The first in a new practice — a weekly visit to a place, exhibition, performance, or conversation in Paris. Not a review. A record of what it teaches about beauty, hospitality, and the art of living attentively.
Yesterday, I visited Pomellato's exhibition at Palais de Tokyo.
The photography was absolutely extraordinary.
Albert Watson, 1985 — as exhibited at Pomellato's Palais de Tokyo installation, Paris.
The exhibition celebrated the power of independent women through jewelry, but I found myself leaving thinking less about diamonds and more about recognition.
And then this morning, I received a lovely thank-you email inviting me back to collect a keepsake. One sentence stayed with me:
"We would be delighted to welcome you to our boutique..."
Lately, I've been thinking about hospitality and luxury a lot, and have arrived at this realization—
Perhaps luxury isn't only about creating beautiful experiences.
Perhaps it's about refusing to let them end too quickly.
I'm beginning a new practice I'm calling Cultural Rounds.
Each week I'll visit a place, exhibition, performance or conversation in Paris—not to review it, but to notice what it teaches me about beauty, hospitality and the art of living attentively.
This was the first.