Located just a short walk from the Trocadero and opposite the Eiffel Tower, the Radisson Blu Le Metropolitan Hotel is Paris’s newest luxury boutique hotel.
Conceived by the famous designer Francois Champsaur, the 48-key boutique hotel features ten suites, five with unrestricted Eiffel Tower views.
The signature Eiffel Suite is a 430-square-foot one-bedroom suite located on the sixth floor.
A few weeks ago we showed you Christian Dior’s latest advertisement for their Lady Dior handbags. The dramatic photographs star Academy Award winning French actress Marion Cotillard, the iconic Eiffel Tower, and of course, that chic patent Lady Dior purse.
Now the fashion house has released this short film which takes you behind the scenes of this stunning shoot. You will see how photographer Peter Lindbergh creates his breathtaking images, and just how beautiful Marion looks even before the make-up team weaves their magic.
The Paris commercial is the first in a series of four new Lady Dior advertisements. Each will be set in a different international location. Via zimbio
Here’s is a sneak peek of the first of four Christian Dior Ads featuring Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard.
“Perched on top of the Eiffel Tower, its intricate metalwork echoing the canework pattern on the iconic tote, Cotillard posed for photographer Peter Lindbergh wearing an enigmatic expression — and a sexy black number by John Galliano from the spring collection.”
The spots are the first in a four-part series, with Paris being only the first city and chapter. Further details about her next adventure, and what precious cargo she’s carrying, are to be revealed on a forthcoming The campaign will run twice a year.
Last Monday at Drouot, Paris main auction room, a piece of Eiffel tower staircase was sold for 80,500 euros ($105,000). It’s 3 meters and a half high, 20-step section, 1 meter 70 cm round, and weights over 700 kilos.
It’s a piece of a staircase leading from second to third floor, which was cut in twenty four pieces and sold in auction in 1983.
The original 1911-step staircase leading up the tower was removed so that elevators could be installed. Gustave Eiffel himself climbed the staircase in the 1889 inaugural ceremony.
French people are well known for their Luxury taste, and this brand new concept phone is another proof of just that !
MobiFrance has recently partnered up with Sony Ericsson to develop a concept cell called the French Luxury. The FL is designed to commemorate France’s Independence Day (July 14) by bearing a strong resemblance to the Eiffel Tower, the most recognizable French landmark.
The phone is equipped with a full touchscreen and a 7.2 mega pixels camera. It can stand like a tower and has speakers on the sides. It supports multimedia functions including video and also features vibration mode. (No word on pricing and availability yet.)
A nice souvenir from Paris though, more glamourous than any golden Eiffel Tower made In China!
One of the world’s most beautiful city skylines could be changed dramatically after a ban on high-rise buildings in Paris was scrapped last week.
The Paris city council voted Tuesday to consider erecting tall buildings on the rim of this historically low-rise capital. Plans to build towers of up to 220m at six sites in the French capital will now go to public consultation. They will contain shops, offices and childcare centres.
Socialist mayor Bertrand Delanoe also wants new blocks of flats to counter a housing shortage.
The ban on buildings exceeding 40m was introduced in 1977. Many believed that the 350m Eiffel Tower should be the only building dominating the skyline. Building height limits have changed little in Paris since Baron Haussmann redesigned the city during the mid-19th century, with caps now at 121 feet.
Only a handful of exceptions have been made for high-rise projects in recent decades The new decision means that six new sites, under consideration for completion between 2012 and 2014, could host buildings reaching as high as 656 feet, or a little under two-thirds the height of the Eiffel Tower.
The city is currently home to only a scattering of towers, notably including the Montparnasse Tower, which, at 690 feet, stirred controversy when it was built in 1972 and is still considered an eyesore by many Parisians today. Mr Delanoe insisted the new rules would not blight Paris, saying the administration would not repeat the mistakes of the past.
