Modern Art Find: MaMo Marseille
One visit to MaMo Marseille and you’ll understand right away why this city is a European capital of culture. There is something truly extraordinary about showcasing inspirational modern artworks atop one of urbanist Le Corbusier’s greatest architectural achievements. The landmark building Cité Radieuse, is a vast apartment complex built in the early 50s just outside […]
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Jazz Club Find: U.Percut Marseille
U.Percut is where Marseille’s musically educated congregate in the evenings. The small, subterranean nightlife hotspot keeps a pretty strict music policy covering local and international jazz acts as well as attracting underground musical tastemakers such as Quantic, Alex Barck and Mo Kolours who play curated global sounds for the discerning audience. http://u-percut.fr/ U.Percut Marseille 127 […]
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Shopping Find: Honoré Décoration Marseille
If you’re staying at Casa Honoré, which in our opinion is Marseille’s chicest bed & breakfast, you’re going to covet almost every piece of furniture and décor in there. Fortunately, adjacent to the guest house visitors will be pleased to discover owner Annick de Lestrohan’s home and furniture store Honoré Décoration. The studio, which is […]
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Restaurant Find: Orgasme Marseille
Orgasme is Marseille’s freshest, most innovative take on pan Asian cuisine ”“ a true temple of taste that locals look to for a clean, modern and minimalistic interpretation of anything from raw Vietnamese salad (Goi Ga) to Japanese donburi. Just walking past Orgasme will attract any design lover’s attention. The light, bright, expansive space situated […]
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Restaurant Find: Café Populaire Marseille
Enter through the bar area to the back dining room and let your inner-interior designer relish in visual delight. Café Populaire Marseille has been designed in mid-century modern style with elements of industrial vintage and traditional French elegance, but it’s the generous skylight and outdoor dining terrace that make this restaurant special. Go for lunch, […]
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Design Bed & Breakfast Find: Casa Honoré Marseille
At Casa Honoré Marseille, the most fashion-forward bed & breakfast in the city, guests can relish in surroundings that can only be described as Marseille chic crossed with a Moroccan riad. The former printing factory converted into an art-filled inn has four individually decorated guest rooms that reflect the owner’s excellent taste and affection for […]
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Beach Find: Calanque de Sormiou Marseille
Marseille’s Calanque de Sormiou has been dubbed (by us) as the lazy man’s calanque. Although a trip to Marseille shouldn’t happen without a visit to one of its breathtaking calanques, they take hard work and effort to get to ”“ often requiring hours of hiking or even kayaking to enter the secluded inlets. If this […]
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Contemporary Art Find: Chateau la Coste Provence
Situated just 20 minutes drive from Aix en Provence, amongst the sunny Provençal countryside is Chateau la Coste, a place where wine, modern art and architecture intermingle in the way unlikely best friends would. Sure, it’s not the first time wine has been paired with art but there really is something about the way Chateau […]
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Luxury Hotel Find: Domaine de la Baume Provence
(This article by Jenny Nguyen-Barron first appeared in ForbesLife. Click here to read the original) Perhaps, like me, you’ve wondered what it’s like to be part of the old-world French aristocracy summering in the South of France. I envision days spent strolling amongst the heartbreaking natural beauty of hillside Provence within the private grounds of […]
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