La Grand Épicerie’s 10 year birthday 🎂 🥳

 

Saturday we celebrated La Grand Épicerie’s 10 year birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 of their Signature line of Products 👏

PHOTO BY SOLLI KANANI

In the insane heat 🔥 I went running 

What Parisians are wearing in La Canicule

This morning around 5 am out my window 🪟 

What I am drinking non-stop to stay cool 😎 Paper-thin slices of English cucumber 🥒 in San Pellegrino 

Paris Train Station Letter, Gare de Lyon

Ta Da This brainstorm hit me on ligne 7 going to the POOL yesterday. We're in a week-long HEATWAVE/canicul. 90+ degrees. I bought another fan/ventilator only to discover I have to assemble it. The box is attractive.

I was going to do the GARE DE LYON facade for the letter and realized how boring that would be. Plus Bonelle said NO WAY! 

Btw there are many wonderful FRENCH TRAIN videos you must WATCH. Even classic French train NOISES. 

Dooo do dooo da.

Clearly I was subliminally influenced by New York City architectural historian, BARRY LEWIS' History of NYC's Grand Central Terminal. this view of the great train shed/verriaire seeped into the little brain cells. I took Barry's Cooper Union night classes over & over. Riveting and funny. He points out the influence of mid-1850s French Beaux Arts architecture on NYC design.

Like the former Orsay train station.

 Who knew the gorgeous plumes of romantic smoke and fog we love in films like Funny Face and Anna Karenina, actually stank and were abhorrent? 

Barry knows these important little things. You will be amused. BARRY LEWIS is a PBer too.

Way back when, I visited the ORSAY for a comic book convention.

Its still one of the great fabulous spaces in Paris, as are all the train stations.

But the Orsay has not been gutted and shopping mauled, Merci Dieu 🙏

You are not supposed to call it the 'D'Orsay'? I didn't know till recently...its a snob thing. Now we know. Call it the ORSAY. Drop the d'. Professor Deb says so.

Here's a divine Van Gogh from the Orsay Impressionist collection. Big merci Caillebotte brothers. And a cool matching view of the Seine. 

Please share PB with your friends. 

The PARIS LETTER is shipping out 📮Monday (perhaps with a tip sheet so you can cut/fold yours to look like mine). Xxx 💋from Bear 🐻 & Carolg❤️