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La Cave des Papilles

Text by Omid Tavallai & Images by Matthew Rose

The story has almost become a cliché in what's hot and exciting in Paris: A young upstart with no formal training. Someone who bailed on a corporate career to pursue an unrelated passion. A DIY ethos guiding rebellion against the well-rooted establishment.

This is not the story at La Cave des Papilles just off Marché Daguerre in the 14th.

Meet Florian - one of the three members of a tightly knit crew ("We work like a family," he says) that runs La Cave des Papilles. He knows his wines. He's been in the field for fifteen years, since finishing hotelier school and specializing in the subject. His biggest career shift was leaving his post as sommelier to Michelin-starred chefs… only to delve further into his tipple of passion as a caviste.

Of course, as the story often goes, he knows all of his producers personally. But we're not talking about a handful of obscure, craft wines. La Cave des Papilles stocks 900 to 1000 different wines at any given time. 80% of which are vins naturels, "natural wines."

"It's in the same realm as bio (organic) wine, but even more purist. As far as organic wines go, the organic part only applies to how the grapes are grown," Florian says. "Natural wines are more concerned with keeping the whole process natural."

"Our mission is to be the ambassadors of natural wines in Paris."

Paris' Alternative Nightlife

Text: Rooksana Hossenally
Image: Hip House

Needless to say that Paris doesn’t quite have a bustling nightlife to rival London or New York, but it does have its fair share of quirky and traditional bars, restaurants and cabarets, as well as a number of alternative arty music events in venues all over the city. Popular with the capital’s ‘in’ crowd, venues like La Bellevilloise and La Maroquinerie in the 20th, Point Ephémère in the 10th, Glaz’Art in the 19th and Mains d’Oeuvres at Porte de Saint-Ouen are experiencing a rise in popularity, and it’s not hard to see why. The events held at these venues often combine art and music in quirky unusual spaces that have quickly become the place to be seen, especially for those of you dying to be part of the Paris Boho scene!

La Bellevilloise boasts a 2000m2 surface area divided up into five different spaces: the Loft and Forum, used for art exhibitions; La Halle aux Oliviers (The Olive Tree Hall), the venue’s restaurant, where art is also displayed and where concerts are held; the Club, which welcomes a range of bands from both ends of the spectrum and anywhere in between;  and the Screening Room, where films and video installations are projected. You could easily see anything from a Jazz sound system to a band of musicians dressed like Canadian gypsies banging out Irish folk music. 

 

Parisian Fashion Bloggers à Suivre

 

Image: Danielle Voirin © Vingt Paris    Text: Natalie Turturro

To me, fashion isn’t just about pulling off eclectically mixed and matched color palettes and patterns.  I define fashion as the visual way I construct my reality -- not only how I adorn my body, but also my bedroom, my notebooks, my garden. In this way, the things that I possess also possess a part of me.  It’s about taking the inward and bringing it outward on visual terms….and I found some bloggers who seem to agree:

Les Rendezvous des Réalisateurs: Where to Find Filmmakers in Paris

Image: Raymond Cauchetier    Text: Jon Handelman

Patti Smith, in her poignant if not over-exposed National Book Award winning memoire, Just Kids, describes artistic life in New York in the 60s and 70s among artists, writers, painters, photographers, musicians and everything in between. What she paints is an idyllic landscape of creators supporting one another with their endeavors, an incubator of sorts of young artists, stewing in their creative juices and newly emerging talents. I wondered if such a place currently exists in Paris for young filmmakers. A place where the next generation of filmmakers not only hang out, but go to seek out each other’s creative wisdom, if not financial and emotional support, for the dizzying endeavor of making one’s own film.  Basically, I was looking for the filmmaker's version of the Chelsea Hotel of Paris.

Paris' Best Art & Craft Supply Stores

Image: Anne S. Ditmeyer     Text: Anne S. Ditmeyer & Natalie Turturro

With so much wonderful art and so many incredible museums in Paris, we thought it was high time we put together a guide to help encourage some creative juices and get people making a little art of their own. Besides, many of these places are worth a visit even if you don't plan on making anything yourselves.

Lavrut
52 passage Choiseul, 75002
An art supply shop in the 2nd with a new e-boutique.

Weber
9 rue de Poitou, 75003; 66 rue de Turenne, 75003
The place to go for your metal and plastic needs.

Rogier et Plé
13-15, boulevard des Filles du Calvaire, 75003
Magasin Graphigro: 157 – 159, rue Lecourbe, 75015; 5 Ter Cité Voltaire, 75011
Their location in the 3e is the mecca of craft stores for anything from felt to crepe paper, clay or poster board. It is a true "arts & crafts" store with several floors to get lost in.

