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Parisian Pavilion Created With 180 Recycled Wooden Doors

As part of the recently completed COP21, an experimental architecture project known as the Circular Pavilion opened its many doors for exhibitions and public debates in Paris. Designed by Encore Heureux Architects, the temporary structure is composed entirely of reused materials: from recovered wooden doors and used wooden exhibition panels to discarded furniture and abandoned street lights. The building follows the principles of circular economy, an approach where one person’s waste is another person’s resources (which explains the name, Circular Pavilion, despite its boxed shape).

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Historic 12th Century Abbey Becomes Hotel Fontevraud

The resting place of King Richard the Lionheart, a twelfth century abbey in the Loire Valley, France becomes a brand new hotel, The Fontevraud. 52 rooms and a super restaurant headed up by award-winning chef, Thibaut Ruggeri, the historic site is set in beautiful grounds. A traditional abbey on the inside, the interior presents a contemporary contrast, all easy-going beige, leather and wood.

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Liam Goslett Takes Lotuff Around the World 

There’s something about leather. Perhaps it’s its versatility, timelessness, or the way it gains character after years of use and abuse. Whatever it is, leather has always been linked to adventure and the outdoors.This summer, photographer and wanderer Liam Goslett hits the road with Lotuff’s vegetable-tanned trunk duffle, looking for new thrills, and of course, the odd photography subject. His expansive journey took him along backroads and fields in France and Spain; through beaches, deserts and the famed spice markets of Morocco, and beyond. From candid, humorous snaps of goats relaxing among tree foliage, to boat rides, bike rides and hikes across pastures and city streets, Liam’s duffle and camera were right by his side. Learn more about his travels here and shop Lotuff here.

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Pete Doherty On Heroin, Life in Paris And His New Film

In a Paris attic apartment decorated like a 19th-century dandy's den, a rottweiler snores on a velvet couch and dozens of candles give out a half-light. Pete Doherty kicks an apple core round the living room rug and chats in broken French to a friend on his cracked iPhone. Balzac novels are stacked high on the window ledge.

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Vogue: Monsieur Simons: Raf Simons at Dior

Simons was born in January 1968 to Jacques Simons and Alda Beckers in Neerpelt, which was “in the middle of nowhere, a village between cows and sheep.” Both parents came from big families, and gatherings with aunts, uncles, and cousins fostered a sense of community and togetherness that Simons, an only child, was drawn to. “I’d run to the next farm, where they had ten kids, and I would become the eleventh.” It wasn’t a life of privilege or wealth, but it was one of absolute love and dignity. “I am superproud of my parents—my mother was a cleaning lady, and my father was a night watchman in the army,” says Simons. “And now I stand in this world, and yeah, it’s a bourgeois environment, in a house that’s seen in France as the most important position in fashion, along with Chanel. But I don’t care about that. What I find amazing is that it’s a beautiful house where I can make clothes to make women happy. I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.”

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See Chromatics' 'Looking for Love' Score Chanel Fashion Show VIDEO

Despite the band being from Portland, Oregon, Chromatics' music plays like a high fashion European dream — Teutonic-toned iciness combined with Italian Disco heat — so it's no wonder the quartet was invited by Karl Lagerfeld to play Chanel's Parisian runway show in early October. The video for new song "Looking for Love" captures Chromatics at France's Grand Palais, perfectly at home perched above the endless stream of models and photographers. At five minutes, this is a much-abridged version of the synth-pop epic, which will run a whopping 17 minutes on the upcoming After Dark 2 compilation out via Italians Do It Better. The label's go-to videographer Alberto Rossini directs, giving this very recent footage an undeniably vintage feel.

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Let us introduce you to Sofia Coppola’s Paris in V79 The Travel Issue. 

WHY GO: With her classically elegant style, it is of little surprise that the writer and director—whose highly anticipated film The Bling Ring comes out next year—has established roots in Paris, with her husband (musician Thomas Mars) and their two children.

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