Tag: paris

  • Astier de Villatte (remix) – Paris

    Astier de Villatte is a Parisian store that makes and sells ceramics, candles and other carefully crafted everyday objects. The photos may look familiar. That is because all these pictures had appeared in an earlier post (click here). . In that post, they were only slightly processed to appear as natural as possible. Here, I am

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  • Passage des Panoramas, Paris

    We came  to the Passage des Panoramas for the restaurant, Passage 53, which we posted earlier here. The Passage des Panoramas is a roofed commercial passageway located in the IIe arrondissement, of Paris between the Montmartre boulevard to the North and Saint-Marc street to the south. According to Wikipedia: It is one of the earliest venues

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  • Au bon couscous, Paris

    Au Bon couscous is one of many touristy restaurants in the Latin Quarter, located just around the corner from our apartment. On one of the several rainy days in that week while we were in Paris, we ducked in Au bon couscous for a quick lunch. There are many restaurants (Greek, Italian, French, Asian, Indian,

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  • Kartell, Rue du Bac, Paris

    The area around Rue du Bac/Blvd St Germain in the 7th arrondisement is where furniture stores congregate in Paris. Several manufacturer have their showrooms here. We passed Cappellini, Knoll, and Cassina but went into Kartell because we are interested in their Tati lamp. Kartell, based in Milan, is known for their plastic furniture. Founded in

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