Le Bon Marche - le Rois des Forêts

 

Last night post-postal 📮 run, I went to see Le Bon Marché fabulous holiday decorations. It’s usually a celebration of the l’arbre de Noël. Last year the trees were green. 

This year they are snow-covered and sparkly. 

Looking up and looking down from the escalator.

                                And at eye-level. 

Bon Marché in a snow globe. 

A fabulous pile of white and gold Guerlain perfume bottles. 

Inside the Grand Epicerie next door, mountains of Italian panettone. The French are mad for it. In New York I never even tasted it. Now I can’t keep my paws off it - the mini single-servings (more like a cupcake) are hard to resist. 

Grand Epicerie‘s macarons have always been superb. These are the big ones. The colors! 

A fir tree gateau to match the store decorations. 

Why are the staff always more chic than the customers? I was looking rag-tag after a day of shipping out Marie-Antoinette 💌 letters...ahem. 

The good news is they left me alone to shoot📸 whatever I liked 😃 Particularly the luxe perfume bottles. 

I’m obsessed with painting perfume!

Outside beautiful, sparkly lights. An even better light show in front of my house by the Seine. A French guy, talking on his phone, waltzed by, completely missing the beauty of the night. He asked if I was OK? Never better❤️ Thank you for keeping Bear in Paris 🐻💋