Mon 28 Jan 2008
I love the Marais. It is an area in Paris full of architectural treasures and fabulous shopping. There is always something unexpected too.
The symbol of Paris is the boat. This is one of the most beautiful I’ve seen. It’s on the gate at one side of the Carnavalet, a museum in the Marais featuring the history of Paris.
This lady was in a window of a shop that usually sells photos. I’m not sure why she’s there but she caught my eye. (PS-Nancy, can you see your son in the reflection?)
I think I would like one of these in my garden. Shaped like twisting wood but made of metal.
I hope you put a muffler on your rain drain too. I think this is some sort of conceptual art as I saw some more knitted things inside the Village St Paul.
January 29th, 2008 at 1:59 am
The ‘Love Seat’ is a wonderful colour and would fit in my garden just fine as my fence is this colour. Also like the knitting art.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:49 am
I saw that love seat during a walking tour of the Saint Paul neighborhood last spring. I think they used to call benches like that, “Courting Chairs” because the man and woman were separated by the dividing “arm” of the bench, and they had to sit facing in opposite directions so it made everything “proper”.
January 29th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Oh, love that chair !!! Love the muffler. Love, love, love the boat.
You score a 10 on today’s pics. Job well done !!!!!
January 29th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Oh yes Linda — there he is! Thanks a lot for that treat and for showing Dan and friend around the town on Saturday. They had a lovely time and he was honored to meet you, the authoress of this wonderful photo-novel of Paris. We really enjoy the picture you sent o him in front of that beautiful concrete framework of a stained glass window as well. Don’t know much about the Marais, it doesn’t seem as much advertised as other sites of interest, but from what you’ve shown it seems to have one stunning and unique Art piece or artifact after another. And these are particularly special with our son reflected in such a timelessly beautiful place. Many many thanks to you for that — especially as we now know you were also coping with the Paris Party Scene last weekend!
January 29th, 2008 at 9:28 am
The muffler is cute. Perhaps it keeps the pipe from freezing.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I adore the chair! I was in the Marais today - I mentioned you in my post too, oh-inspirer-of-photography!
January 29th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Knitting always comes handy
January 29th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
The pipe muffler is very cute — the kind of thing that probably only the really observant would notice, too.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
What a great collection of images! I like the juxtaposition of the metal facing chairs and the knitted muffler on the pipe.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Love the photo with the statue. Really awesome with the reflection of the male just behind her….creative photography!
I saw those knitted things on somebody elses Paris blog, but I think they were on the metal sidewalk posts. Wonder what they represent….
January 30th, 2008 at 4:25 am
the knitting is a publicity stunt for ‘Bergère de France’, a company which sells wool & knitting paraphernalia. the group who does these things is called ‘Knitta Please’ and is from Houston.
for those of you who read french, here’s an article summing it all up:
http://www.lesechos.fr/info/metiers/4652754.htm
February 1st, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I don’t know why I continue to read your blog, as it only makes me wish that I was in France even more! I too love the Marais. Thank you for allowing me to live vicariously through you! LOL : )