Entries by Hélène

LES DAMES DU PANTHEON

Après l’Hôtel La Belle Juliette, rue du Cherche-Midi, Le label Hôtels Paris Rive Gauche a engagé la rénovation complète d’un autre fleuron de l’hôtellerie du quartier Latin, à deux pas du jardin du Luxembourg, face au Panthéon, pour le transformer en hôtel 4 étoiles. Après Juliette Récamier, figure emblématique des Salons littéraires et de l’émancipation […]

THE GUIDE

An updated guide for those who are looking for excellence and exception above all In the current Events, you will find exhibitions, shows or movie festivals as well as the latest germanopratin spots not to miss. In the guide, more than 500 addresses : museums, Art Centers, galleries one should visit, the gardens one should […]

Les Germanopratines

GERMANOPRATINES : adj, n (lat. germanus “from the same blood”) Refers to those who have the chance to live in the so-called neighborhood “saint-Germain-des-près” but also those who have chosen it as their favorite place and love its heavenly and gourmet whereabouts. No need to be rich, the germanopratine has nerve and taste. She is […]

St-Germain-des-Pres

What other neighborhood in Paris or elsewhere in some other big capital does gather the past and the future as this one ? Antiques and design, top designers and young creators, jazz clubs and trendy clubs, bistrots, cafés and Master Chef’s restaurants, the Comédie Française and the avant-garde theatre ? Saint-Germain-des-près has always been set out to […]

SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY

This great place was opened almost one century ago by Sylvia Beach. She was the first one to publish “Ulysse” by James Joyce or to sell banned books in England and in the United States such as “Lady Chatterley’s lover”. During this period, the shop was considered as the centre of American English culture in […]

ANNABEL WINSHIP

  Annabel Winship presents trendy flat-heeled shoes which are comfortable, a clever mixture of English eccentricity and Parisian elegance. We love her famous Union Jack flat-heeled shoes or her boots decorated with metallic stars, but also her babies and her derbys, always easy to wear to run from an appointment to another.     29 […]

AESOP

  The Australian brand of organic and trendy cosmetics decided to open its first European boutique in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-prés. Its philosophy is to offer well-targeted and high-quality care products without omitting that we also love products that give us sensorial pleasure, a little bit as a spa can offer.     Every product […]

Editions de Parfums FREDERIC MALLE

Frédéric Malle produces perfumes as others produce design, it means that he lets the greatest perfumers work without the slightest restriction. They create authentic artistic creations with very asserted character that we cannot do without once we have tried them. To discover them you will be able, in a décor imagined by Andrée Putman, to […]

LUBIN

Everything started with Pierre-François Lubin, who created his Maison de Parfumerie (Perfume shop) in 1798, to give to “Incroyables” (the Incredible Dandies) and to “Merveilleuses” (the fine ladies) (our ancestors!) perfumed ribbons, masks for balls and face powder, but most of all, his famous “eau vivifiante”(invigorating-bracing water) which became “L’Eau de Lubin” (Lubin’s Water). Lubin’s […]

Galerie CAMERA OBSCURA

This gallery presents 5 to 6 annual exhibitions which show the various periods and waves of photography: Denis Brihat, Denis Dailleux, Paul den Hollander, Bernard Descamps, Eric Dessert, Duhiro Ishimoto, Michael Kenna, Bohnchang Koo, Saul Leiter, Laurent Millet, Sarah Moon, Françoise Nuñez, Philippe Pache, Françoise Nuñez, Luis Gonzales Palma, Marc Riboud, Willy Ronis, Paolo Roversi, […]

Galerie G-P & NATHALIE VALLOIS

Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois were the first ones to dedicate personal exhibitions to Alain Bublex, Gilles Barbier or Paul MacCarthy in France and they are now on display all around the world. Among those whose works are defended by the gallery, there are really well known artists but also younger artists :  Boris Achour, Pilar […]

Galerie LOEVENBRUCK

Hervé Loevenbruck fell in love with Saint-Germain-des-Prés . In his gallery he displays many young hopefuls from the French and European contemporary world : Philippe Mayaux, Bruno Peinado, Fabien Giraud, Raphaël Siboni, Virginie Barré, the Irishwoman Blaise Drummond, the Norwegian Gardar Eide Einarsson, the Swiss Cristian Andersen and the Austrian Werner Reiterer, but also already […]