A brand adored by fashionistas for ultra-comfortable shoes. Flat, with round, square, pointed or even wedge heels, they are timeless. Always in tune with the times, we keep them and wear them for years. It is more over Robert Clergerie that Carven chose to sign his shoe collections.
In this shop, what we have is more gastronomic pastry than simple pastry. Pierre Hermé is an avant-garde pastry confectioner and a magician with flavors. He revolutionizes the most established traditions and eliminates the excessive or useless decors which clutter cake shops. He uses salt as sugar to bring out other shades of flavors and he constantly reassesses his own work by exploring new territories or by revisiting his own recipes.
Christophe Michalak, in addition to being one of the best pastry chefs in the world, likes to invent and have fun with shapes and containers. Traditional pastries called Kosmik for example, revisited in small jars that you can enjoy wherever you go. Less fat, less sugar and above all no gelatin… Here is the quintessence of tastes and textures, according to the seasonal inspiration of Christophe Michalak! With a frozen variant for Ice Kream.
But also the Klassik, its cakes for 6 or 8 people, Raspberry-Lychee Pavlova, Vanilla Tonka-Caramel Millefeuille, or the yuzu-lime meringue tart. His Cakes, chocolate and fleur de sel, caramel and pistachio or vanilla. And of course Miss K, the unmissable salt butter caramel nun from chef Christophe Michalak or the Piquillo, this crunchy biscuit topped with pepper-raspberry confit and a hint of tabasco.
Settled Rue du Cherche-Midi for eighty years and three generation, the Poilâne bakery never moved. It now supplies the greatest restaurants in the world and the best houses. People are mad about the walnut round loafs, made with figs or whole wheat flour, which allow us to make incredible “tartines”… but also divine apple tarts or their famous sablés (shortbread biscuits cookies).
Located on the prettiest of our squares, the Hôtel Récamier looks like a typical Germanopratine bourgeois house. Decorated by Jean-Louis Deniot, its luxury is not ostentatious, it is just chic. Its 24 rooms are all intimate, comfortable and precious cocoons. And at Récamier, tea time is sacred, on the patio on sunny days or by the fireplace in winter.
This Italian brand specialized in mosaic was founded in 1956 by Renato Bisazza. Bisazza covers all surfaces with its mosaics and to create those little tiles in molten glass, it often calls on designers such as Marcel Wanders, Jaime Hayon or Andrée Putman.
L’Esprit Saint-Germain is a hotel designed as a private house in minute detail. This hotel has nothing ostentatious but has a true “spirit”, a mix of elegance and conviviality, comfort and refinement. Everything is thought through for us to feel at home. At any hour of the day, in the library living room, in front of the fireplace, we can read the newspaper, leaf through a book, drink a coffee or receive friends around a drink. And most of all, after a very full Parisian program, one cannot miss Relaxation Space : a hammam and a sauna with an unrestricted view on the Parisian roofs and the Saint-Sulpice Church.
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 fame reached empress Joséphine and Pauline Bonaparte, and he became their favorite before becoming the one of Marie Hélène de Bourbon and of all European sovereigns. One century later, in the Roaring twenties, a new perfume is created every year. The Art Deco perfume bottles are designed by Julien Viard and Maurice Depinoix and the luxurious editions are made of Baccarat Crystal.
Lubin’s perfumes are the symbol of French elegance, particularly in the United-States, and until 1975 success has continued before the brand felt into oblivion with the massive appearance on the market of perfumes made by top fashion designers. In 1999, Gilles Thévenin, director of creation at Guerlain at that time, decides to give a new life to Lubin, which still represents to him the quintessence of French luxury. It is a titanic project but, fortunately, he has a great part of the 450 scents created by the brand and he decides, with Olivia Giacobetti’s help (one of the famous noses of French perfumery, remember En Passant at Frédéric Malle) to put some of them back on the market, alternating with the creations of new fragrances.
