paris reference - Rue Campagne Première

Here is our last new entry:

PARIS - RUE CAMPAGNE PREMIERE - 14me
The rue Campagne Première is one of the most sympa streets of the Montparnasse district and almost rivaled Montmartre with its selection of artists, ateliers, and creative activity which hubbed around there in the early 20th century. But it also has a lovely selection of cafés, restaurants, and hangouts perfect for lazing around in the afternoon sun following a visit to the Rock 'n Roll exhibit at the nearby Fondation Cartier. And unforgettably, no. 11 rue Campagne Première is also the spot where Jean-Paul Belmondo's character in Godard's Breathless meets his end.The 14th arrondissement also contains the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, which is located near Parc Montsouris and Stade Charléty.
35sq mts apartment, set on a secluded courtyard (see pictures), second floor (no elevator, 30 steps) it consists of::
LIVING ROOM
Comfortable living room with double sofa bed easy to open and operate, table and chairs, TV/DVD, cd player, bookshelves, chest of drawers and two windows (in picture) overlooking the inner courtyard (pictured)
KITCHEN
Independent kitchen with window overlooking inner courtyard, electric stove, sink, refrigerator, microwave, washing machine and dish washer.
BATH ROOM
Comfortable bathroom with bath tub/shower, basin, water closet, electic boiler and window;
BEDROOM
With double bed, wardrobe, telephone, 2 windows on inner courtyard. Bedroom has a door for privacy.

NO DSL CONNECTION IN THIS APARTMENT, ONLY DIAL UP.
PHONE ONLY RECEIVES AND MAKES URGENCY CALLS.
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Paris 32 on Mercer's Quality of Living global city rankings

Mercer has designed an objective way of measuring quality of living for expatriates based on factors that people consider representative of quality of living. Our annual survey is based on detailed assessments and evaluations of 10 key categories and 39 criteria or factors, each having coherent weightings reflecting their relative importance.
Paris ranked 32nd (up from 33rd) and Rome 55th (up from 61)
We're improving!

PARIS - RUE MARIE STUART - 2me

Here is our last new entry:

PARIS - RUE MARIE STUART - 2me
The 2nd arrondissement, together with the adjacent 8th and 9th arrondissements, hosts an important business district, centred on the Paris Opéra, which houses the city's densest concentration of business activities. The arondissement contains the former Paris Bourse (stock exchange) and a large number of banking headquarters, as well as a textile district, known as the Sentier, and the Opéra-Comique concert hall.
45sq mts apartment, set on a pedestrian street, second floor (no elevator, 35 steps) it consists of::
ENTRANCE
Small entrance with coat hangers. It leads to the kitchen on the left and the living room on the right and straight to the bed room.
LIVING ROOM
Comfortable living room with double sofa bed easy to open and operate, table and chairs, TV, bookshelves, chest of drawers and two windows (in pictures) overlooking Rue Marie Stuart, which is a quiet, cobblestoned pedestrian street.
KITCHEN
Small kitchen with window overlooking inner courtyard, electric stove, sink, refrigerator, microwave;
BATH ROOM
Comfortable bathroom with shower, washer, basin, water closet, electic boiler and ventilation;
BEDROOM
With full bed, chest of drawers, wardrobe, telephone, window on inner courtyard. Bedroom has a door for privacy.

NO DSL CONNECTION IN THIS APARTMENT, ONLY DIAL UP.

critical mass Paris

Rome just went through its 6th Critical Mass birthday find details in our Rome blog.
Paris is about to go through its cyclonudiste tour which must be a lot of fun, take a look here.
Let me post Paris Critical Mass Manifesto, we support it:

FAITES UN CADEAU AUX GÉNÉRATIONS FUTURES : ABANDONNEZ VOTRE VOITURE.

L'auto-moto à Paris bat tous les records ! 1^e place toutes catégories pour l'occupation des sols, 1^e source de bruit et de stress, 1^e source de pollution et d'injures, et bien d'autres tristes trophées.

Pourquoi déplacer 1300 kg pour transporter 70 kg (homme) ou 55 kg (dame) ? Pourquoi prendre un engin conçu pour 5 personnes rempli à 1,2 personnes ? Pourquoi ne voit-on pas d'embouteillages dans les pubs auto ? Pourquoi des pare-buffles quand l'animal le plus dangereux à Paris est le conducteur lui-même ? Pourquoi ne pas faire du vélo en dehors du dimanche ? Halte à la schizophrénie automobile ! Sortir du piège auto-moto demande une volonté de tous et des élus d'abord pour offrir à chacun une chance de faire du vélo hors des salles de fitness.

