A woman and her daughter in kimonos among peonies
Mix of a my photo of a peony in the Albert Kahn garden and a photo from the Albert Kahn museum’s photography collection.
Japanese woman in the shadow of a Japanese maple
Mix of a photo of a Japanese woman from the collection of the Albert Kahn Museum and my photo of a Japanese maple in the museum garden.
Japanese garden in the Albert Kahn garden near Paris (Boulogne-Billancourt)
“The Japanese garden, comprising a village (1897) and a shrine (1908-1909), was created following Albert Kahn’s travels to Japan. The largest part of the garden in terms of area, it recreates in miniature Japanese landscapes, blending domestic architecture, Asian plants, and evocations of sacred sites.” Sources : https://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/en/ and Picture this
Le génie de la Bastille veille sur Paris, quand vient la nuit…
The title means : “The spirit of the Bastille watches over Paris when night falls…”
The Marriott Hotel’s glass roof (Champs-Élysées, Paris)
The Marriott Hotel (Champs-Élysées) is located where the Louis Vuitton’s building was. The glass roof is beautiful ; it reminds me of the Sony center in Berlin (not a glass roof but very graphic and circular). This late Art Nouveau style building was built by the architects Louis Bigaux and Koller for the trunk maker…
