Christmas in Paris 2010: Le Bon Marché

I have to say the windows at Le Bon Marche are my favorite this year. I love the striking simplicity of them with the colors of blue, pink, orange, and red dramatically changing the landscape every few moments and crystal globes with sparkly baubles inside, on top of mountains of snow.   

Le Bon Marché
24 rue de Serves 7th. arr.
Metro: Sevres-Babylone

Eye Prefer Paris Photos for Sale

I am happy to announce the sale of prints of my Eye Prefer Paris Photos.  I am offering 17 of my most popular and iconic images for sale including my courtyards, doors, architectural details, statues, and monuments. They will make great holiday gifts for all your Francophile friends, relatives, and colleagues but don't forget to buy some for yourself.

Click here to see photos and for full details including sizes, prices, and shipping. Here is a sample of some of the photos.

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotteís professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
 Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Comments

[jill]

Thanks for the pics of Le Bon Marche. They made me wax nostalgic for the way it looked in 1978 and 1979, when I lived close by.

It really merited its name then, which means as you know " To the Cheap, The store was like a bargain fair, especially the rez-de-chaussee

A gobble de gook of merchandise: you could find: burlap bags of spices, millinery , artificial flowers, porcelain blanche,men's sox,cosmetics and hand bags of

course, cameras, an exhaustive rayon of stationery,( they were always excellent on that), mercerie , ladies undergarments ,gloves, shoes, and maybe more.....

[Cheryl]

Thanks so much for all of these wonderful Christmas windows! One of these years I WILL get to see Paris in her Christmas splendor!! Hoping to see you in February. Have a wonderful holiday season and a very happy new year!

[discount coach handbags]

Good to see you had fun - and managed to photograph some tricky mittens!