Landline General Supply Store, Baguette 🥖 Stamp Letter

Last night a triple book 📚 party, ‘Food for Thought’ night at Landlines General Supply store in the 11th Arrondissement  at 107 Avenue de Parmentier.

Jane Bertch of French Ingredient was there chatting, along with cookbook author, Carrie Solomon of Bohème Cooking, French Vegetarian Recipes. Carrie will be officiating at the French Summer Olympics.

Furoshiki Paris, Hotel de Ville

Paris has these extraordinary magical exhibitions that can last just 4 days or 1 week like the DIOR JEWELS. If you don't drop everything and run you will miss out the FUROSHIKI PARIS expos at HOTEL DE VILLE lasted a mere 4 days this week.

I'm so glad I didn't miss it (many thanks to @caroline.mignot showing it in her STORIES on Instagram)

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Inside the big tent a veritable wonderland of wrapped packages and gifts. Fukoshiki is the art of wrapping (just in time for Noël which we're already gearing up for, since there is no Thanksgiving to get in the way).

A brief animated video explained the Japanese tradition of wrapping, whether a gift or a dozen eggs or something enormous like CHRISTO wrapping the Pont Neuf!

Both Japanese and French artists participated. AGNES B. Wrapped a package with postal stamps patterns. YUM

Artist YAYOI KUSAMA using her wonderful famous dots.

Wrapping a laptop.

The staff matched the wall pattern. The exhibit was designed by TSUYOSHI TANE.

In the back an atelier where you could try your hand at wrapping with assitents and videos.

I didn't know I already loved Fukushiko. It shows up all the time in surimono woodblock still life prints.

I kept thinking Coco would love this exhibit with her indigo wrapped bandanas and turbins. I didn't know her yet. At a brunch Coco set out this coaster of a petit rat painting at my place setting. So Coco. So Japanese.

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