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Art de vivre, living and investment — curated.

Essays on culture, heritage architecture and the art of living well, alongside Pro Guide TV films and PropTech showcases.

The magazine of art de vivre, living & investment

The street front on the Rue Marbeuf, red awnings marked Éleveur et Restaurateur over the terrace chairs

Gastronomy

One piece of the French culinary mosaic

No need to drive hundreds of kilometres into the Massif Central. A few minutes on foot from the Champs-Élysées will do.

8 min read

Bronze figures in the window of an art gallery under the arcade of the Place des Vosges

Art de Vivre

From the Bastille to the Place des Vosges

Half a day's walk through the private Paris — where history is not kept behind museum glass.

7 min read

Architecture

The Maison de Victor Hugo

Sometimes one small door on the Place des Vosges is enough to understand a great deal about France.

6 min read

The Place des Vosges, people sitting on the lawns in front of the brick and stone pavilions

Residences

Place des Vosges — buying a way of living, not square metres

When a two-million-euro apartment is not simply property.

8 min read

The arcades of the Place des Vosges, a line of stone arches with shopfronts along the walkway

Gastronomy

Forty-five minutes on the Place des Vosges

The simplest way to judge a quarter: sit down, order a coffee, and watch people go by.

8 min read

An art gallery under the arcades near the Place des Vosges, sculpture and canvases behind the glass

Art de Vivre

Where people begin to become collectors

Walk out of an elegant restaurant, go fifty metres, and stand in front of a work worth ninety thousand euros.

7 min read

The inner courtyard of the Hôtel de Sully in the Marais, carved stone façades around the cobbled court

Art de Vivre

The secret Marais — the doors visitors never open

What do Parisians know that tourists do not?

8 min read

The Place des Vosges at nightfall, lit windows of the pavilions behind the bare trees of the square

Art de Vivre

The Marais after eight

When the Place des Vosges begins another life.

7 min read

The stained-glass dome of the Galeries Lafayette Haussmann seen from the balconies below

Art de Vivre

Galeries Lafayette — a Parisian day's shopping

Shopping, food, and a coffee looking down over the roofs of Paris.

8 min read

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