Les Parasols de Deauville 🏖️

 

Last Friday I went back to Deauville.

Home of the iconic beach umbrellas 🏖️

Since then 

I took a deep dive 

Into Parasol histoire.

The Deauville iconic beach umbrella

Is an offspring 

Of the individual Asian parasols of the ‘Roaring Twenties’.

Don’t you love ❤️ these old picture postcards?

In 1845 stripped parasols ⛱️ were de rigueur 

In 1950 Deauville decided to switch to heavy canvas parasols in solid primary colors: red, blue, yellow, green, orange. 

450 parasols ⛱️ are specially made in a factory behind the boardwalk.

This is the”Deauville Knot” - the ‘Skirt’ part that becomes a changing room or shade from the sun 🌞 

You can rent a parasol by the day, week or season reasonably.

Sister city, Trouville-sur-mer, still has the old style striped parasols ⛱️ 

Deauville tourist office, by the yacht basin, has bucket hats, small trays, espadrilles, pillows made from the parasol canvas. It has AC (Salle Climatizé). 

A cool place to recover before catching the train 🚊 home.

I spotted these parasol cookies 🍪

I was feeling pretty hot 🥵 though Deauville is 10 degrees cooler than Paris. After some ice cream 🍨 

I decided to buy a swim suit & cap on the boardwalk and take a refreshing dip in the salt water public pool 🏊🏽‍♀️ at La Piscine Olympique.

After the pool I plunked myself down on the boardwalk/Les Planches to paint.

I brought along my watercolor box.

Deauville PARASOLS watercolors are up  on Etsy.

And painted parasols till it was time to catch the 5:17 🚊 back to Paris Gare Saint-Lazare. Deauville is 2hrs17 minutes from Paris.

Are you ready?

Watch M.Hulot’s Holiday 🎥 to put you in a vacation mood.

I will go back on the Thursday. I missed seeing the Summer exhibition Raoul Dufy at Les Franciscaines.