Very Limited Edition of our iconic paper cut maps, these unique risograph prints in pop colours will brighten up your desk wall or your favourite room!
I love risograph prints as they have a lovely grainy quality, each colour is added onto the paper layer by layer that makes each print totally unique.
The following maps available are: La France, the World, Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, New York City, San Francisco and Tokyo.
Very Limited Edition of our iconic paper cut maps, these unique risograph prints in pop colours will brighten up your desk wall or your favourite room!
I love risograph prints as they have a lovely grainy quality, each colour is added onto the paper layer by layer that makes each print totally unique.
The following maps available are: La France, the World, Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, New York City, San Francisco and Tokyo.
For my birthday - back early March- my wish was to have a week-end away on my own in Paris. Thanks to my amazing husband this happened last week-end and I had such a fantastic time. The kids (Téo is one year old, Ophelia nearly 10 and Lucien 6) were just so excited to spend a couple of days just with their dad, it made me feel like I should go away more often!
I took a pile of magazines and my sketchbook on the train and I had a big smile on my face pretty much for 3h30.
My sister Milou was waiting for me at Gare du Nord and took me out to this delicious and cosy restaurant near République called Elmer. If you like fresh, organic and well presented food in hand made ceramic plates then go there. Our table was not available when we arrived so we sat at the bar and they offered us a plate of hand made paté with a glass of Côte de Provence. What a nice thing to do.
I woke up Saturday, the sun was shinning so I jumped on a Vélib and off I went cycling through the streets of Paris. I'm much happier to move around town on a bike whether it's in Amsterdam or Paris.
I stopped for quite a long time at Sennelier one of the older art shop in Paris on the left bank. I tried different pencils, brushes and left with a bag full of new pencils and notebooks. Fun. The rest of my day was spent doing sketches at a café or two, shopping and visiting art galleries.
I really enjoyed to just have time for myself, not look a the time and not have any plans (things you cannot do with 3 children!).
I met up with my best friend Anais in the evening at the local Fujita Japanese restaurant near Pyramide. We've known each other since we were 5 years old. We met at the Waldorf Steiner school in Chatou back in the Eighties! Ah! A long time now!
On Sunday morning I went to see the exhibition Picasso. Sculptures at the Musée Picasso in Le Marais.
The museum reopened in 2014 after 5 years of refurbishment but I never had the chance to visit the place since then. The exhibition was really beautiful but I have to say I was even more amazed by the interior of the museum. The sculpted ceilings of the main staircase are magnificent. The sun was shining through the large windows bringing a warm glow to the stone floor and blue-grey painted doors.
Later that morning I met my French family for brunch at Beaucoup and then jumped back on the train back to Amsterdam with the same big smile on my face.
Adeline Klam is a French designer who is passionate about Japan, origami paper and bright colours. She has the most beautiful shop in Paris in the 11th arrondissement where she sells a variety of colourful Japanese papers, fabrics, stationeries and books and also offers workshops to make beautiful paper flowers like these:
Make your own paper flowers kit.
Before we are heading back to Amsterdam (sadly it's the end of the Summer holidays for us) I wanted to share with you some snapshots of my detour to Merci shop while I was in Paris at the end of July. I stayed at my sister's flat who lives very close by Merci, so I went for a fresh mint tea with her and looked around the super nice concept shop with the oh so nice bed linen!
Tsé-Tsé April vase:
I love Paris in August: it is warm and sunny, the parisian have gone further South on holidays (most French people take a long break in the month of August), it is quiet, most of the shops are closed so no temptation and you can park for free in the streets :-)
Deyrolle, rue du Bac. Lucien and Ophelia in the Jardin des Tuileries.
Merci, Boulevard Beaumarchais (11th) and Nanashi rue de Paradis (10th).
We escaped to Paris for the weekend to visit our family and wonder on the riverside and the Jardin des Tuileries with the children. We went to see the Typorama exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Our short trip was actually an excuse to come to France to eat a galette des rois...
A few days ago I met my friend Helena from Agence Violette for a coffee in the lovely café Loustic (decorated by the interior designer of the moment Dorothée Meilichzon: Café Pinson, Mojo, Fish Club...).
Café Loustic 40, rue Chapon Paris 3ème.
© crédit photos KRISTEN PELOU
We then walked to Le Petit Atelier de Paris which I have heard about but never had a chance to visit... Unfortunately it was closed when we got there (it is only open from Thursday to Saturday from 13h until 19h). The window display was so charming with the hanging ceramic house & the dog made of wire, the lighting star and delicate bowls. I will certainly go back but in the meantime you can have a look here to discover more designs.
Le Petit Atelier de Paris, 31 Rue de Montmorency, Paris 3ème.
We will be visiting Maison & Objet on saturday to be inspired and see friends in the evening. Hopefully the weather will be as beautiful.
What are you up to?
This is a photo I took on my phone last weekend at the village fête while on holidays in the South West of France. I wish I was still there!
I don't know why I waited so long to mention the beautiful stationary range from Papier Tigre? I discovered their first collection at Maison et Objet back in January and I have to say their paper collection (notebooks, cards and perpetual calendars) really blew me away.
By looking at the beautiful geometrical patterns and the hand made finish behind their products, you can really tell that the French designers based in the 10th arrondissement in Paris are truly loving what they do. Their paper products are designed and printed in France on 100% recycle paper, the long perpetual calendar is printed in the UK.
Le Papier Temps Moderne, a perpetual wall calendar.
