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Paris Windows, Whimsy and Wonder

 Finally, my photos are rolling in and out of their cyber-tunnels as they should be, and now the problem will be sorting through them all and deciding which to share. All as we're getting ready to take the train out of the city tomorrow.  We've had a lovely, busy enough three days walking off our jet lag -- I haven't been getting as much sleep as I need, and my knee has been crankier than I'd like, but we've still managed to see two enjoyable exhibitions in a couple of manageably scaled museums  (the Balenciaga, as I mentioned earlier, in the Musée Bourdelle, and Alicia Kolpowitz's gorgeous collection of paintings and sculpture, exhibited in the sumptuous Musée Jacquemart-Andre.

 As always, though, I find just as much stimulation in the city's shop windows, even though we've confined ourselves to three arrondissements, for the most part, with a tiptoe into an adjoining one or two. Within a kilometre or so from our hotel, for example. . . .

 These whimsical windows in a millinery shop in St. Germain -- which I couldn't help but think of the next day when we saw that Balenciaga hat I showed you the other day.

 I mean, who doesn't want a sweet little bird nesting on one's head?

Not so sure where this giant millinery ant wants to nest, but while I wouldn't want him at my picnic. . . .

 he's rather impressive, no?
If you're curious about the prices on that list you can glimpse underneath Mr. Ant's nether parts, they range from 350 to 600 or 800 Euros, if I remember correctly. Better just too look then, if your budget's anything like mine. Window-shopping's free, after all!

 It might be free, but I suspect that window-dressing provides employment for many artists and artisans, and it seems to me to feed a marvellous cycle of art's inspiration and realisation that permeates Paris at so many levels.

The earthy levels of our aardvark, for example (and I suppose that Ant, a few doors away, might be twitching antennae nervously and scurrying back to its hill, away from hungry anteaters).

Sometimes, it's the transformation of the most ordinary materials into surprising shapes and possibilities that delights me. Corrugated cardboard, for example, abracadabra'd with scissors and glue. . .

 Okay, yes, I might have been distracted from the cardboard sculpture by these tempting espadrilles. . .

and perhaps even made a note of the price list  . . .

 and a reminder of the shop I'd seen them in (Cotélac, and don't you love that whimsical graphic, which they've printed on a fabulous white top? Resisted, so far. Window-shopping's free, remember?)

 A few blocks away, the windows of the Bon Marché also use strong graphics and simple materials to wonderful effect. Truth be told, I'm a bit leery of this commercial recourse to endangered species, these supposedly consciousness-raising campaigns used in service of a consumerism that might itself be indicted in that endangerment.

 But when I get down from the soapbox, I nonetheless enjoy the whimsy, although I suspect it does little for the gorillas....

 As I say, I have oodles more Paris photos to share with you, and a few anecdotes as well, but we have to get out into a sultry Paris evening and figure out some dinner, get ourselves to a bridge for a 10 p.m. twinkling of Mme. Eiffel's lights, and then stuff everything back into our cases for a day on the train tomorrow.

So I'll leave you with one last window dressed with unconventional materials -- in this case, computer cables in a variety of colours, cleverly complementing a Vitrine full of luxury goods (the cynic in me pipes up about the sustainability of our cabled world and whether that might have anything to do with our vanishing gorillas a few windows away, but she shrugs a realistic/resigned shrug and chooses to be consoled with beauty or ingenuity or mere distraction, perhaps -- And perhaps raised consciousness, tickled by art, can make meaningful change. And what did cynicism ever do for her anyway?)

All that inner muttering aside, I must say I'm quite pleased with this image, the early morning City reflected in the glass . . . .

I'll leave you with that, shall I, and totter off for a Kir somewhere in the day's waning sunshine. When next I write to you, I'll be in a different city. I suspect there will be wonderful windows there as well. À bientôt!

And I'm sorry I'm not finding time to respond to your lovely comments, but I've decided I'm going to enjoy reading them -- and please, please do keep them coming! -- but not feel guilty if I don't answer. Time with Pater is the priority for now, quite honestly, as much as we both appreciate your huge contribution to this blog. I hope (indeed, knowing your generosity, I'm quite sure) you'll understand if I take this break from my normal efforts to answer each and every response individually.

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