LE COLLECTIF VÉLORUTION DEMANDE DONC URGEMMENT :

• l'abolition des privilèges injustement accordés à la bagnole, qui envahit l'espace visuel, sonore, olfactif jusqu'au fond de nos bronches ;
• la restitution des espaces urbains aux piétons, personnes à mobilité réduite, rollers, skaters, cyclistes, transports en commun !
• le renforcement du réseau cyclable : voies Paris-Banlieue, franchissement des places, généralisation des contresens cyclables ;
• la gratuité des transports en commun lors des pics de pollution ;
• la mise en place d'un «réseau vert» de rues reliées entre elles (à commencer par un axe nord-sud et un est-ouest dans chaque arrondissement) réservées aux vélos, piétons et sans-moteur ;
• la fin de l'intolérable tolérance envers les véhicules à moteur ne respectant pas les voies de bus, les trottoirs, les passages piétons, les bandes cyclables, la vie quoi.

L'auto-moto n'est pas une fatalité, c'est un mode de pensée qui asphyxie nos villes et nos vies. Par nos comportements, nos choix, il nous appartient de nous libérer de la tyrannie auto-moto, pour nous, pour le futur. Vélorution !

Ancora oggi, in un contesto internazionale profondamente cambiato proprio dalla sua invenzione, la complessa macchina museale del Centre Georges Pompidou, inaugurato a Parigi nel 1977, costituisce un esempio unico di utopia culturale realizzata: aperto a ogni forma di creazione artistica, questo centro ha trasformato l’idea del museo come luogo della conservazione di un patrimonio passato , nella fabbrica della cultura del presente.
Il volume è dedicato all’analisi approfondita del Centre Pompidou, al suo ruolo innovativo nella storia museale francese e mondiale, alla sua architettura di rottura nel tessuto urbanistico della vecchia Parigi - a suo tempo oggetto di critiche feroci -, alle sue eccezionali collezioni d’arte che dagli albori del Novecento giungono alle ultime tendenze del contemporaneo.

I testi di Elena Del Drago, suddivisi in tre sezioni – La storia, L’edificio, Le collezioni – sono illustrati con le inedite fotografie di Marco Covi, che consentono al lettore di osservare il Centre Pompidou da tutte le angolazioni, interne ed esterne, seguendo prospettive inusuali.

Biografia dell’autrice
Elena Del Drago, autrice del presente volume e curatrice della collana a cui appartine, è giornalista e storica dell’arte contemporanea. Dal 1999 è critico per il quotidiano Il Manifesto, Radio Rai 3 e collabora con diversi periodici. Ha curato mostre, libri di museologia contemporanea (tra questi il più recente è Le Consortium, Luca Sossella Editore, Roma 2006), diversi cataloghi, un documentario dedicato a Maurizio Cattelan (Cult – Fox International Channels/Hublab, 2006) e la parte artistica di alcune trasmissioni televisive. Per Mondadori Electa ha contribuito al progetto Arte Contemporanea (2008).

La collana Luoghi del contemporaneo
I luoghi affrontati in questa collana sono musei, spazi espositivi, centri per la cultura che nel corso del Novecento hanno rappresentato diversi modi di affrontare la sfida presentata dall’arte, fino a trasformarsi oggi in veri e propri “templi” del contemporaneo, al centro di trasformazione veloci e di un’attenzione senza precedenti. Per ognuno di essi si cerca di identificare un “sistema” espresso dal rapporto tra lo spazio architettonico, la sua funzione, la fruizione da parte del pubblico e il contesto urbano.

I templi dell'arte moderna e contemporanea nel mondo sono oggetto della collana
Luoghi del contemporaneo di MondadoriArte che, per la prima volta,
esamina questi musei attraverso il doppio registro del contenitore
(funzione museale e strutture architettoniche) e del contenuto (collezioni e mostre).

La collana, curata da Elena Del Drago, è oggetto di un'apposita campagna fotografica
realizzata esclusivamente da Marco Covi.

