Inspiration & music
THAT hat
Unless you have spent the last ten days living in Mongolia in a yurt with no wifi, you must have heard about THAT hat ...
The California drought
The water situation in California is alarming. It hardly rained this year and snow was scarce, again. Reservoirs are ...
Balancing blocks for kids …….and adults
How beautiful these blocks are ! They remind me of the Brancusi atelier in Paris which i wrote about here .From ...
Slim Aarons; a 1972 christmas card story
There has been an important Slim Aarons revival recently, including a feature documentary in development. This ...
HAPPY
To celebrate 2014 and the year of the horse here is 24 hours of happy music by Pharrell Williams , the first ever ...
Florence Lopez’s winter den
I recently went to visit my friend Florence Lopez's showroom . Florence is my favorite antiques dealer in Paris , she ...
Florence Lopez’s winter den
To look at the post on Florence Lopez's stunning showroom in Paris , go
It’s cold and grey outside, Hassan Hajjaj’s rockstar portraits will cheer you up
These colorful portraits of Hassan Hajjaj make me think also of Seydu Keita and Malick Sidibe, two of my favorite ...
From the garden with art
A friend of mine, the artist Jean Michel Jaudel , makes these beautiful compositions which then he photographs and ...
R.I.P Madiba
As i was posting about the film Mandela : Long Way To Freedom I receive an alert from the New York Times and the ...
One million flowers at Christian Dior Couture .
I have just seen the brilliant feature documentary Dior and I by Frédéric Tcheng.Dior and I brings the viewer ...
Film costume and the amazing Trish Summerville in Catching Fire
I just saw the film Catching Fire and I was mesmerized by the work of film costume designer Trish Summerville.When ...