Famille Summerbelle

The Guide to Paris with Children

I am very excited to share with you the new book by New York based travel editor The Little Bookroom. I am pleased to have the illustration from our collection Un Dimanche à Paris featured on the cover.

The Little Bookroom Guide to Paris with Children by Kim Horton Levesque is a very well documented guide for sophisticated parents who wants to have fun with their children in Paris.
I love the size of the book as it is small enough to put in your handbag and carry everywhere.
It is organised around places to Play, Eat, shop and Stay.
You will find museums, the best parks and activities to do with your children. Child friendly restaurants,cafés and features all the best boutiques for French children's toys and clothing and even yoga classes with your child in the Jardin du Luxembourg!
The author also recommends trustworthy childcare, english-speaking playgroups, seasonal events for families and rainy days ideas!

Tip Tap book

I bought this interactive book for Ophelia as she's learning to read at the moment at school. Tip Tap is a French book with a CD included. It's from Anouck Boisrobert the same designer who did a Popville. It's very easy and fun to play with to learn new words and make animated sceneries. I have to say I also loved the book straight away for the beautiful illustrations.

Seasons

Or Saisons in French is a beautiful hardback book by French illustrator Blexbolex. I love the bold screen printed illustrations and the limited choice of colours as it makes the images very powerful.

The book is available here in English, and here in French. Published by Albin Michel.
Merci Chloé pour ce beau cadeau!

Cosy bookstore

If only we had a bookstore like this one in Paris. House of Foundation is located in Moss in Norway. I love everything about the space, the loft style white wooden floor, retro furniture (I quite like the yellow cupboard at the back), large bookshelves, gallery, coffee shop and it also offers artist studios on the second floor. I can see myself moving in straight away.

Seen in Le Voyage Créatif.

Flora inspiration

I highly recommend Flora by photographer Nick Knight. The photos and colours are stunning. They are pressed flowers selected from the herbarium of the Museum of Natural History in London by Knight (he spent 3 and a half years choosing from among the six million specimens contained in the herbarium). Impressive!

Sorry for the quality of the photos that I took, not the best i'm afraid...

Papier Maché 1st print issue

At last something interesting in the post. The first printed magazine issue by Papier Maché arrived this morning, Yeah! The cover says it all 'beautiful on the inside'...and bonus, the Paris canvas bag is featured. Congratulation Beck & all your talented team. I am so impressed.

Cover Papier Maché.
Photos of the beautiful world of Mor Mor Rita.

Chocolats à Paris

We had the pleasure to be invited yesterday evening to the bookstore La Cocotte (Paris 11th arrondissement) for the launch of Chocolats à Paris by Edition Paume. Fumie Shimoji and Aya Ito were there from Japan with their team who worked on the book. There was a large table full of delicious chocolate delicacies. Lucien and Ophelia had a great time as you can imagine! I love La Cocotte bookstore, they specialize in very creative cookery books and they have also a good selection of design books. We left the party with 3 books: The Genius of French Poster Art by Hervé Morvan, London Kitchens and London Family Style books by Paumes (to add to my growing collection!).

Sukie notebooks

My favourite notebook from Sukie looks like a vintage novel:

Papier Maché Issue 3

The beautiful Australian Papier Maché online mag is now out...

Popville book

I can wait to receive my copy of PopVille (by Corraini editions) from Present & Correct. As you can see it's a pop-up book in which each page corresponds to a moment of the city development. It was designed by 2 French illustrators Anouck Boisrobert and Louis Rigaud. I think it will end up in my bookshelf in my office rather than in the children's bedroom!

Once-A-Year book

Thanks to Vanessa from Bozaround for posting about Laikonik 'Once-A-Year' book. This nicely illustrated book allows you to create a precious record of photographs and stories of your child first 18 years. The concertina pages unfold the story of your child growing over the years. The book comes in a protective hand stitched felt bag. I need to start 2 books straight away for Lucien and Ophelia...


I also love the screenprinted wrapping paper with the Polish folk art designs.

Paris Family Style

A very big THANK YOU/MERCI to Edition Paumes for asking us to be part of their new book Paris Family Style. I have previously mentioned their Children's room London, Stockholm and Paris on the blog. It is a real pleasure discover the homes of creative Parisian families (Petit Pan, Olivesle, The Collection, April Showers just to mention a few)

Diaries

Cute little diary seen on a Korean website Babosarang. I bought similar diaries when we were in Japan last year. I just love the little characters,the colours and all the little details: stickers, note tags...






Seen in Print Pattern blog

Paris made by hand

The new book Paris made by hand by stylist Pia Jane Bijkerk is now available. For lovers of all things handmade, French, Parisian...

Papier Maché Déco supplément

My favorite online magazine Papier Maché has just released a Déco supplement of Children's rooms and it has been illustrated by the talented Laura Callaghan.
The contributors are designers like Apolline à Paris, Morghan from Little Circus, Allison at Larkmark, Famille Summerbelle (well Ophelia's bedroom) and many more.
You can download it from their website Papier Maché for just $3.
At the end of the PDF mag you have a long list of the best online kids shops selected by the team of Papier Maché and sorted by categories:Walls, Deco, Furniture, Unique...It's worth every penny!

Papier Maché

That's the name of a new free online magazine for kids that comes twice a year and created by talented people from Sydney. I wish it would be out more often as it's a pleasure to read and to look at. Beautiful illustrations and photos of interiors. The best of children's fashion and accessories and you get lots of great shop addresses from all over the World. Click here to read it.

Children's rooms 'London-Paris-Stockholm'.

Today was like Christmas again. A big parcel from Japan arrived at the door. I love it! I always get very excited when a parcel arrives, but even more when it's from Japan. It was our order of books from our favorite shop in Tokyo:Gallerie Doux Dimanche.
It's also a small publishing company called Paumes owned by Fumie and her husband who is a photographer and took all the photos for their books.
'Edition PAUMES is a small and dynamic family run Japanese publishers, working in close contact with artists and designers in Europe on different editorial projects. With a poetic and original approach, édition PAUMES explores the environments of those who stimulate the creative industries, and in doing has produced a set creative "bibles" that overflow with inspiration'.

We had the chance to meet Fumie while we were in Tokyo last October. She introduced us to her fabulous shop and to her book collection. Galllerie Doux Dimanche is now our first retailer in Japan selling our Family Trees and we are now the proud retailer of their books on Children's rooms.

If you are an interior lover and are looking for ideas to decorate your child's bedroom, then you will love these books.

The ones we have selected feature well-styled, creative and original bedrooms from real people living in different cities. Each room is unique with a personal touch (hand made toys, paintings, blankets...). At the end of each book you get a City guide of the best shops for kids and the best children's books.

The books are written in Japanese but it's really not a problem as there are so many beautiful images to look at for hours.

If you'd like to get your hands on one of these books, then you will be able to see and purchase ('Children's Rooms London', 'Children's rooms Paris' and 'Children's rooms Stockholm') exclusively (in the UK) at Kids Modern show in Dulwich London on Sunday 15th February.

livres d'enfants

I was very excited to discover 3 little children's books at my mums house. They belong to my uncle Filipandre who probably started his life long passion for illustration drawing in these books. I love the colours and the quirky characters.