Tag: French

Categories / Books, Design and Interiors, Kids

Alain Grée products at Saison

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Alain gree stickers

Following on from yesterday's Puffin book, here's more retro illustration for kids, this time with a French flavour, courtesy of Alain Grée at the Saison shop.

Alain Grée was the author and illustrator of over 300 children's books in France, mainly published during the 1960s and 70s. His work is now being widely reproduced across a wide range of stationery and gift items, from notebooks to posters to pocket mirrors.

The travel stickers pictured show an example of his distinctive style – in a colour palette of purple, pink and black he illustrates everything you'd need for a good holiday in France including cheese, wine and the Eiffel Tower!

The stickers cost €5 while the notebooks and posters cost €12 each.

See the range online

Categories / Design and Interiors

Armlite vintage-style floor lamp at Pedlars

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Big, chunky and able to direct light where you want it – that's this Armlite floor lamp at Pedlars.

It's a French lamp, with a solid cast iron base with wheels, steel frame and spun aluminium head – that concertina arm able to move the lamp's head pretty much wherever you need your light.

Requiring a 60-watt bulb and finished off with an orange cable and red switch, the lamp is available to add some vintage style to your home for £655.

Find out more at the Pedlars website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Liberty and Merci range

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Only last week we told you about the collaboration between Liberty and Target and now Liberty are teaming up with another international shop, this time the Parisian concept store, Merci.

The products have been designed by Marie France Cohen, the creative director of Merci and all use the distinctive Liberty patterns. The range includes everything from gillets to brooches to mugs and is in both stores and on-line from today.

Prices start at £6.50 for a notebook and go up to £175 for some items of clothing. The rather pretty mini suitcase pictured is £45.

See the range on the Liberty website

Categories / Art and Photography, Books, Women's Fashion

Paris Vogue: Covers 1920–2009 book

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Paris Vogue covers

Vogue is well known for its heritage in mapping changing fashions. Couple that with a touch of French style and this book, Paris Vogue: Covers 1920–2009, is tantalizing prospect.

It's been written by Sonia Rachline with foreword by current French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld and, over its 208 pages, it illustrates shifting trends in both clothing and magazine design. There masses of famous faces that show up, from photographers like Man Ray or Guy Bourdin, to cover stars like Twiggy, Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn.

A great book to sit and flick through, it costs just £14.22 from Amazon

Categories / Women's Fashion

Bourjois vintage-style limited edition make-up

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Bourjois Paris

Bourjois have made it easy to add a touch of French chic to your look with their new set of limited edition make-up. They've used Parisian artist Nathalie Lété to create new packaging for some of their little round pots featuring vintage looking illustration of famous Paris landmarks for the collection, called Rendez-vous à Paris. 

The images are reminiscent of old-fashioned tourist souvenirs of the city with the Arc de Triomphe, for example, featuring on a pot of shimmering white eye shadow while a blusher case shows the Eiffel tower. The result manages to capture some of the romance of the city and reflect the long of the association of the city with fashion and cosmetics. 

The range is available exclusively at ASOS in the UK. At £5.85 for an eye shadow and £6.85 for the blushers, it probably works out cheaper than going to Paris and buying them there! 

See them online

Categories / Art and Photography

Vintage French inspired wall art

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Vintage French wall art

This vintage French inspired wall art is based around a sweet and simple idea. It uses old French dictionary pages as a back-ground for illustrations based around simple words. The image above shows 'hello', while the other images use the concepts of 'love', 'play' and 'raindrops'. Raindrops also features a charming illustration of a rain cloud.

Each image comes ready-framed in waste off-cuts and costs £19.95.

Buy them from Lily and Lime