Artazart Bookshop
  • 15
  • Mar
  • 2010

If you happen to stroll along Canal Saint-Martin, try not to miss this bookshop, specialy if you like graphic design.

Artazart stocks a staggering selection of books on photography, architecture, art, web design, graffiti, journals, magazines, children books, bags, cameras, art resources and anything of a stylish visual nature.

This shop is perfect for finding the ultimate coffee table book to give to your graphic designer friend, a rare international photo journal or merely for whiling away some hours with this impressive collection of delectable visual treasures.

Artazart Design Bookstore, 83, quai de Valmy,75010 Paris
Fragant History
  • 06
  • Feb
  • 2010

In the Aerolineas Argentinas Magazine of Dec 2009 :

The sense of smell can stir-up potent memories. Certain aromas allow to relive an infinite array of events, as they transport us to different places and times where memories interact with imagination and fantasy.

Paris, apart from being an elegant city par excellence, is the capital of perfume. While there are thousands of ways to experience this unique place which combines flavors and fragances, it’s the city of Grasse where the finest aromas can be found.

But at Rue Scribe, near the Garnier Opéra House, in an old theater, a museum/boutique reveals infinite secrets and curiosities about the manufactering of fragances. Upon crossing through the doorway, one can admire all the distillation stages involved in the elaboration of the different aromas until discovering the marvelous collection of objects linked with perfume making.  Perfume as it’s known today became a liquid in the late XIV century after having originally been a solid.

With a familiar spirit and the hand crafted values that it represents, Fragonard has succeeded in crossing borders to make the sense of smell a uniquely pleasant experience. There are also free guided tours.

Fragonard, 9, Rue Scribe, 75009 Paris, M° Opéra

Uniqlo: new flagshipstore
  • 23
  • Jan
  • 2010

The third Flagship Store international of Uniqlo after New York and London, did open its doors in Paris Oct first.

The Japanese Uniqlo, a mix of “unique” and “clothing” is specialised in leasure clothing or casual wear with a lot  basics, cachemires in all kind of colors.

This fall they have a collection Uniqlo+J designed by fashiondesigner Jil Sander.

Uniqlo, 17 rue Scribe , 75009 Paris, M° Opéra

Alternative concept store
  • 05
  • Jan
  • 2010

Le petit endroit in the Marais is an alternative concept store ,a boutique-gallery owned by Sylvie Grumbach. She mixes different genres with designer Christian Ghion.

Every five or six weeks a fashion designer, a photographer, an artist transforms the whole place and take over.

Le petit endroit, 14, Rue Portefoin, 75003 Paris, tel 01 42 33 99 26