Picked these up at La Poste today, thought you’d like them. A high-res version with all twelve signs here.
If you’d like to sleep inside a fairy tale, you might want to pay a visit to La Balade des Gnômes, a quiet bed and breakfast where you can live out your fairy tale dreams, including one inside the belly of a wooden bull.
Details and pictures of interiors at io9.
Oh so kitsch! We love it. Buy it at the Francophilia Amazon Store!
We did not know there was such a thing as a toilet tattoo. But apparently there is. Of course, you can get this on Amazon…
The Hotel Plaza Athénée Paris has remade two of its rooms to look like life-size Barbie dream-houses.
via Boing Boing
They’re hiring. Maybe this lipdub, done to the kitschy pop tune Voyage voyage, will convince you. Or not.
via Lipdub Blog
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 82-year-old artist father is putting on his first show in Paris, featuring naked buttocks, exploding television sets and a portrait of French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
via Reuters
High art? No. Saccharine? Yes. But there is something about the work of Pierre Grisot we love. The son of a watchmaker, he worked for a time designing hats and creating perfume ads for Dior, and as an artist for L’Officiel de la mode et de la couture. The good news? You can still [...]
Great collection of scanned vintage postcards at Paris en 1900.
Chef Arnaud Lallement from l’Assiette Champenoise, a Michelin two-star restaurant just outside Reims, France, and Chef Scott Hunnel from award-winning Victoria & Albert’s at Walt Disney World Resort, are collaborating to create a French-inspired menu featuring superior products and seasonal ingredients sourced from around the world.
via Cruise Diva
The restaurant is called [...]
The Santa Barbara French Festival is the biggest Bastille Day bash in the Western US. It includes an Eiffel Tower, a poodle parade, drag queens doing the cancan… And it’s free. We would LOVE to go.
Now this is something new. A souvenir “brand!” Guess some entrepreneur in Paris got sick of the same old tacky souvenirs and decided to take matters into his or her own hands. Some of the stuff is definitely cooler than what you usually see. But you can’t get IWASIN Paris products online. You [...]
Must have this! 8 GB of storage. You’ll also find a link to a croissant wrist rest that claims to smell like bread at GeekAlerts.
HT @Myriam
New “concept” store Merci in the Marais (Paris) decorates this little vintage car according to its latest theme (here it’s the Liberty brand). We have a thing for flowery cars and wouldn’t mind having this one. As for the store: bof.
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