Freunde von Freunden

You know how sometimes you can find an awesome site and forget to bookmark it and totally let the name slip by you, well that what happened with this site. I found it about a year ago and for a whole entire day (in between the tedious tasks of my then job) I was staring at these apartment shoots and dreaming of living in a big flat in Berlin (the size of apartments here are much to be desired). I finally rediscovered the site and am happy to see that they have expanded there apartment shoots and are doing more cities than Berlin ( I love apartment shoots!). Like most successful sites there's they have also just published a book on their Berlin shoots, yeah!

xMM

enhance the everyday

this is Pia.

she likes to travel, style interiors, take photos and make books.

this 

happens 

in 

Sydney

maybe Paris 

 and on some occasions

on a housebout in Amsterdam

she just recently released this book

with some of these lovely images inside

 

her website is amazing 

and secret confession, 

i'm just a little bit obsessed with her blog right now

for those of you in Australia 

this is for you

x MM

last night I met the Moon at Le Carmen

How often do you find yourself at a book club soiree at a bar, which happens to be not only be a UNESCO heritage sight but also the previous residence of none other than George Bizet ( the guy who wrote Carmen, you know, the opera). I'm guessing not very often.

However that is exactly where I found myself last night was the launch of The Tale of Three Cities.
The idea was to come along to Le Carmen with a book you've enjoyed and loved, no 'Eat, Pray Love', and exchange it with someone else for a book they have enjoyed and loved.

I personally think this is a fantastic idea, because not only does it make it easier to approach people but it changes the normal chit chat to be had between two strangers.
The ambience was great and everywhere there were peopple with books even the guy at the door. Yes i know what you might be thinking 'nerdy soiree', it was everything but. Some of my friends, well myself included, had this weird impression that if we didn't show up with a book we would not be allowed in, so some showed up with books not for exchange, but rather to have something to discuss.
So much to be learnt and even more to be read. My one friend brought along his favourite book of a french fashion photographer, Sarah Moon, and before last night I had no idea who she was, and all I can ask myself is HOW?

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Getting back to Le Carmen, this bar is incredible. From outside there's no name and if you didn't know it was there, you would just walk straight past it. Once inside however it's a completely different story.
Decorated by Antoine Platteau, 'un dcorateur de cinema', the entrance makes for a dramatic scene witha huge cage and a chair inside to your right.

Turning to your left one looks straight at the bar, which obviously like most has lots of bottles of alcohol behind it, but a snake in a jar, now that's something you don't see everyday.

 From this point on there is a room behind curtains to your left, dum dum dum all dramatic, and to your right a lounge with a huge grand piano, which is not just an ornamental piano, but one for playing.

There is a lot more to this bar than what I have explained, but what would be the fun in it for me to tell you about it, when what you really need to do is to go there and experience it first hand.

So I leave you with that thought and the music of the song writer who played there last night, Tom Rosenthal.
Superfresh by Tom Rosenthal

x M