Showing posts with label France Friday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France Friday. Show all posts

Saturday, August 13, 2011

French Friday; Guimard, Paris


The Guimard Art Nouveau signs for the Parisian underground. Sublime.

Me, just to the left, very unFrench, eating on the street. Hungry.

That was the flute, that contained mayo, that gave me food poisoning, that rendered me bed
bathroom-ridden, for the remainder of that stay.
What memories!!!



Gimard also designed lots of other Parisian street furniture apparently.
Thats me again (hubby doesn't like photos without us in them). I love that hat.




More Guimard, in the Musee d'Orsay. Taken shortly before my-brand-new-for-the-trip-camera packed in, hence the terrbile colour.
Photos taken by hubby for me to look at, as I was still ill in bed, sigh.

It's France Friday over at Selina's, come and join in Francophiles!

Friday, July 29, 2011

Friday French Favorites

Une, deux, trois, quatre, cenq (?), sixe, cept, huit...alors!
There is a new arrival in the collection!!!!



A new Eiffel Tower to join the gang!

This one is a hand-finished crystal perfume bottle, for a perfume called Blue de France by Bernard Lalande, bottle designed by P.F Dinand.

It was only sold at a single outlet in terminal 2 at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, during the 1980's.
(Found in a Rangiora op-shop by my clever, handsome hubby this week)

 It actually looks beautiful in real-life. My crap quick-snap has made it look a bit like a cruet pot!


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