....
