Wednesday 30 May 2012
Yann Casparini I am a hotel manager. With a hundred of contemporary hotel managers we created this travel magazine to share our selection of addresses and tips.
Yann Casparini

Street art is all over the MEP

• 23 May, 2012 • Catégorie: Culture, Parisian moments

Sometimes, your eyes get lost while contemplating. At these moments, they sometimes reveal inscriptions made with fibers or with the tip of pens, this type of graffiti that often hides an anonymous poem written on a chair, or a concealed sign on your window in the metro wagon. This is what photographer Dominique Auerbacher [...]



Candies from Mazet

• 18 May, 2012 • Catégorie: Gourmet, Parisian moments

Impossible to resist temptation when Paris has so many gourmand addresses. Newcomer to the country of sweet flavors, the Maison de la Prasline de Mazet promises to satisfy numerous chocolate addicts. Designed by renowned architect Jun Yonekawa, the place is retro and design at the same time, with its stained glasses, panelling and flashy [...]



Mandorla Palace: decoration for the little ones

• 15 May, 2012 • Catégorie: Children, Parisian moments

Bed linen, stuffed animals, half-retro half-design furniture, Mandorla Palace is a children’s decoration boutique by Sandrine Thrèves, located in the heart of the Marais, you will fall for it, no doubt about that. We melt in front of the poetic atmosphere of the store, with its colored walls and goose or mushroom-shaped lamps. A [...]



Helmut New Cake forbids gluten!

• 14 May, 2012 • Catégorie: Gourmet, Parisian moments

Really late compared to its European neighbors, the city of Paris finally has its gluten-free bakery: Helmut New Cake. In a tearoom with a contemporary look, we taste cannelés or pies without health risks when we’re allergic. Gluten is dead, long live Helmut New Cake!

Good to know: the store is also a delicacy shop [...]



Christopher Wool at the MAM

• 10 May, 2012 • Catégorie: Culture, Parisian moments

For its first Parisian exhibition, it’s at the Musée d´Art Moderne de Paris (Modern Art Museum of Paris) that Christopher Wool, one of the most influential American artists, decided to display his abstract works. Pushing the limits of formal painting even touching Pop Art, he appealed to repetition, using several methods like spray, ink [...]



The Compagnie des vins surnaturels

• 3 May, 2012 • Catégorie: Bar, Parisian moments

From now on Paris counts with a new wine bar where is nice to sit with your male buddies, or why not, with your girlfriends, to play the enologists.  Because at the Compagnie des vins surnaturels (or the Company of supernatural wines) you wont taste anything but great vintage wines, served by the glass [...]



Bob Dylan exhibiting at Cité de la Musique

• 2 May, 2012 • Catégorie: Culture, Parisian moments

All generations have once heard about the iconic Bob Dylan or have at least listened to one of his mythic songs. Between 1961 and 1966, the artist composed 7 records that literally revolutionized the history of popular music and boosted him to another level, the one of great artists. Meanwhile, the incredible life of [...]



L’Instant d’Or: Parisian gourmand gold nugget

• 26 Apr, 2012 • Catégorie: Parisian moments, Restaurant

In the heart of the Triangle d´Or or Golden Triangle, in a design and romantic setting, is located a nugget that any gold digger would love to find. Because at l´Instant d´Or (Golden Moment), the new gastronomic restaurant at l´Avenue George V, we discover a contemporary and sunny cuisine, in all fairness, cooked by [...]



Neon, and there was light!

• 25 Apr, 2012 • Catégorie: Culture, Parisian moments

Are you staying in Paris this May 1st weekend? Be happy if you cannot leave the city like the rest of Parisians, because now you’ll be able to enjoy an exhibition without anyone covering parts of the work of art you’re trying to watch! Until May 6 (hurry, it’s almost over), we suggest you [...]



Doisneau sublimes Les Halles

• 16 Apr, 2012 • Catégorie: Culture, Parisian moments

For 40 years, the photographer Robert Doisneau didn’t get tired of immortalizing the district of Les Halles, that’s before it disappeared and gor transfered to Rungis in 1994. Witness of a time, he delivers throughout his clichés the testimony of a place with an amazing life, the true “womb of Paris”. It’s with this [...]



Les Fleurs: the quintessential girly store

• 12 Apr, 2012 • Catégorie: Fashion and design, Parisian moments

Here in Hoosta magazine, when we desperately want a clothes makeover with a girly touch we head straight to Les Fleurs, the cute accessory store on the 11th district. We always come out with a retro piece, a long necklace or even, a bag from the brand Sabrina, with acid colors that will match [...]