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Le Nid “the nest” is a whimsical themed bar located in Nantes, France. Designed by Graphic Designer Jean Jullien it was his first 3D project. Literally translating to “The Nest,” the combination of whimsical details and a scenic view overlooking the city of Nantes guarantee that we will all be flocking to Le Nid.
This creative bottle design was created by Belarusian designer, Constantin Bolimond. His idea is based around the concept of wine as the blood of grapes. The striking form is themed off a human heart to reference the fruit’s origin – France. The product is realized in black and white finishes, featuring a simple inverse typeface to communicate the wine’s label. The design brings a new meaning to the devil’s nectar.
Instagram, the photo-sharing app, has released a list of the most photographed places in the world via the app in 2012, with Suvarnabhumi Airport topping the chart.According to IG, over 100,000 photos were taken via Instagram at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, over the last year, making it a surprise winner.Interestingly another Bangkok landmark, the Siam Paragon shopping mall, took second place in Instagram’s most photographed places in 2012
Overall, locations in the US were popular among Instagram users, with American landmarks occupying seven of the top ten locations, including five in Southern California. Strangely enough, landmarks that have been a traditional favorite for photographers such as the Statue of Liberty in New York, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin or London’s Big Ben did not appear on the list, though Paris’s Eiffel Tower did make an appearance in eighth place — behind Dodger Stadium and LAX.
The top ten most photographed places in the world via Instagram in 2012 were:
01. Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) Bangkok, Thailand
02. Siam Paragon (shopping mall) Bangkok, Thailand
03. Disneyland Park Anaheim, California, USA
04. Times Square New York City, New York, USA
05. AT&T Park San Francisco, California, USA
06. Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), California, USA
07. Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California, USA
08. Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
09. Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
10. Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California, USA
These infrared photographs taken by France-based photographer David Keochkerian look like bizarre, saturated landscapes created from a Dr. Seuss illustration. Seasons seem reversed, with white trees appearing in spring, and bushes are transformed into something that looks like fragile blades of bubblegum. 
Zarb Champagne shouldn’t have a tough time catching your attention at your local wine boutique. These wild and wondrous champagne bottles are styled in a truly bizarre manner, reflecting the identity of the Zarb brand itself. In French, the word Zarb is slang for “bizarre”, a moniker well suited to this new line of champagne. The bubbly within this bottle isn’t your run-of-the-mill sparkling white either. It hails from the Champagne region of France, so it bears the title of Champagne with true authenticity. This line of packaging might just be the most exotic that a Champagne producer would ever dare to market.
Just take a look at these colorful fire extinguishers by Fire Design from France. These unique fire extinguishers are not only decorative but also pursue to keep fire extinguishers, which is ignored in most cases. Available in colorful vibrant textures and some funny prints.
Take a look at fascinating images created by genius Photoshop retouch master from France, Christophe Huet. He is the one who creates the famous advertising for Playstation, Nike, Motorola, Surfrider Foundation, etc. His work is a perfect fusion between old-school photography and digital created composites. Somehow, he melts the thin barrier between reality and his own tortured imagination resulting in viscerally surreal images.
Each image in this collection shows vegetable cocktails fromPierre Martinet. The Pierre Martinet Smoothie campaign was created by BEING TBWA, an ad agency based in Paris, France. It features colorful goblets made out of the veggies each smoothie consists of. For instance, one is made out of an egg plant while another from a carrot. It was art directed by Jean-Pierre Roges.
French liquor brand Pernod Absinthe recently worked with Parisian label Maison Kitsune to release a limited edition bottle. The Pernod Absinthe bottles come decorated with a painterly motif of foxes sleeping and playing in a field of absinthe-flavoring anise and fennel flowers. As one of the most reputed producers of absinthe in France, the rarefied beverage blended of wormwood and other herbs has been bottled by Pernod since 1805. The limited-edition bottles were unveiled at Colette during Paris Fashion Week, and are available for purchase exclusively at the famous concept store on Rue St Honoré.
French artists Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus have converted an old house in France into a visitor centre by giving it a ghostly cloak of polystyrene and paint. The building, which was formerly used as a prison house, a school and a funeral home, is located in the grounds of the Synagogue de Delme contemporary art centre, a gallery inside a 19th century synagogue. Blocks of polystyrene create the chunky shapes on the facade, and are covered with resin and a layer of white paint. The artists imagine the building as a “ghost-house” and have named it Gue(ho)st House, in reference to the phrase invented by Marcel Duchamp “A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST”.
Europe’s war-torn past is never all that far from the present. This becomes eerily clear in “Ghosts of History,” a series of haunting photographs that overlay images from France during World War II with present-day pictures of the same locations.
