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Hi Matic hotel in Paris

Happy Tuesday everyone! French designer Matali Crasset has created this Paris hotel in collaboration with Patrick Elouarghi and Philippe Chatelet, where visitors check-in, order food and exchange tips on the city with other guests via the hotel’s online system and a plethora of screens throughout the building. More info…

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KOKET | LOVE HAPPENS – MADEMOISELLE ARMOIRE

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KOKET ‘s designers took the graceful lines in Parisian Art Noveau and applied them to their newest piece; the Mademoiselle Armoire.

Designed with a profound admiration and influence of the French decorative arts, the Mademoiselle Armoire will transport you to another world in a crazy beautiful kind of way.
The voluptuous style of the butterfly is carried out with unrestrained exuberance of form, color and line. Femininity, sublime elegance and artistry combined with an element of outrageous make the Mademoiselle a whimsical gem.
Intricate Butterfly in polished brass with luxurious silk lining. Interior door in polished brass, 8 antique mirror drawers; 2 adjustable bronze glass shelves.

Width: 120 Cm |47,24’’ | Depth: 52 Cm | 20,47’’ | Height: 210 Cm | 82,68’’

KOKET > LOVE HAPPENS



Cinematic Photography by Det Kempke

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Det Kempke, born 1963, grew up in Ummeln, a small village near Bielefeld in Westphalia. Does not sound exciting, it is not (laughs). Studying at the FH Dortmund, Dusseldorf, with detours through then in London, Paris and New York to Hamburg. Qualified designer and member of the BFF.

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Chinese disappointment

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the wings of Paris

Chinese disappointment is a project by Lei Hou explained that by sculptures are felt when she arrived in Paris for the first time.

Full project here



Colorful and vivid illustrations by Florence Bamberger

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Florence Bamberger: “I am a graphic designer/illustrator from Paris. I just graduated from ESAG Penninghen in Paris (MA in graphic design and art direction), before, I was at Central Saint Martins where I did my BA in graphic design.”

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Puma X Shinzo Bolt New Future

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The new Puma Bolt Near Future sneakers stand as a limited edition eco conscious team up by Puma and Paris retailer Shinzo inspired by Usain Bolt.

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Marchal Mithouard 3D Paintings

We have featured a lot of different kind of painters here at Paranoias, digital or traditional, realistic or surreal, but Marchal Mithouard (aka Shaka) takes painting to a all new level, literally. These are a series of works on canvas displayed at Galeries 208 in Paris from the French plastic artist who was influenced by multiple forms of expression like painting, sculptures, serigraph, photography and even tattooing. Higher resolutions images and more artworks can be found at this website.

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Wastelandscape

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Created by french artist Elise Morin and architect Clémence Eliard, ‘Wastelandscape’ overtakes the ‘Halle d’aubervilliers’ of Paris’s centquatre with an undulating landscape composed of 65,000 old CDs, sorted and hand-sewn together into a 500 square meter surface.

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Under the clouds

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“These images and these sounds were recorded during a travel from “Toulouse” to “Paris”, and from “Paris” to “Martinique”. We see the North and the South of “Martinique”, the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, during the rainy season in July, 2011.”

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Lunch at L’Hôtel de Paris

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It is one of those elite addresses that you quietly keep to yourself. L’Hôtel Paris belongs to a prestigious group of secret hideaways that you cannot help but be jealous of.

More mouth-watering images here.



Le Manoir de Paris : Paris’ haunted manor house

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Did you know that a haunted manor lies in the heart of Paris? We went to visit this recently opened attraction, and inspect the site for ourselves.

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make me droll

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“make me droll” rubber stamp set by italian artist “memi the rainbow” living in paris.

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