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Sceau de racines

Banyan tree roots in Hong Kong

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J'adore ces vieilles enseignes

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Ouais, c'est pas mal.

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Sillons vers Saint-Michel

Mont Saint-Michel, France by Allyson Beaucourt 

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En mouvement.

 Ballerina Violetta Elvin, Zoltán Glass, 1958

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Corps et des cœurs

Roger Schall, libération de Paris, 1944.

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On ne se lasse pas de voir l'intérieur de la boutique de la joaillerie Fouquet (Musée du Carnavalet)

The most famous art nouveau style shop interior must be the shop of Nicholas Fouquet

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Because of the particularly remarkable decorations of the Fouquet jewelry store, reconstituted and presented within the collections of the Carnavalet museum, you are immediately immersed in the Art Nouveau style, born in Belgium and further developed in France (and later also other distinct european regions), which will dominate the architecture, the decorative arts then the plastic arts (paintings, sculpture) until the First World War. A style characterized by curved and elegant lines; floral, plant or animal motifs inspired by nature; slender and idealized female silhouettes with extra long, flowing and evanescent hair. A style that will also put color back at the heart of arts and architecture.

To create the decorations for his jewelry store, presented here at the Carnavalet museum, Georges Fouquet (1862-1957) called on the Czech Alfons Mucha (1860-1939), an essential and emblematic illustrator of Art Nouveau from the end of the 19th century . Mucha was born on July 24, 1860 in Moravia, a region today partly encompassed by Czechia. After passing through Prague, Vienna and Munich, he arrived in Paris in 1887 to study art. At the same time, he gradually became known by producing magazines, illustrating catalogs or creating sublime advertising posters. His portraits of the famous actress Sarah Bernhardt, like those of many women in a vaporous and typically Art Nouveau style, made him famous. So much so that he was officially rewarded for his talents at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900, notably thanks to a collection of jewelry that he designed.

This is how, in 1901, Georges Fouquet invited Mucha to design the decor for his new jewelry store located at 6 rue Royale, between Place de la Concorde and La Madeleine. The artist created a modern and functional boutique (Art Nouveau is in fact a quest for both aesthetics and functionality), designed as a work of art in its own right. Mosaics, furniture, display cases, stained glass windows, lighting, door handles... everything in the decorations and volumes is of naturalistic inspiration, with a lot of curves, plant and floral motifs, or even animal motifs (the bronze peacocks behind and in the (counter tops are beautiful). A central figure in Mucha's work, the elegant woman is present here too, but mainly in front of the store or in small touches inside. Dreamlike, magical and almost phantasmagorical, the powerful settings imagined by Alfons Mucha will surprise, fascinate and seduce his contemporaries. Dismantled in 1923, most of the shop's decor was given to the Carnavalet museum by Georges Fouquet in 1941. But only in the 1980's the shop interior was reconstructed in the museum.

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Hu Die <3

Hu Die in the 1930s

Hu Die is better known to western audiences by the anglicized version of her name, Butterfly Wu. (Hu Die means butterfly!) Her career spanned four decades starting in the silent era, when she was named China’s first “Movie Queen.” She is notable for many reasons, among them for the fact that she starred in the first Chinese sound film in 1931, and was awarded the best actress prize for a later return to screen in Rear Door (1960).

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La perfection du trait à la main

the seal at the bottom of 瓷器 ciqi/chinese porcelain is handwritten

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Incroyable ce qu'on peut faire avec les drones.

Drone Dragon 1500

1,500 drones light up the sky over Shenzhen on June 22 with a flying dragon

this amazing display kicked off China's Dragon Boat Festival, taking place on the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese calendar, commemorating the ancient poet Qu Yuan

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Chemin de vert

˗ˋˏ ♡ ˎˊ˗

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C'est joli.

Je garde les mots précieux que tu m’as dit près de mon coeur

Comme un porte bonheur

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Je rêvererais d'une maison avec une telle devanture !

Le manoir des Légendes … Art nouveau creation by Thierry Lechanteur

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Étude crépusculaire

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Très belle affiche d'un grand film.

French film poster for M. Butterfly (1993) dir. David Cronenberg.

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Sergueï Eisenstein and his dog Rinty.

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Librairie de rue

Little free library

I want a beautiful little library outside of my house, and maybe a few friends houses, and i want to circulate books through them and help make books more accessible in my neighborhood one library at a time.