The lighting, colors, composition, exposure, everything is amazing in Theo‘s photographs. This nineteen year old guy from France can easily become your favorite photographer. Just take a look at these great pictures.
The Black Diamond Room, (above) is housed in the The Seven Hotel located in Paris, France. The Seven is a luxury hotel contains 28 suits that are decorated in seven different ways – James Bond, Marie Antoinette, Alice, etc. These suits were created by four talanted designers: Vincent Bastie, Virginie Cauet, Sylvia Corrette and Paul-Bertrand Mathieu.
The James Bond Room
The Alice Room
The On/Off Room
The Sublime Room
The Marie Antoinette Room
The Levitation Room
Cognac maker Rémy Martin has released a limited edition VSOP bottle for the Cannes Film Festival meant to evoke the golden age of cinema. As the official sponsor of perhaps the most glamorous of film festivals, the French spirit maker has launched a new collector’s series called Gold and Light for the 65th edition of Cannes. In addition to being available at the festival itself, the classic 1-liter bottle will be sold exclusively at some of the biggest airports in the world, including Paris Charles de Gaulle, Nice, Oslo, Dubai, Beirut, New Delhi, Moscow, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York JFK.
The Limited Edition Cannes Festival 2012 VSOP is available in three formats:
-the Collector’s 1-liter Classic Format, 55€
-1.5 Magnum, 200€
-3L Jeroboam Format, 500€
While Rémy Cointreau is the official sponsor of the Cannes Film Festival, French champagne maker Moët & Chandon was the sponsor for the Berlin Film Festival.
Madeon performs Pop Culture live in Nantes, France back in July 2011. Awesome-sauce.
26 year old photographer Nicolas Evariste hails from Granville in Normandy (France), and started photography in 2006. He was quickly attracted by black and white and square format and carries a strong interest in landscape photography of his area, and in macro and in animals photography too. His collection titled “Dark Zoo” is a very impressive look at animals with a very simple theme.
A luxurious on-ground villa, that offers to its residents the comfort, spaciousness and interior flexibility but yet immobile? Or a limited in space and wavering but at the same time capable of transferring you to any place you want yacht? That could always be the question faced by clients of the luxury leisure sector. Trying to address this issue while simultaneously implementing the know-how and craftsmanship of both companies, the Monaco-based yacht maker Wally and the luxury French brand Hermès, created WHY – a state-of the-art vessel, for which the idea of the hull was initially taken from a seismic vessel, and was redesigned and adapted to the needs of the sea. The outcome was a super-luxurious yacht which measures 58 meters long and 38 meters wide and can accommodate 12 guests and 20 crew members.
The interior of the yacht follows the high standards of the design companies and is fitted out with water resistant leather, whereas wood is used in most of the interior areas of the vessel. The total 3.400m² guest surface areas, is divided into three different levels containing all rooms that could be found in a luxury villa such as lounges, dining rooms, libraries and spa areas.
The yacht has been tested under various conditions and the outcome is that under unfavorable weather conditions it remains more stable than any other of its type, and when anchored it creates a flat surface behind it where swimmers feel as if they are in an Olympic-sized pool. Since the aim of the project is to create a boat that imitates the specifications of a luxury villa but also has the advantages of a boat, it also means that the vessel must be so stable so that the guests can engage in the same activities as they would on the ground. WHY’s ability to offer this, is probably proved by the fact that it carries around it a real jogging track inspired by coastal paths.
Street art is honestly by far my favorite medium for visually expressing ideas. It literally comes in all different forms, and can inspire, scare, bewilder, warn, and make people laugh. This is probably my 9th or 10th street art collection on this blog in the last 2 years. So although I think one or two photos may have been repeated in previous posts, check out all these incredibly interesting pieces of street art.
Drinks International, based out of the UK, has published its version of the World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards, with the World’s 50 Best Bars list. From secretive speakeasies that require walking through phone booths, wardrobes and hidden, unmarked doors, editors and bar professionals around the world selected their picks for the best bars around the world. While New York and London dominate the top 10 list, watering holes from 16 countries are represented along the way, including bars from France, Spain, Denmark, Spain, Japan, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Russia. About 100 of the world’s top bar professionals contributed to the list, including the Playboy Club’s Salvatore Calabrese, King Cocktail Dale DeGroff, Esquire’s David Wondrich in the US and diamond ice-carver Hidetsugu Ueno.
Here are the top 50 bars in the world, according to a panel of 100 bar professionals and Drinks International.