Paris Reference - Square du Temple

Square du Temple

-Paris Accommodation-

(No smokers, please)

Sleeps : 4
Metro : Arts et métiers, Temple 2 mins
third floor (elevator from 1st floor)
Double bed (queen), sofabed
TV, washing machine, cable TV (CNN, BBC World BBC prime) wifi

The Marais has become one of the most sought after quartiers of Paris, and needs no introduction ! Walk through the narrow medieval streets and each day another little treasure will be revealed – a splendid 17thC ‘Hotel particulier’, an open door onto an unsuspected cobbled courtyard awash with colourful flower pots, a half timbered house dating back to the 13th c, a bench under a lime tree in a tiny public garden. The sunny living room overlooks the Square du Temple, a small public park with flowers, lawns, children’s playground and even a band pavilion ! Morning practitioners of Tai Chi give way to office workers enjoying the sun during their lunch hour, while small children enjoy the play ground after school. The rue de Bretagne runs alongside the Square, where you will find the colourful Enfants Rouge market, open daily, and speciality shops, restaurants and cafés and a supermarket. A 5-10 minute stroll will take you to the Picasso Museum, the Pompidou Centre, the Musée Carnavalet and that jewel of 17th C architecture, the Place des Vosges. . Just a little further and you are on the banks of the Seine, the Ile de la Cité, Notre Dame, the Conciergerie, the Flower Market … The nearby metro will take you to many other sites within minutes. A truly prime Parisian location

This is a spacious sunny apartment of some 65m² on the third floor* of an 18th C building (one flight of stairs up to elevator). The apartment has recently been renovated to a good standard ! Don't be put off by the entrance and stairwell which is narrow, dark and has peeling paint! A reflection of Parisian attitudes to spending money on what they consider 'non essentials'! The apartment comes as an agreeable surprise - entirely redecorated, light and sunny !! To the right of the entrance hall is a fully carpeted Bedroom overlooking a quiet courtyard, with queensize double bed and an excellent en suite Bathroom with tub and shower attachment. Separate WC off hall. Large airy carpeted Living room with fine beams facing east over the Square du Temple , with high double glazed windows, comfortable double sofabed, dining furniture, flat screen TV. (Note : the Japanese style white blinds do not black out the living room at night.) The separate Kitchen has a window onto the dining area, and is well equipped with washer, dishwasher, microwave oven as well as classic oven and 3-burner cooker. Individual electric radiators. Initial linen included.

ParisReference - Rue du Bac

Saint Germain, Rue du Bac

-Paris Lodging-

(No smokers, please)

Sleeps : 4
Metro : bac 5 mins
second floor*, elevator
Double bed, two singles
TV, washer/dryer

In the heart of the coveted 7th arrondissement, with its elegant architecture and magnificent ‘hotels particuliers’, this neighbourhood is also unusually well endowed with wonderful boutiques, fine food shops, cafés and restaurants, and, of course, the irrisistable Bon Marché department store, with is renowned basement food hall ! Ideally situated for site seeing and within a comfortable stroll of the Boulevard St Germain, Rodin Museum, the banks of the Seine, Tuileries Gardens, the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, Napoleon’s tomb and the Invalides Museum, Ile de la Cité, Notre Dame, and not forgetting the Musée Maillol down the street (and the French Prime Minister lives just round the corner !). Three handy metro lines will take you further afield. Location, location, location !

We were honoured when the Italian owner asked us to manage this enchanting apartment (approx 90m²), furnished with that exquisite restrained elegance for which the Italians are famous ! On the second floor (with elevator) the apartment overlooks two quiet courtyards (see photo), and is thus protected from street noise. Entirely refurbished in 2007, including the shower rooms, to an excellent standard and furnished with the best modern design !

Polished parquet floors and creamy white paint feature throughout, together with generous flowing curtains. The rooms are well distributed off a principal corridor starting with an enviable eat-in Kitchen, with dishwasher, washing machine, dryer, classic and microwave ovens, etc. Next comes the Sitting room with rug, comfortable chairs, flat screen TV, decorative chimney (not in use), and arch to separate Dining room for 6. Finally, to the right is the Master bedroom with queensize double bed, en suite shower room with WC. To the left, Bedroom 2 : with two single beds, en suite shower with WC, and a small office area. Separate WC. Electric radiators. Initial linen supplied. Note ! No telephone for the moment (bring your cell phone ).

*Cultural note! In France we count ground floor, first floor, etc.

Extras: telephone, electricity, gas (if over 50 euro worth of use)