The Weekender: Place Des Vosges, Paris
Each day I’m getting more and more excited about my trip to Paris, and the pleasure I get in planning it. I can’t seem to stop talking about what I often like to call, “my spiritual home.” Paris is beautiful all year around, but in the fall it’s a bit more special for me. It’s a time of rebirth, sort to speak, when Parisians are returning back to the city after spending their summers in the country or elsewhere.
photo via Pictures for Walls
Place des Vosges
We all know how hard it is to find some of the shops opened during the summer holidays, so it’s a delight to see everyone back doing business when autumn comes. In a few months, the long awaited Biennale des Antiquares will open its doors at the Grand Palais on Friday, September 14 through the 23rd, and Maison Object is a week before.
Place Des Vosges, circa 1830
Place des Vosges
Fountain view of Place Des Vosges, photo via World Is Round
Place Des Vosges
Photo credit: Flickriver
Place Des Vosges, architectural details
Photo credit: Flickriver
One of the four arches of Place Des Vosges, photo via Simonbuc
Place des Vosges
Photo credit Regis Pettinari ©
Photo credit Regis Pettinari ©
Watercolor painting of the fountain at Place Des Vosges, photo credit Regis Pettinari ©
Afternoon repose, watercolor (with fountain in the background), Place Des Vosges, photo credit Gerard Hauet ©
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Place des Vosges
Vyna St Phard, Place des Vosges, Paris, circa 2007
Photo courtesy: High End Weekly™
This is an ideal time to be in Paris to source out various fine and decorative arts for my clients. But flying across the pond also means that I’ll get to stay at Place des Vosges. There really isn’t any other square in the world like it. And that’s not a gross exaggeration.
This specific charming square is right in the heart of the Marais. Place des vosges is a large quadrangle surrounded by 39 houses built on a uniform plan with brick, stone, and stucco facades. Arcade ground floors and simple dormers. The trees that I’ve come to love over the years, were not planted in the central gardens until 1783. And as beautiful as they are, they did in my view damaged the overall symmetry of the square. Another interesting fact about Place des Vosges is that it acquired its present name in 1799, after the department of the Vosges was first to discharge its liabilities for the Revolutionary Wars. Who would of thought?
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