The Art Of Living In French Polynesia
Gray Malin has situated archetypal Mid-Century Modern designs by Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, and Knoll atop a floating 15 foot square mirrored platform handcrafted with the help of local engineers. Emphasizing the form of the furniture, ‘Art of Living‘ was photographed from a vantage point where the colossal Mount Otemanu presents a symmetrical and stunning backdrop. by situating stylized interior design elements in an unexpected outdoor setting, the series places natural and manmade beauty side-by-side, asking viewers to interpret the art of design in a new way. Continue reading »
French Artist Eyes Record With Giant Swiss Hillside Portrait
A painting, created by French artist Saype and said to be the world’s largest biodegradable painting is seen on the Chaux-de-Mont ski slope above the Alp resort of Leysin. The painting is made with flour, linseed oil, water and biodegradable natural pigments. Continue reading »
French Artist Creates Mind Blowing Trompe-L’oeil Illusions
Patrick Commecy, a talented street artist from France, makes these mind-bending hyper-realistic wall paintings. The before and after photos show the big difference these murals create. It is true that sometimes walls of a building can look really dull and boring, but Patrick has some mad skills to transform them into something amazing and beautiful. Continue reading »
Extraordinary Black And White Fashion Photography By John French In The 1950s And 1960s
John French (1906–1966) was one of London’s top fashion photographers of the 1950s and 1960s, an era when those who wore and photographed clothing for a living could become famous overnight. The models he worked with included the most famous of the time and many were debutantes who went on to become well-known society figures. John persuaded the art editors of the national press to use his flawlessly lit images of top models and his work appeared in virtually every newspaper and magazine. Continue reading »
French Artist Makes Louvre Pyramid ‘Disappear’ In Optical Illusion
Photo by Francois Mori / AP Photo
The French street artist known as “JR” has made the Louvre Pyramid in Paris disappear in an optical illusion created by covering the huge glass structure with a trompe l’oeil photo installation depicting the museum that surrounds it. Continue reading »
Artist Uses His Feet To Create Gigantic ‘Game Of Thrones’ Snow Art In French Alps
The French Alps has just got a “Game of Thrones” facelift (…no worries, Alps are still there). The British snow artist Simon Beck is gearing up for the next season of the popular show and warning people about the coming winter. Continue reading »
McDonald’s Introduces Chocolate-Covered French Fries To Japan
Photo: Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku
McDonald’s is attempting to reverse its sagging fortunes in Japan with the launch this week of a new menu item: french fries smothered in chocolate sauce. Continue reading »
These French Firefighters Have Released The Most Stunning 2016 Charity Calendar You’ve Ever Seen
Being a firefighter is one of the most noble, and at the same time one of the most dangerous professions in the world. These people put their lives at risk to save others every single day. Continue reading »
French Artist Restores Flea Market Paintings And Adds His Own Stories To Them
Introduced by Guy Debord and his revolutionary famous organization of International Situationist of Dadaism, the distortion is being reborn with the paintbrush of the young painter Blase. By discovering forgotten masters’ painting in flea markets, sometimes in a pitiful state, Blase (as Blasepheme) uses very academic techniques of restoration to modify the original painting. Like a fresh boost or facelift, the paintings get a second life. Continue reading »
Watch a Plane Take Off from This Runway in the French Alps
Courchevel Altiport (IATA: CVF, ICAO: LFLJ) is an altiport serving Courchevel, a ski resort in the French Alps. The airfield has a very short runway of only 537 metres (1,762 ft) with a gradient of 18.6%. Continue reading »
Think Nature – The New Vegetal Creations of French Designer Monsieur Plant
After his amazing project Just Grow It!, the vegetal sneakers, here is a selection of the latest creations of the French artist and designer Christophe Guinet, aka Monsieur Plant, based in Marseille, and his poetic nature-oriented projects. Continue reading »
French Designers Create A Tiny Bathroom In A Box
Bathroom design company Line Art, has created La Cabine for French company, La Fonction. Continue reading »
French Artist Recreates A Tropical Jungle With Amazing Hand-Cut Paper Pieces
French artist and paper designer Mlle Hipolyte has recreated a ‘tropical jungle’ using pieces of vibrantly colored paper, cut entirely by hand. the mural replicates the lush and diverse assortment of botanical life and greenery found in a rainforest environment. Continue reading »
French Photographer Sacha Goldberger Takes Our Favorite Superheros Back In Time
Sacha Goldberger is a French photographer that recently showed this series of work in an exhibition in Paris. It takes superheros and other characters back in time to the 16th century. Check out his website and Facebook page to see his other work and more pictures from this series. Sasha tries to answer the following questions:
What if Superman was born in the sixteenth century? And what if the Hulk was a Duke? How might Van Eyck have portrayed Snow White? Continue reading »
Self-Taught French Artist Creates Wistful Yet Heartwarming Creatures Fallen From The Stars
Anne-Marie Verron, a French artist, has given birth to a whole dream world. She creates textile sculptures under the name “The Bear Fallen from the Stars” (L’ours tombé des étoiles, in French). Each bear is unique and full of personality, it seems to have its very own story. Mohair and alpaca are scissor and needle sculpted to bring to life a new character. Continue reading »
French Artist Turns Everyday Objects into Playful Characters
With a creative eye, the casual observer can espy characters or faces in the everyday objects all around us. French artist Gilbert Legrand takes this a step further by painting and otherwise modifying totally mundane objects to turn them into cute characters and give them new life.