Le Pose Temps, 12 heavy sheets to display as you wish for a perpetual calendar.
On the left: Les Tri-Angles, 8 ready to fold triangle shaped boxes to hang on your wall.
On the right: Les Modernes, A6 note book printed in France on 100% recycle paper.
Papier Tigre can personalized a range of cards, business cards and birth cards. You only have to type your text online and it will be shipped 10 days later to your doorstep.
Les 6 Architectes part of a set of 6 different cards.
I was delighted to receive in the post the new Edition Paumes book: Paris Deco Ideas for Kid's Rooms. The book is full of design details and interior inspiration grouped in different themes such as Walls, Fashion & Textile, Colour, Toys, Little Ideas etc...Ophelia and Lucien's bedroom is featured amongs others beautiful and quircky bedrooms of creative families (Petit Pan, Agence Violette, The Collection, Charlotte Gastaut, Olivelse....)
Hi! Bonjour! We are back to our cosy studio after 5 days exhibiting our collection at Maison et Objet in the north of Paris. For a lot of people it has been rather difficult to get to the show as the airport closed down for a few hours, flights and trains were delayed due to the heavy snowfall. But despite the bad weather, we had a great time catching up with old friends and meeting new people.
This time we had a corner stand (they are highly sought after!) and we were surrounded by fantastic companies such as Engel , Oeuf be Good, Laurette and Anne-Claire Petit.
These are a few snapshots from our stand that I took with my phone so I apologise for the poor quality of the photos!
I made a little display of our beautiful photos styled by Aurelie Lecuyer.
We presented our new mug and tray from the collection Un Dimanche à Paris. The new products will be available on our website next week. Also on display are our new tray and mug from Morning in Manhattan collection and the book from Edition Paumes Be Creative with Famille Summerbelle. Our tea towels and cushions are nicely packed in this new brown card and white triangles packaging.
I made 2 wooden swings with bright neon pink strings to hold our promotional cards. Behind are hanging the colourful paper honeycombs by our Dutch neighbour Engel.
Over the next few days I will pull together photos to show you my favourite brands and products I spotted at the show.
This week we are setting up our stand at Maison et Objet trade show in the north of Paris. We are very excited to go back as exhibitors for the second time around (our first show there was back in September). We have a bigger, corner stand (hurray!) so if you visit the show, come say hello!
Apologies for not posting much while the show is on. I'll be back very soon...
Le Marché Saint Pierre (also known as Dreyfus) is the place to visit if you are looking for all sorts of fabric and haberdashery in Paris. It is located in the very touristic area of Montmatre. I've just been today to buy some linen to make cushions and 3 meters of bright pink tulle to make a tutu for Ophelia!
By French photographer Laurent Chehere. The Flying Houses series are on show until 8th December at the Galerie Paris-Beijing, 54 rue Vertbois, Paris 3ème.
Hundreds and hundreds of cadenas d'amour (love locks or wish locks) on the Pont des Arts in Paris.To symbolise their love couples are hanging a padlock with their initials on the barriers of the bridge and then throw the keys in the river Seine!
I started my day in Merci meeting up with the lovely Emilie from Lait Fraise chatting about work, children and the difficult task of finding a home in the East side of Paris!
Afterwards I had a little look around Merci, Bonton next door and few shops in the charming rue de Bretagne.
This cane and leather chair is on my wish list...
Beautiful dinnerware colours designed by Russel Wright (Made by Bauer pottery, Los Angeles)
Malle W. Trousseau is a present made to last a lifetime offering in one huge box the finest ever made kitchen utensils.
Love neon sign, Bonton.
Cute cat rug from Bobo Choses at Bonton.
I quickly jumped on a Velib to check French Trotters and Little French Trotters, rue de Charonne. They have a great selection of some of my favourite brands Polder, Médecine Douce, Avril Gau, Bobo Choses, Blah Blah Kids...
Lunch at Cuisine de Bar open sandwiches served with Poilâne bread, rue Debelleyme 75003.
As we were crossing Le Pont de Arts last weekend, we stopped in this charming little shop Charvin specialised in extra fine oils, acrylic and gouaches. The range of colours is very impressive. The minute I walked in I wanted to start painting again...
On saturday, we went for a walk across the river Seine from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France to the Parc de Bercy and the Cité de la Mode et Du Design. On the top photo you can see the Joséphine Baker swimming pool on a barge. I'd love to go one day with the children. When the weather is nice the roof opens up so you swim over looking the river Seine.
On Sunday morning, we were all awake at 6am, thanks to Ophelia who was so excited to show us the few coins left under the pillow from the tooth fairy. She is now proudly showing her big top front teeth gap.
Our morning was spent at le Grand Palais to see the Buren exhibition Monumenta.
8m x 6m wall art by Matt W. Moore. The Portland based artist did this mural as part of his Cristal and Lasers show at Since Utopian gallery in Paris in 2010. He is now back at the gallery until mid June to present his new work Gravity.
Seen on Unurth Street Art.
Last week we had the visit from our dear friends Coco and Hisashi from Edition Paumes. They very kindly offered us a selection their latest books: Lovely Tea Time in Paris, Finland Children's room and Tokyo Home Ateliers. From now on I have decided to carry in my handbag the Lovely Tea Time book every time I am in Paris. I no longer want to have a coffee in a random café. It should be served with a delicious cake like in La Pâtisserie des Rêves
Finland Children's room
Lovely Tea Time in Paris
Tokyo Home Ateliers