1. PDT, New York
2. Connaught, London
3. Artesian, London
4. Death & Co, New York
5. Milk & Honey, London
6. American Bar at the Savoy, London
7. 69 Colebrooke Row, London
8. Drink, Boston US
9. Harry’s New York Bar, Paris
10. Black Pearl, Melbourne, Australia
11. Pegu Club, NY
12. Dry Martini Bar, Barcelona
13. Eau De Vie, Sydney
14. Bramble, Edinburgh
15. Employees Only, New York
16. La Capilla Bar, Mexico
17. Merchant Hotel, Belfast
18. Nightjar, London
19. Smuggler’s Cove, San Francisco
20. Buddha Bar, Paris
21. Skyview Bar, Dubai
22. The Varnish, Los Angeles
23. Tippling Club, Singapore
24. Milk & Honey, New York
25. 878 Bar, Buenos Aires
26. Der Raum, Melbourne
27. Callooh Callay, London
28. Clover Club, New York
29. Door74, Amsterdam
30. Tommy’s, San Francisco
31. Floridita, Havana
32. City Space, Moscow
33. Matterhorn, Wellington, NZ
34. High Five Bar, Tokyo
35. Le Lion, Hamburg
36. LAB, London
37. Boadas, Barcelona
38. Dutch Kills, New York
39. Worship St Whistling Shop, London
40. BarAgricole, San Francisco
41. Papa Doble, Montpellier
42. Quo Vadis, London
43. Lounge Bohemia, London
44. Mayahuel, New York
45. Mutis, Barcelona
46. Ruby, Copenhagen
47. Rules, London
48. Hemingway Bar, Paris
49. Zuma, Dubai
50. Star Bar, Tokyo
French designer Arnaud Lapierre has created ‘ring’, a series of mirrored cubes placed in a circular pattern in collaboration with AUDI. The vast amount of reflections and angles warps the perspective of the surrounding area in a way I’ve never seen before. The optical effect creates a surreal environment in which both the structures and people are distorted and recreated, fracturing the usual relationship that individuals have with the piazza as well as themselves. Overall, the installation measured 5500 x 4000 mm (216 x 157 inches). The ‘ring’ installation was on show at Place Vendôme, Paris, at the 2011 Foire Internationale d’art Contemporain (FIAC). Check the method.
I know I for sure threw some people off with the name of this post, but so will these incredible pictures. French collective Paper Donut has painted a series of walls with three-dimensional shapes. The image above is part of an ad campaign for fashion store Sqwear, and the other two visuals are personal projects.
Italian fashion label Gucci inaugurated a museum in Florence Monday, showcasing the luggage and high-end clothing that have fueled the company’s success. Located in the Palazzo della Mercanzia, the museum is only a few steps away from the 13th century Palazzo Vecchio and Michelangelo’s David. The museum features an exhibit showing how their logo has evolved since Guccio Gucci, a former porter at the London’s Savoy hotel, founded the company in 1921. Covering 18,460 square feet over three floors, the Gucci Museo is arranged by theme and not in chronological order. In the private basement are the Gucci archives. On the ground floor will be a coffee shop and bookstore just downstairs from a display of handbags, red carpet outfits, and other archival pieces from Gucci. On the second floor of the museum is a display of garments and artworks that are emblazoned with the GG logo. Ahead of the public opening, some 200 celebrities, including the Vogue magazine chief Anna Wintour and US artist Bill Viola, attended a party held in the 14th-century palace in central Florence where the exhibits are installed. Admission to the museum will be 6 euros with half going to help restore the City of Florence.
G-Unit has been all over the world since 2004, but one of the most interesting video’s I’ve seen from them isn’t on MTV, but from their own personal stash. A video surfaced recently about their trip to France, and their shows in Colmar and Cannes, check the method.
I’ve been to many countries around the world, both as a child with my parents, and as an adult for work, but when I recently got an offer to play a fashion show in Paris, France I wanted to do some research. I haven’t been to Paris in over 10 years, so I wanted to get a little insight into what else I could get into besides the night life if I took the job. One of the most interesting videos I came across was an ad for students who may be deliberating on what country to study abroad in. Although this video hasn’t swayed me decision on weather or not to take the job, I wanted to put it up just because I thought it was stylistically awesome. Check the method.
As many folks may already know, the once underground emcee Yelawolf signed with Shady earlier in the year. Now that he’s out of the south, he’s all over the world, and his video blog proves just that. Yela-Vision’s most recent post is essentially just random home made video from the road of everything from women, to the scenery, to the food, to just fooling around (even some subliminal shots of his boys caught sleeping on the trip.) But it just goes to show how much fun friends can have on a road trip… Even tho Yela’s road trip was paid for by Eminem and company. Check out his ‘Road To France’ below.
