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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
I mentioned I got an invitation to a "private" visit at Pierre Herme's 185, rue de Vaugirard boutique...
J. who works for Pierre Herme, bought a half dozen watercolors - all Pierre Herme-related. We were going to meet, but with the Paris transportation strike and school holidays we didn't make it. As a sort of consulation prize I got to "tour" the shop and take pictures during pre-opening hours last Tuesday morning...
A macaron-lover's dream non? 
The front door says, emotions to share. I wanted to share my visit with you.
Inside the rue de Vaugirard boutique is spacious. The decor shows the hand of an architect at play - bright colors, airy, well-lite with big sunny windows. In every way different from the boutique on rue Bonaparte, which is a bit like entering a secret cave...
And there is no line out the door!
The ceiling is a playful use of the Pierre Herme logo...
The boxes match the color of the counters. The long rectangular box holds a set of 6 macarons perfectly. I call it the "petal" box, because the leaves open up like a flower...
Here pastries wait their turn in the wings to go onstage...
Staff checks that all are perfect and identical...
Like carefully choreographed dancers, the staff moves silently...
delicately placing each pastry..
like a jewel in it's setting.
The Pierre Herme logo awaits...
to go on these Millefeuille Plenitudes lined up like soldiers. Whole trays are tossed if they don't come up to Herme's standards.
The last touch of perfection...
And not to forget the best macarons in the world!
Beautiful row after row of macarons await you. This one is the "marron et thé vert Matcha" and the green thing inside is the "crème onctueuse au thé vert matcha" (green matcha tea cream). Merci Florence.
Macarons are like balloons -(macaron almost rimes with balloon..)
Like puffs of pure joy
They take off and disappear.
But the memory lingers...
The colors..the flavors..the textures...the joy
Do you remember those wonderful lines from Funny Face?Fred Astair: You're in Paris..
You're at the Tuilleries...
You've got balloons...
There's a sudden shower
And you're very, very happy
Audrey Hepburn: Why am I so happy?
Fred Astair: Because I say you are!
That's all you have to know.
You're happy!
Now run!
And I did.
I ran around that shop for 60 minutes taking as many pictures as I could.
And I was very, very happy! :)
Thank you J.
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