Legrand lets his active imagination soar by painting small details onto these everyday objects to help us see them the way he does. With the addition of a face and maybe some arms and legs, a paintbrush can become a mangled fox, a hinge can become a shady salesman, and a juicer becomes a woman emerging from a pool.
Hopefully, Legrand’s wildly imaginative creations will help you find the fun characters hidden all around you!
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New Glass Room in French Alps Offers Amazingly Scary View
A brand new installation in the French Alps, called Step Into the Void, opens today for those who are not afraid of heights. On the uppermost terrace of Aiguille du Midi, Europe’s highest mountain peak, sits a glass cube that looks like it’s suspended in mid-air. Now the tallest attraction in Europe, the structure has five transparent sides made of three layers of glass binded together. Of course, when you step into the box the most vertigo-inducing feeling will come when you look straight down through the glass floor to the dizzying view 3,395 feet (or 1,035 meters) below.
The attraction was inspired by the Grand Canyon’s Skywalk and was three years in the making. It was designed by Pierre-Yves Chays who custom built it “to the highest standards for safety and clarity.” If you’re brave enough to enter this glass cube, you’ll of course be rewarded with one of the most breathtaking 360° views in all of the world – of the French, Swiss and Italian Alps. Photo above: via Chamonix Continue reading »
2013 French Animal Calendar
Original handmade packaging method of the animal calendar. On the inside: ballpoint pen and watercolor drawings of Krisztina Vona. Continue reading »
The French Mouth Sticker by Frenchstickers
Pimp your Mac apple logo with amazing stickers! Take a look at “The French Mouth” sticker by Frenchstickers and buy it here.
Combo: Provocative French Street Art
On a recent trip to Chernobyl, French street artist Combo left behind something memorable: a mural of The Simpsons. Combo is known for using iconic characters to make a statement, and this image continues the trend. The nuclear power plant in the background looks a lot more menacing here, but I also think there’s something really interesting about such a happy, cheery image juxtaposed against the aftermath of a horrible tragedy. Continue reading »
French Photograher Captured Stunning Pictures Of Post-Soviet Holiday Camp In Artek, Crimea
Claudine Doury is a French photographer living in Paris.
She chose two main themes for her reports: exploring the changes in Eastern Europe, as well as the metamorphosis of juvenile period of life. In Paris in 2004, the book called: Artek, un été en Crimée (Artek, a summer in Crimea, Ukraine) of Claudine was published.
1. Svetlana, 1994.
The pictures were taken from 1994 until 2003. There are no boring staged or formal photos. All images of Claudine show the true story about the Artek life of children in there. Some people found the photos absolutely delightful, others subjected them to devastating criticism saying they are being inappropriate. Continue reading »
A Wind Turbine is Illuminated in an Installation by French Artist Patrick Raynaud
A man stands next to a wind generator of the Windwaerts Energie GmbH company equipped with coloured ligths on September 5, 2011 near Sehnde-Muellingen in the Hanover region, central Germany. On the occasion of the EXPO 2000 world exhibition, French artist Patrick Raynaud created the light installation, which draws its energy from the production of the wind turbine – the more wind, the more intensive the luminance of the coloured dots. (JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE/AFP/Getty Images) Continue reading »
French Vogue Has Caused Outrage by Printing Provocative Pictures of a 10 Year Old Model
The shots show Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau posing on leopard print cushions, sporting a full face of make-up and wearing skimpy, cut-away clothes. In other images the pre-teen pouts while applying lipstick and dons a metallic dress with the front cut to the waist. The pictures have reignited the debate about the sexualisation of young girls. The daughter of French international footballer Patrick Blondeau and TV presenter Veronika Loubry, Thylane has been modelling since she was five and is hotly tipped to be fashion’s next big thing.
What’s wrong with this crazy World? Continue reading »
