Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9783836509329
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 3836509326
Label: TASCHEN America Llc
Manufacturer: TASCHEN America Llc
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc
Studio: TASCHEN America Llc

This book combines all of Angelika Taschen s recommendations for Paris hotels, shops, restaurants, cafes, and bars into one volume, ensuring visitors a wealth of ideas and a guarantee that their Parisian sojourn will never have a dull moment. From the ultra-hot Colette fashion concept store to Tom Ford s secret hideaway to Hemingway s favorite brasserie, all of the best insider tips are gathered together between these covers so that when you hop out from under yours, you ll have plenty of exciting things on your agenda.

Highlights include:

Decorative ceramics shop Astier de Villatte
The ultra-modern Comme des Garçons perfume and candle boutique
Ladurée, the best macaroons in the city
Ma Bourgogne restaurant on the beautiful Place des Vosges
Classic bistro Allard that has hardly changed in 70 years
Left bank restaurant La Palette, a favorite of Picasso and Braque
Brasserie Lipp, where Hemingway ate the eat herrings he wrote about in A Moveable Feast
The ultra-luxurious Ritz hotel on elegant Place Vendôme
The cozy and cute Hôtel Bourg Tibourg in the Marais
Hôtel Verneuil in St. Germain-des-Prés opposite the former residence of Serge Gainsbourg
The quintessentially French Hôtel Duc de Saint-Simon