Category: PARIS
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REVIEW Samaritaine
Like the recently reopened Paris store whose story it tells, this handsome title from US-based publisher Assouline is awash with Art Deco gorgeousness and chic…
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Picturing a revolution
It lasted just 72 days, but as a case study in the sheer untamable messiness of history, it’s hard to do better than the Paris Commune of 1871.
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Ader’s winged wonder refreshed
Clément Ader’s gloriously fantastical Avion III, his hallucinatory mash-up of steam engines, variable geometry bat wings and propellor blades like giant feathers…
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REVIEW Paris
The Hungarian-born French photojournalist Paul Almasy had a long, illustrious and global career as a war correspondent, chronicler for UNESCO…
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Dry wit
One evening years ago, I was a passenger on the open top deck of a bateau mouche in Paris. The boat went under a bridge, and someone above us…