November 11, 2016
Paris One Forty: Week Sixteen
Top of the Louvre, straight up, 4pm in early December: all of this intricacy far from eye level and ever astonishing. pic.twitter.com/Ujc2Hj0Kgn
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) December 2, 2014
A visitor above my atelier — and a hint of the Paris made comically memorable in The Aristocats. I’ll play Eva Gabor. pic.twitter.com/v2bxL4Qm9F
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) December 3, 2014
Far from Deyrolle, near Place de la Victoire, taxidermy inhabits its own magical world. The city never, ever, sleeps. pic.twitter.com/bzHQAs37Ee
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) December 4, 2014
Didactic and determined, pretty much nothing about this typeface says it is a hair salon for women. But just in case. pic.twitter.com/lqOYuKqCo3
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) December 5, 2014
It may not be Robert Frost’s “narrow wood” but divergent signs testify to the fact that maps can only get you so far. pic.twitter.com/uNa1yBm3Un
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) December 6, 2014
Evergreen means something different in Paris, where the cafe chairs stay outside most of the year, even at Christmas. pic.twitter.com/7rzbp92sL8
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) December 7, 2014
Politician and writer Villemain was also reportedly something of a genius in the wit department. And so is that lion. pic.twitter.com/5qlQefTa9P
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) December 8, 2014
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By Jessica Helfand
Jessica Helfand is an artist and writer based in New England. A former critic at Yale School of Art and one of the founding editors of Design Observer, she is the author of several books on visual culture including Self Reliance, Design: The Invention of Desire, and Face: A Visual Odyssey. jessicahelfand.com
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