Monumenta 2012: an alien forest emerges at the Grand Palais

Text and images: Rooksana Hossenally

Today is the official opening of one of Europe’s biggest contemporary art events, Monumenta, taking place at Paris’s Grand Palais. Each year, Monumenta invites invites an internationally renowned contemporary artist to appropriate the Grand Palais Nave with an artwork specially created for the event.  This year features EXCENTRIQUE(S), travail in situ, by Daniel Buren, one of France’s most famous artists best known for his permanent installation, Les Deux Plateaux, (1985-1986), the mod-ish garden of black and white striped columns in the courtyard of the Palais Royal.

Today, Buren’s trademark monochrome stripes have become a symbol intrinsic to his work, as well as his manipulation of light, colour, materials and space, which he uses to construct a certain perception of his installations in the viewer.

It is in fact by this emblematic stripe pattern that viewers are welcomed into the Grand Palais Nave at the north entrance. While the south entrance has traditionally been used to enter the Nave for the past two decades, the artist was invited to the monumental challenge of creating an installation for the Nave on one condition: that the north entrance be used as the starting point of the exhibition.

Paris Triennale 2012: “Intense Proximity” and the Question of Audience

Benoît Pype: Fabrique du résiduel

Images and text:  Benjamin Evans

The work on view at Intense Proximité, the 2012 Paris Triennale, brings together the work of several generations of artists from all over the globe, all working in diverse media and contexts, to the Palais de Tokyo. The exhibition is intended to blur lines between artistic and ethnographic investigation, and aims to address “the more salient question of how to live with disjunction”. So at some level, the exhibition is overtly an attempt to engage in issues of broader public concern.

Yet I can’t help but wonder: who is the audience for this exhibition? The obvious answer, given that it is held at a huge public art gallery, is The General Public, and in particular the public who live in a world of mixed cultures growing increasingly close to one another. However, much of the structure of this massive exhibition contradicts this simple answer. Instead, it seems to me that the show is for the small minority group concerned with contemporary art.

Her Royal Majesty Returns

Image: Her Royal Majesty

Text: Tristan Stansbury Worthington

She just couldn't stay away. Yes, that's right, Her Royal Majesty is back and on 11th May will be taking up residence for one night only at 59 Rivoli for a celebration of the exotic. Expect a rip-roaring journey of discovery in an extravaganza of literary, artistic and musical delights.

"Hang on," I hear you thinking to to yourself, "the Queen, in a squat, at a party celebrating the exotic with books and stuff? Doesn't sound like your common or garden royal reception to me." And you'd be right, Sherlock. I mean, is she really going to take time out of her busy diamond jubilee schedule for a jaunt to Paris? The 11th May will in fact see the launch of the 12th edition of that venturesome literary review, that ark of the arts, that bastion of the bold, Her Royal Majesty.

May God bless her and all who sail in her on a voyage to uncharted lands as this year the review heads in search of the exotic. Many are the adventurers who have taken up the challenge, with writings from James Franco (yes – the actor), Robert Hass, Sheila Heti, Anne Marsella and Ibrahim Abdel Meguid. This new edition also includes artworks exploring the same theme by Anne Simpson, Matthew Rose and Stuart Dischell. A particular highlight is the publication of celebrated writer Alice Munro's very first short story.

On 11th May, HRM will once again venture beyond the confines of its rich and creative paper incarnation. Following the evening of cultural discovery that was the launch of the 11th Edition back in November (James Franco may not have made an appearance, but it was a great night nonetheless), the event on 11th May will boldly go where no man has been before. Well alright, not quite, but still – the line-up looks pretty impressive. Confirmation of James Franco's appearance is yet to be received, but so far an exotic array of acts are set to occupy all six floors of 59 Rivoli and will include readings of the new review, live art performance, a working a printing press, digital dance, and music from Le Son du Métro, a collection of the greatest Parisian buskers.

And if that wasn't incentive enough, in exchange for a donation guests will each receive a hand-painted playing card print by Rosy Lamb and the person who receives the Queen of Hearts will win a print by the artist.

So if you were looking for a change of air, look no further and let HRM take you on a journey to the realm of the exotic.

Her Royal Majesty – 12th Issue Launch Party. Entry by donation.
11th May 2012
59 rue de Rivoli 75001 Paris

For this special issue, the team at HRM has organized a series of simultaneous launch parties across the world. If you can't make the party in Paris, you can always celebrate in London, New York, Berlin, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax.

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