I post again about Bali today but I had a so great day today... I wake up with this view and after bringing my wife and daughter to school, I work in a nice café....

 

 

After a nice meal in a small Warung (restaurant) and a jump into the pool, I went to see my products made last june with my friend Made. He bring me to his home and was happy to met his familly and his kids...

 

 

I bring some of the Helevetica recycled Teck wood with me to, well have them !

 

 

To end the day, we went to a small place called Warung Sopa with nice food, nice decoration, very japanese inspiration... and read some japanese magazines... Now it is 10h05 PM and I am working, or blogging, or both...

 

 

It looks like an ideal life (I made everything to let you think that), but there is a lot of wrong things going in Bali... It is paradise, but with human being on it, so it looks more a more like a big garbage... Will probably talk about this another time...

I am back in Bali for only one week and everything goes so fast, France seems so far away (it is) but, you know... I am very pleased to have found a great house, the first pictures you see below, with its nice pool. As everything in Bali, you need to negociate hard to get the right price ;) But it seems to be a great place to live and work... It have this amazing view on the jungle, and is really closed of Ubud, the city we live in... It also nice to be back in all these great restaurants which propose health food and... free wifi ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

More instagram shoot can be seen here. What do you use to show your instagram shoots ? Please email me other possibilites, it confusing me.

 

Maison & Objets is THE place to be if you want to develop your home object enterprise... or "was" the place to be... that's my point of view, but I am not sure I have time to develop, it is a long story... I was there last year, for another project, but it is also a long story...

 

So, it is something unique to be there and to see so much creativity... everybody need to be seen, so everything is "design"... the products of course, but the way to present them, the logo, the font work, the brochure, the signage... even people are sooo fashion... it is simply too much for one day (probably the reason why the fair is 5 days long)... I was myself looking for some new products for coming www.mr-cup.com as well as some inspiration too... and to share it with you... Here come the things that I have prefered.

 

Lars Zech is a wood sculptor... a very nice person, his work is impressive by the size of the items... I think is biography on his web is perfect : Born in Stuttgart 1971 / Lives and works in the black forest since 1995.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It always nice to see objects in real too like the ibrid products... ok for you, it will be just pictures ;)

 

 

 

I was, of course, attracted by this project called vegetal-identity

 

 

 

But objets that I like the most are one made of papers, and by graphic designers ;) Papier Tigre is a 1 year old company of 5 french people, and it was nice to talk and share about their project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was also happy to see new products by Labrador... there will be some of their products on sell on www.mr-cup.com soon ;)

 

 

 

 

 

Something crazy is the "pantone" products... I remember the first mugs but now it goes crazy, with ipad and iphone cases, wall arts, everything... it is too much in my point, but have to admit this wall was well done...

 

 

I guess this is the last post from France... this year ! Tomorrow, I will took the plane for a 13 hours flight to Kuala Lumpur... 3 hours to go to Bali after that... I am impatient, but the list of things to do today is just crazy... I will try to share some things via twitter from the airport...

 

I use to go to Paris to work, meeting clients... I rarelly visit it as a toursit, so yeasterday, we did that with my wife an daughter... It was very hot, and we use subway to go to one place to an other as we plan to a lot of things to do... And it was great... You can found on the map above the adresses, the subway station and the line number.

We start at Serendipity (Vanneau station - line 10), a shop dedicated to children rooms... The furnitures, the fabrics, the pupets, everything is unique and you want to buy them all... I finaly get 2 amazing books about home decoration that I will probably review later here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I won't talk about the restaurants because there as so much you can stop on the road... But I love the "Quai de Valmy" (Goncourt station, line 11) the nice place where Amelie Poulain ricochet in the movie ;) You can found there Artazart the most amazing book store for designers and photographers... they now have lomography camera and so much other stuffs...

 

 

 

 

At few streets from there, there is the most amazing gluten free place of all Paris ! As my wife and daughter are gluten free, we taste almost all the cakes ! Helmut newcake staff are so nice, and they also have great products such as these clipper teas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The place I was the most impatient to visit was the famous Merci concept store (St Sebastien Froissart station, line 8)... and I was not desepointed... we spend almost an hour in the shop and the great "cantine"...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And to end up this great day, we go the "Halles" (line 10) to take some stuff at MUJI... Just outside, there is the nice Lov Organic tea shop with these nice packaging...