Russian gothic restaurant

I like this gothic chic ambiente. Ultra-cool! Especially the curiosity cabinet (last photo) which were very popular during the 16th - 18th century in Europe where the wealthy showed off exotic collectors items such as skulls, shells and feathers.

I wished such a restaurant also existed in Paris where chic and street art are skillfully mixed.

Photos: Marie Claire Italie

Finally, it's December!

Photo: Milk Magazine

I am happy that December has finally arrived and I can open my first door of my Adventskalender! Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel decorated the windows of Galleries Lafayette (a department store in Paris) this year. The Russian ballet dancer dolls above are one display in one of the windows. It is always exciting to see how the Christmas windows will be decorated.

Are the windows in the department stores in your country decorated for the Christmas season?

Remembrances of Russia & Lithuania

I was invited to a costume party last week and one costume I considerd was to go as 'Anna Karenina'. During my research for outfit ideas I really got into Russian 'old world' decor so I found these sumptuous overstuffed interiors by Alexandre Vassiliev, an international costume and set designer based in Paris,  who decorated his 1950s apartment in Moscow and a 1913 dacha in Vilnius, Lithuania, with a studied eye to the past. I think they evoke a csarist Russia.

All photos: Architectural Digest USA