We had a pretty spectacular weekend.
On Saturday, while pursuing nice, reasonably priced shoes on Rue du Faubourg St-Antoine, we stopped by Le Lieu du Design, which is hosting a food-related design show. There were a lot of fun, quirky and sometimes even useful entries.
Chocolat Chaud-on-a-Stick and Pot-au-Feu Animals
edible finger puppets and extra-virginal white chocolate Marys
the exhibition space, with Lia and wall of Alessi
tattooed and spiked crabs and clams
a different view to highlight the Wu Tang detail
savory aperitif cakes to be cooked and served in shells
compound butter gems
chocolate record
As you can tell by the photos below, Saturday night we partied. A couple of Lia's coworkers hosted a cocktail party, fueled by gracious donations of Canadian rye, Italian meatballs, guacamole and champagne, among other things.
Sunday we attended a performance by Paris native Eliane Radigue at Centquatre (104), a remarkable arts space housed in what was once the municipal funerary services complex. Eliane Radigue is an electronic music artist whose very austere, minimal works use long, slowly transforming, overlapping, modulating waves of sound, sometimes embellished with samples of voice or instruments. It's an exercise in intense listening or intense boredom, depending on your taste. In this interview she explains her creative process and technique: http://vimeo.com/8983993
That's not a switchboard operator, it's an avant garde musician.
Unfortunately, she no longer performs on the giant ARP, just a large mixing board.
Here she is after the performance.
art faces
Centquatre is currently home to La Manège Carré Sénart, an amazing carousel made up of mechanical bugs and animals. Some parts can be operated by levers and hand-cranks. It's really cool.
in action:
We found this gem of a room divider just down the block from Centquatre.
We walked home along Canal St-Martin, which on Sundays is closed to car traffic, making it a lovely spot for a waterside stroll.
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