She is 40 years old and remains one of the biggest or should I say tallest controversy in the Paris skyline. Montparnasse tower opened in 1973, lonely, at the top of rue de Rennes, on the edge of Saint Germain des prés. 210 meters high, 59 floors, the tower remaind the tallest office building in…
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Along with Mies Van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret aka Le Corbusier is the inventor of the modern architectural movement in the 1920s. Born in Switzerland, he will first learn watchmaking after his father but will soon start travelling around Europe to discover more. In Paris, in the 1910s, he will work in…
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After one hundred and seventy years on the right bank, Hermès has decided to cross the Seine and embrace the future with a new store. A forgotten art déco swimming pool built in 1935 that kept its original mosaics and décor, listed as a Historic Monument since 2005, has become the new Hermès concept store…
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