By Diane, Design encountered in Paris

The best curated exhibit we saw was at Center Pompido:." Prehistory: A Modern Enigma" at Centre Pompidou was a journey we walked through on a serpentine path through room upon room.   Artists like Paul Cezanne was exhibited with 23,000fueled their creativity with scientific findings about prehistoric images.  They speculated where we are in the course of history now and in the future.

The last room of the Prehistory; A Modern Enigma exhibit featured an artist who made fanciful animals out of cardboard and painted them with poster paint. Children's craft tools!  The artist must have had a blast of fun. One important part of being human is having fun releasing the child in us. For the first time I see people of prehistoric times capable of creating just for the fun of it when survival needs were satisfied.

 I do not recall Gaugin being represented, but the exhibit's theme reminds me of Paul Gauguin's "Where Come we? What are We? Whither we Go?" his masterpiece after he left France. He was drawn to and respected the natives in Tahiti. He painted the women solid like prehistoric Venus of Lespugue.

                           We were stunned by this chair and foot rest provided to customers of the Bon Marche. Melissa and I liked the look but wondered if it was comfortable. It sure was we both agreed.

 

Arts de la table at the Bon Marche reinforces what I think.  We are all participants in creating art knowingly or not. The more we are aware, the more enriching it can be to design. 

Fast food is packaged and as a tourist we were hungry and sometimes tired or in a hurry so we purchased food at grocery stores. The packaging has far less plastic than I am used to here in Oregon. The folded paper boxes are also more aesthetic than molded plastic.

 Not all fast food cutlery was wood.