Yerres, France — This is a fabulous destination just 20 minutes from Paris. The Maison Caillebotte is nestled in a sprawling park filled with period buildings from the 19th century like the […]
Portuguese Modernism and a 19th Century Estate
The Man Who Brought Ancient Egypt to the World: Jean-François Champollion
Paris, France — Mummies, pyramids, the sphinx. Since Antiquity the art and civilization of Ancient Egypt has fascinated the world. It is a magical world with its pantheon of anthropomorphic gods and […]
Paintings from a Certain Paradise
Paris, France —This is a fantastical world of color, shapes and forms. Worlds filled with animals real and surreal, homes and houses and an outpouring of joy. This is the imaginary world, […]
Stories in Stone
Versailles, France — It’s all about stone. Carving stone, cutting stone, fashioning stone, crafting stone, listening to stone, artworks of stone. Stone remains timeless, the first raw material to be transformed by […]
A Car for a Canopy
Paris, France —First comes the sound. A purring sound turning into a roar. The British legend McLaren has joined forces with the magical Hilton hotels in a sustainable, ecological journey in Paris […]
Engraved for Eternity
Paris, France —Cameos from Antiquity and the Middle Ages, scarabs of carved carnelian, an emperor etched in a ruby. This is the fascinating world of hard carved stone, a precious art that […]
The Magic and Mystery of Apulia
Paris, France — Abundant amphoras, those containers from Antiquity, a medieval mosaic depicting a griffin, a classical Greek wine jug configured with the intriguing head of a woman, zoomorphic rhytona, conical containers […]
Steinlen the Superb
Auvers-Sur-Oise, France — It was his black cat that made him famous the world over. A rather angry-looking black cat but one that you can’t take your eyes from. It appears on […]
The Splendor of the Samurai
Paris, France — It was a world of dragons and dragonflies, swords and sabres, long and short, these were part of the regalia of the samurai the legendary and very real, prestigious […]
Being Balzac
Paris, France —It is a bucolic country home in the middle of Paris across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. Nestled into the hills of the Passy neighborhood is the 18th century […]
The Gourmet Gazette 