Chez Moi, For Now…

Posted on July 15th, 2010 in Decor

Beinvenue chez moi!

Come inside…

Moving so much lately has made me think about the importance of home. When I moved to Paris I knew no one here and barely spoke three sentences of French. I gathered my most cherished trinkets, photographs, and clothing into four cases and flew them across the ocean knowing they would be the only familiarity once I got there. My home is everything to me, and your home is what you make it. I made my home here with so little and have built upon it ever since, even though home has been in several apartments over these two years. I am finally ready to settle down and buy my own place here, but before I can get to that I have to fly back and forth between Paris and New York City in the coming months to iron out some hick ups with my working visa. For now I call this little doll house like studio on a quite courtyard of the Marais my Paris home. I hope you enjoyed a peek inside…

P.S. If you are looking for some special little trinkets, the Bardot Boutique has now branched into items for the home!

Chez Derrière Pour Mon Anniversaire

Posted on July 1st, 2010 in Decor, Fashion, Holidays, Les Bons Plans

I have been wanting to share one of my favorite places to go in Paris with you for a while. Derrière is a fun and delicious restaurant for lunch or dinner located in the Marais. Knowing how much I love it there, my friend Nora surprised me with lunch reservations for my birthday for us and our dear friend Lauren. There couldn’t have been a better way to spend the special afternoon! Now press play and sing it with me…I got hugs for you if you were born in the 80’s…the 80’s!

We kicked things off with some pink champagne…

Which quickly put everyone in a great mood…

…exhibit A….Nora!

The concept behind Derrière is that you are meant to feel as if you are dining over at someone’s (very cool) house rather than a restaurant. So nothing is concerned with matching or a clear design approach.

Upstairs you will find this magical armoire. Open up its doors and pass through to arrive inside…

The fumoir!

Cluttered with curiosities that looks much like a trip down the rabbit hole.

In one of the upstairs dining rooms instead of a bench you are sat on a king size bed with a rather kinky mirror hanging above.

Even the toilette room is special as a bathtub replaces a normal sink when it comes time to wash your hands.

After our main course we moved outside to the sunny patio…

…and moved on to a second bottle of champagne!

…and of coarse dessert!

Want to know what I wished for?

Lauren’s awesome cowboy boots from the 70’s passed down to her from her mom.

Candy surprises!

And thoughtful and funny gifts

These shoes were my birthday gift to myself!

They are made by No Collection.

I wore them with a Manoush silk dress, Les Canotiers du Marais bowler hat, and vintage Emanuelle Kahn sunglasses.

After two bottles of champagne and lots of food we were exhausted, hehe.

Derrière

69 rue des Gravilliers

Paris 3ème

P.S. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for all of your sweet birthday wishes. Your kind thoughtful words never cease to bring a smile to my face

Animal House

Posted on June 3rd, 2010 in Art, Decor

I recently went to an exposition of some of Karen Knorr’s photographs from her Fables series at the Musée du Carnavalet in Paris. The works were a collaboration between the famous Deyrolle and Knorr, photographing animal in the many of the great palaces of France. From the exposition amongst Knorr’s photographs featured you could also spot Deyrolle’s taxidermy animals were placed amongst the former palace. Here is a myriad and mélange of my photos of the Deyrolle of the animals in the beautiful interiors au Musée du Carnavalet (the jardin as well) and her works.

P.S. If you don’t yet know one of my favorite blogs Secrets of a Butterfly please visit her incredibly sweet post about Bardot in Blue and the rest of all the wonderful things being shared in that little piece of heaven.

Blue & White Giveaway

Posted on April 23rd, 2010 in Decor, Fashion, Giveaway

Bardot in Blue and Berlin Deluxxe’s Once Upon a White are inviting you to step through the doors into a world of blue & white! If you haven’t guessed from the name of this blog, blue is my absolute favorite color. In honor of our blue and white blogs Berlin Deluxxe suggested to host a give away with the amazing book Decorating with Blue & White. Deciding it was a great idea and an appropriate time for me to finally explain my follie for the color blue, I am letting you into my very blue world for this special post. There should be enough blue eye candy here to last you the weekend…

From my wardrobe…

…to the window shopping of Paris I live la vie en blu.

I feel like Paris is just a city painted from a palette of pale blue skies…

and bright blue building facades.

My vanity in blue and white…

…and even my groceries.

My glasses and table decor too as I find the most amazing long stem blue roses at the local flower shop.

There are so many shades of blue! From dark blue…

…to that famous Tiffany blue…

…and Robin’s egg blue, I like them all!

A beautiful pair of blue and white figures I fittingly refer to as Marie and Louis French-Kissed gave me this Christmas.

A would love to have this blue daybed that I photographed at the Fragonard museum in the South of France chez moi.

With white washed buildings, grey blue roofs ,and a sky like this the most beautiful days in the city come in blue and white…

…as do the nights.

So if your fancying some blue and white…

…then there is plenty to be had over in the Bardot Boutique!

For your chance to win this amazing giveaway of Decorating with Blue & White visit and comment on…

Berlin Deluxxe’s Once Upon a White

Pâques Chez Ladurée

Posted on April 5th, 2010 in Decor, Gourmandise, Holidays

I know I already did an Easter post, and that it’s not Easter anymore. But I also know it would be a shame for you all to miss out on this year’s Easter spirit at Ladurée. I hope I am not overwhelming you all with chocolate and cuteness in my last couple of posts but everything is just so pretty and sweet for the season here that I have been taking too many photos! I didn’t go to Ladurée Easter day but I stopped in on Saturday for a Salad Concorde at the one on the Champs Elysées, and of coarse to take in some eye candy.

My favorite is the upstairs blue room but I never get sat in there! However the other rooms aren’t bad as you can see the wedding cake walls and ceilings and the beautiful chandelier.

Even the butter is beautiful.

I usually get the Marie Antoinette tea but this time I switched it up and got Thé a la rose…and it was splendid.

I took my cute little chocolate home, hehe.

The window displays were to die for.

That giant chocolate pistachio egg looked amazing!

For my Easter basket my sweetheart bought me a little Ladurée egg of my own.

Tied with this cute little ribbon…

Crack it open…

And there is even more chocolate inside!

Also for my Easter basket my sweetheart’s mom was so sweet and left me this adorable little pink Ladurée bunny box! It was hard to wait two days till Easter to see what was inside.

Mais voila! When I finally did these rainbow bunnies were snuggling inside. These are definitely too cute to eat so I didn’t open them yet but they rattle so I suspect there is some candy inside of them as well!

They  look small but they are actually quite big.

Enough to share! Wish you were here!

It rained all weekend but as normal when it rains in Paris it pours and then there is some time when the sky is blue filled with puffy clouds before it starts raining again.

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter holiday!

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