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The Wild Men of Paris

Gelett Burgess' influential essay from May 1910 introduced French modern art to the United States.

February 29, 2016

In 1910, Cubism was beginning to make itself known, though some of the artists that Gelett Burgess, a draftsman and illustrator by trade, writes of, such as Picasso, had already made something of a mark (the "Blue Period" was several years in the past). But this essay, which Burgess shopped around before having it purchased by Architectural Record, has become known as a seminal work on this group, even though it is not taken entirely seriously.

Christian Louboutin Beauty Store

The Lacquered Life: A tiny Parisian boutique devoted to a new line of nail polish by Christian Louboutin beckons to the beau monde.

Hattie Hartman

May 16, 2015

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A tiny Parisian boutique devoted to a new line of nail polish by Christian Louboutin beckons to the beau monde.

Maison Ullens Paris

Soft Sell: The rich materials of a flagship boutique mirror the quiet luxury of the clothing brand.

Hattie Hartman

May 16, 2015

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The rich materials of a flagship boutique mirror the quiet luxury of the clothing brand.

Fondation Louis Vuitton Auditorium

Josephine Minutillo

December 16, 2014

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The bucolic backdrop of the recently opened Fondation Louis Vuitton, set within Paris’s Bois de Boulogne park, inspired a garden building in the tradition of Joseph Paxton’s long-destroyed Crystal Palace. Like that famous structure, erected in London’s Hyde Park in 1851, Frank Gehry’s billowing new museum features vast expanses of glass.

Fondation Louis Vuitton

Sacré Bleu!: High over the treetops in the Bois de Boulogne, Frank Gehry’s contemporary art museum for a French luxury magnate is an astonishing work of architectural couture.

Cathleen McGuigan

October 16, 2014

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The Fondation Louis Vuitton (FLV), designed by Frank Gehry, may appear transparent, but it is a building that doesn’t easily give up its secrets.

Invisible Kitchen

i29 Interior Architects uses decorative wall panels and an optical trick to create a vanishing kitchen inside a Paris apartment.

Tracy Metz

September 16, 2014

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In one particularly humorous episode, the old television program Candid Camera tried to sell a house that had no toilets. (It was remarkable how many potential buyers didn't notice the defect.)

Maison Escalier

In Paris, Moussafir Architectes' Maison Escalier puts a twist on a bachelor pad, cantilevering each room off a spiral stair core.

Laura Raskin

February 15, 2013

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Paris-based architect Jacques Moussafir laughed and then had to count out loud when asked exactly how many floors exist in the 1,650-square-foot house he designed for a bachelor in the city's fashionable Latin Quarter.

L'Opera Restaurant

A feast for the Phantom: A masterful insertion transforms the porte cochere of the Palais Garnier opera house into a seductive haunt worthy of its legendary specter.

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

October 16, 2011

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Designing a new interior for a building as prominent as Charles Garnier's historic opera house isn't for the faint-hearted.

Hermès Rive Gauche

Erich Theophile Steven Yee

February 15, 2011

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Hermès’s newest emporium has an unassuming facade and a pair of store windows with displays of furniture and flowers that fit neatly into the bourgeois row of shop fronts on the rue de Sèvres in Paris’s 6th arrondissement.