You don’t always find new things in the places you expect.

They often just turn up unannounced, surprising us and sometimes throwing us off balance. However, they always help change our perspective and, in the end they change our lives as well. As Albert Camus wrote in Summer (1954): 

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” 

I would like to wish a very Happy New Year to all those who share in our experience and to those we are going to meet.

Hugues de La Morandière

Associate director

 TIME TO TREAT YOURSELF

PATISSERIES WITH A MIDDLE EASTERN VIBE / Maison Aleph, and its famous Parisian galette des rois epiphany cake

ARTISANAL CREATIONS/ Become a new and more responsible consumer BEAU: Quality vintage objects sourced in France 

THE HARMONY OF PLANTS / Meet Cédric PELTIER – Decorative Painter

CERAMICS / We fell under the spell of TOMA BLOK’s unique glazed earthenware creations 

3.55 / The CHANEL podcast produced by Monocle 24

BON MARCHÉ RIVE GAUCHE / A monumental installation by French artist Prune Nourry that evokes her fight against breast cancer