Printemps - Christmas in Paper, your wishes are granted

 

On Tuesday night I finally got to see Department store Printemps bird-filled windows

Night time is definitely the best time to view holiday windows in Paris

No distracting reflections. 

Not so crazy busy either - most kiddies are home in bed…

What a fabulous surprise it was.

Animated birds flying over Paris rooftops 

Delivering holiday greetings of joy. The theme - birds sending holiday messages

Beautifully detailed and whimsical, wise owls in this case. And so many envelopes 💌! Very relatable for me 📮 

95 articulated puppets with over 170,000 paper decorations 

All designed by paper artist, extraordinaire, Mathilde Nivet.

Printemps has a small exhibit exploring the window’s inspirations & preparatory models/maquettes made by Nivet.

On their little bridge, second floor, between the 2 buildings

A chance to get up close to the birds 🐦 like this classic Paris pigeon. Every feather 🪶 is carefully cut ✂️ 

Another maquette, tropical 🌴 

The window outside. This one is definitely full of parrots 🦜

Sources of graphic inspiration for Nivet from vases to manuscripts.

A ‘60s Printemps holiday card showing the store as a golden cage full of whimsical birds

Throughout the building more cut paper fantasies

Paper Christmas trees

What a beautiful & thoughtful collaboration between Printemps and artist Mathilde Nivet. Perhaps the best I’ve seen this year.

Stacks of envelopes 💌 used as decoration, looked so familiar to me ☺️

Last night I got to hand-deliver some Paris letters 💌

Angelina Bear party is waiting for you in my Etsy shop along with other goodies.

☕️ Or buy me a KO-FI ☕️ 

Sending a Happy Friday to you dear PBers