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False Steps

I featured some of the many steps in Paris in a recent post.  Here are some more steps… …………………… or are there? If you are a fan of trompe l’oeil, […]

-Paris

Two Doors in Montmartre

Jean-Baptiste Clément (1836-1903), a singer, was “Mayor of Montmartre” during the heady 70 days of the 1871 Commune, when this area actually seceded from Paris. The Commune (La Commune de […]

-Belgium

Hergé’s Adventures in… Brussels

Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian cartoonist, born in Brussels. His best known and most substantial work is The Adventures of […]

-Canaries

Warm Tones in Tenerife

Wordless Wednesday – on Wednesdays  all over the internet bloggers  post a photo with no words to explain it. Linked to Whimsical Windows Delirious Doors.

-Paris

One Lonesome Door

Built between 1613 and 1632, the Hôtel de Retz first took this name in 1649, when Pierre de Retz and his wife acquired what had previously been known as the Hôtel d’Elbeuf. The niece […]

-Paris

An Eerie Muse

There’s a strange sculpture in  l’Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris: it is a featureless face hidden in part behind a veil that is held aloft by bodiless hands. This bronze sculpture […]

-Paris

Lost in Paris

Le Lieu du Design is currently showing an exhibition dedicated to design and tourism in Paris and the Ile-de-France region, called Lost in Paris.  This personal vision of Paris by Parisians adoptees […]