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Showing posts with label pastry geometrie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pastry geometrie. Show all posts
Monday, October 26, 2009
At the Salon du Chocolat, Leonidas made this huge chocolatey homage... 
To the Paris Opera.
If I didn't look at all this chocolate in an abstract way my goose would surely be cooked. And I would weigh in at 500 pounds as some readers have suggested...ahem
The first week in Paris your eyes are glued to the patisserie vitrines (windows). Then they start to wonder up above to the amazing architecture...
No wonder Parisien chocolatiers and patissieres are strongly influenced by the aesthetics of their surroundings.
Is it possible not to soak this up and then recreate it into chocolate walls and bricks of great beauty ?
OK, they should have tried harder to show off their asthetic heritage - this purveyor is from the sticks obviously...
The magnificent of scale, the grandeur of Paris...
La Maison du chocolat knows how to translate it with style and genius.
Sigh...
Yum...
So lovely...
Very lovely indeed...
Is there another place on the planet that combines beautiful architecture...
And beautiful pastry? I think not...
When I got home I found the perfect homage to both sent me by designer Susan Hockbaum. Susan had the wherewithal to take Paris pastries outside and shoot them amidst the architecture."In Paris, everything looks like dessert." BONJOUR PARIS MONUMENTS!!!
Friday, February 6, 2009
Fauchon Macarons,watercolor, 9" x 11"Where is the first place you go when you land in Paris religiously?
Fauchon Tea, original art, 9" x 11"
Maybe it's because I used to go every Sunday to Fauchon (when there was still a branch in New York)
That I find myself heading there right off the plane practically...
My favorite museum never disappoints....
There are tons of macarons!
Boxes and boxes...
Long, square....
Plus individually packed...
And bien sur decorating gateaux like crazy...
It's the craziness of Fauchon that appeals to me...
The nutty over-the-topness of it all...
And they (like moi) LOVE the geometrie!!! 
I had lunch in this geometric crazy box. I dragged the box home and of course it fell to pieces. Craziness is not meant to last...
Wish I had dragged this box home, though I do have the cup and drink out of it daily. So where is the first place you head for in Paris?Tell all!
BON WEEK-END!
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