Smyrne 1926, few people know that Jean Lurçat was first a great painter
It is thanks to Guillaume Janneau, who used to run Le Mobilier National and its tapestry workshops, that Jean Lurçat (1892-1966) moved from being a successful painter to literally saving the art of French tapestry, in the 1940’s. « Four seasons » one of his masterpieces, was started with the war in 1939 and was made throughout until 1946.Read More
Mireille Guiliano talks about “French women don’t get fat” to chef Jean François Piège
Every time best seller writer Mireille Guiliano invites me to a new restaurant, I know it is going to be a feast. And this time at Le Grand Restaurant, Jean François Piège’s tiny new place near the Elysée, we had a fabulous time again. I had dreamed of going for months!Read More
Vincent Illouz (finalist), Clément Lemaire (winner), François Illouz (finalist) and Antoine Delon (winner)
It was an extraordinary final game at Morfontaine golf club, for Vincent and Francois Illouz and Clément Lemaire and Antoine Delon who played 36 holes under pouring rain and during ten hours, last Sunday, for the French amateur Four ball match play competition, Trophée Armand de Gramont.Read More
Golshifteh Farahani as Anna Karenine: she reminded me of Isabelle Adjani at 17
French newspapers are full of Golshifteh Farahani, the 32 year old Iranian actress who had to leave her country four years ago, in order to be free on screen. She was in Cannes for the film festival and spoke about Jim Jarmush’s « Paterson » in which she acts, she is on French screens in « Les Malheurs de Sophie » by Christophe Honoré and is acting every night (until June 12) at Théâtre de la Tempête, at Cartoucherie de Vincennes, one of the best stages in France today.Read More
Daniel Templon with Anne Claudie-Coric, who runs the gallery, and his young associates
To celebrate his fifty years as an art dealer, French galerist Daniel Templon, commissioned a book on his professional life by Sorbonne Professor Julie Verlaine. It is a history of the last fifty years of contemporary art and a page turner about a little man from the suburbs, who became very big through his passion for art and his love of life.Read More
Louis Hipollyte Mouchot, “Chadouf”
There is a double attraction in visiting Institut du Monde arabe’s garden exhibition, « Jardins d’Orient, de l’Alhambra au Taj Mahal ». Since Jack Lang was named President a few years ago, it seems that this institution, created in 1987 by François Mitterrand, has taken on a new modernity. And what is happening in the arab world today, is drawing more and more visitors, who try to understand the culture and tradition of these (mostly) Mediterranean countries. Read More
Woody Allen directing the divine couple, Jesse Eisenberg and Kirsten Stewart, in “Café Society”
« First a murderer and now a Christian », is one of the hilariously funny sentences of the new Woody Allen film, « Café Society », which opened the Cannes Film festival 2016. Vonnie (Veronica) played by Kirsten Stewart, and Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg) form an intriguing couple in the 56 th film by the New York director. We find all his favorite themes, the Jewish family with a willful mother (the excellent Jeannie Berlin), Ben, the son turned mafioso, and Woody’s alter ego, Bobby, a young red headed who travels to Hollywood and returns fast to New York.
Built by Jardiland and designed by ZEA, this observation deck looked over thousands of camassias and the Lake of Swans
The magic of Journée des Plantes de Chantilly has worked again this week end with lovely weather and Prince Amyn Aga Khan, in great form, during the three day event. He is more and more passionate about gardens. On Sunday, beloved French Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, showed up « en famille ».