SUNDAY SMILE

 

Dear smiling lady, I believe your name is Mary.

I personnally have  never seen such a witty, loving, feminine, and joyfull smile.

I have discovered yesterday where you live. In the old church of Saint Germain des Près, yes, that’s it, right across from Les Deux Magots and the Louis Vuitton store.

How can anyone smile at a face which doesn’t exist ? And Smiling Mary, you have  been smiling to your darling baby since the Middle Ages. You had disappeared for ages and it is only not long ago that workers found you  while digging the ground to build a parking lot.

Isn’t it incredible that from only 3 blocks of stone, such tenderness could perspire. With a supple gesture you smile to a block of chalk who has not been able to offer you His smile.  But to you, in His abscence, He is still there. We can almost hear your whisper “I love You” .

What an enchantment !

(You can go and say “Hello” to Smiling Mary any time in the church. She’s at the back of the church.)

BLUES. “ YOU’VE GOT THE BLUES ?” NO, I’M ALL IN THE BLUE.

 

Put your headphones on, browse through my MIXPOD playlist and enjoys all these blues, no Blues possible after that !

INDIGO, NAVY BLUE.

 

Inspired by the color of the South Seas, to the decorations in cobalt produced in the Middle East in the ninth century, the blue Portuguese tiles to China and Berlin, Hermès’s latest china set will accompany you every hour of every day: from the elegant cups for breakfast dishes, from cups for serving tea.

“Mandarin Blues” as seen through the eyes of Ralph Lauren, king of the Blues.

 

from De la course des nuages

A bed as spick and span as Ralphy’s would do to me anytime .

 

Get cosier will be difficult.

 

Indigo Blue

Even Ines goes all blue !

From Vanessa on Pinterest

From Kia Sunda on Pinterest

from Krista Jarrard on Pinterest

Blues “Côté Sud “ style.

Still got the Blues ?

LES PUCES DU DESIGN : 6,7 AND 8 OF MAY 2011

 

 

Created in 1999, the Puces du Design are :

* An inevitable rendez-vous for design lovers : you.

 
* A favorite place for strolling at the water's edge : not the beach side, but not bad.

* A good place for buying exceptional or historical pieces, fun pieces are always tempting, there you go for a splendid week-end which will end up ruining you !

 

Besides the 100 antique dealers there will be special exhibitions :

* Jean-Louis Avril, born in 1935, has been one of the first designers to use cardboard for creating furniture... Before the trend of ecology, he made of this simple material a «buiding material». An avant-garde research presented on the stand of Flavien Gaillard Concept.

* «Made in Italie» : Les Puces du Design has chosen to celebrate the country of design : Italy. On the Puces du design several exhibitions will celebrate design «Made in Italy» with namely an event about Osvaldo Borsani on the stand Artefact Design and a presentation of the collection «locus solus» designed by Gae Aulenti and edited by Poltronova in 1963 on the stand XXO.

* « Tribute to the famous Gras lamps » : on Alaxandre Guillemain’s stand .

LES PUCES DU DESIGN

6,7 and 8 of May 2011

QUAI DE LA LOIRE

PARIS 75019

http://www.pucesdudesign.com

Metro : JAURES

Free … so that you can splurge on that fun lounge chair totally 50’s ! Youpi , Ya !

From 10 am to 7pm and dance into the night on Friday 6th till 9pm.