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Showing posts with label easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label easter. Show all posts
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Let's pretend we're in Venice for Easter...
Let's amble along a canal...
Let's buy a pink quill pen and write a love letter to Byron or Shelley...
Whilst drinking a Campari spritz in a cafe...
You could think about all the Murano glass you didn't buy...
And forget the rather unspectacular pizza you did buy. These guys should come to New York - they throw a thin stripe of red sauce around the edges. What's up with that?
Nevermind. The views ARE spectacular.
And the gelato NEVER disappoints.
New York gelato joints could catch a few lessons here.
Shall we catch a Vivaldi concert in some old church? It's required listening...
What about the Easter eggs/uova di cioccolata all covered in crepe paper and ribbons? Paris would not approve. They like to SEE their chocolate.
I guess it's pommes and blood oranges...
Happy Easter from Venice!(I'm in Astoria by the way...)
Thursday, April 1, 2010
They are more likely to end up on your dinner plate..
There is always the option of becoming a chocolate sheep, if you're shopping at Dehillerin and buy this yellow mold...
BCBG had sheep safely grazing in their windows on rue Saint Honore...
This black sheep found a safe refuge at the Art-Paris show... 
Plenty of sheep are seeking sanctuary at the new Lalanne show at Les Arts decoratifs... The noise is deafening...
But as long as you keep them outside your chateau, it's bearable... 
Inside, they do best on the floor...
Hippos, blue or not, can graze all they want without fear or fuss...
As can cat-bird-fish-cows...
A non-grazing horse-lamp was not in the show but standing in an alcove on rue Tronchet...
At Les Arts Decoratifs, you could almost spend as much time in the bookstore browsing as in the museum in my opinion...
A dog onboard-a-Lalanne-sheep postcard... Here's a little gentle music for those sheep...
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Everywhere I turned in Paris there were bows, bows, bows.
French ribbons all over every single piece of Parisien Easter chocolate for sure!
Corey's Rose teacup, original watercolor, 9" x 11"
French ribbons are not to be ignored. Particularly since the ribbon industry started in St. Etienne in the 11th century.
Organza pink ribbon and French perfum are a perfect match.
A bow-tied slipper...
Embroidered ribbons used as a decorative motif are ever present like here at the Musee Carnavalet.
The Marie-Antoinette exhibit at the Grand Palais is what made me sit up and take notice of French ribbon - this hairdo guide at the show. Now I'm reading the unputdownable Antonia Fraser biography of Marie-Antoinette...
But ribbons were not just decorative touches - they held things on like a hat or were tied around a waist - they were the zipper of their day.
Of course ribbons as painted decoration on a wall - does anyone do it better than the French? Here at Chateau Vaux le Vicomte.
And here in an old boulangerie in the 18th arrondissement, wall ribbons keep the croissants safe from greedy fingers.
Here is a do-it-yourself wall treatment you can buy at department store BHV.
So when I saw this box of John & Kira's chocolates decked out in wired French ribbon I had to get it and paint it. The chocolates inside are flavored with lavender and ginger and bergamot and lemongrass! YUM !
Still this wall of ribbon at Laduree beckons... When I asked for a bit of their satin signature ribbon for my little chocolate box, they were more than generous!Now what to do with this precious ribbon?
All suggestions will be considered seriously.
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