LUXE Link Roundup: Beef Club in Paris, Met Gala in NYC, and ‘Theatre of Nature’ in the Netherlands
BY The LUXE Editors
Paris' Beef Club Ballroom looks like our new favourite watering hole
Welcome back to our weekly LUXE Links, in which we source some of the week’s best reads from around the web and around the world. This week, behind the scenes at the Met Gala, a ‘Theatre of Nature’ in the Netherlands, and an extensive look at Paris’ The Beef Club. Get clickin’, chickens!
Burgers and cocktails at Paris’ Le Ballroom du Beef Club, from the owners of LUXE fave ECC. [HiP Paris]
More than 1,000 artists showcase at the 3-day Frieze Art Fair pop up on Randall’s Island, NYC. [Guardian UK]
A unique and ‘Modern Australian’ menu that wows at Cumulus Inc in Melbourne. [E-ting Food]
A behind the scenes with Olivier Theyskens and Caroline Trentini before this year’s Met Ball. [Into The Gloss]
Seven million square feet of flowers at the once-in-a-decade ‘Theatre of Nature’ in Venlo, southeast Netherlands. [New York Times]
Guest Blog: All I Want For Christmas with Vanessa Jackman – Original Favor Girl Poster from the 1950s
BY The LUXE Editors
Open your eyes, love!
Dear hearts, today’s ‘All I Want For Christmas’ is a guest post by the fab Aussie lawyer turned London-dwelling photographer, Vanessa Jackman. You can check out Vanessa’s snaps from the streets of London, New York, Paris and other fashion hot stops on her eponymous blog, vanessajackman.blogspot.com.
What: Vintage advertising poster for the French Favor bicycle and motorcycle company.
Who: Pierre Bellenger, artist.
Where: Original vintage poster store Galerie Montmartre. 197b Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. T: +61 3 9486 8686. W: galeriemontmartre.com.
Why: I adore quirky, original French vintage posters, and this one caught my eye as soon as I walked in the door. I love the colours, the movement of the girl’s hair as she rides the motorcycle, and the way she is applying her lipstick! Probably not the ideal thing to do while cruising about on a bike, but it makes for a super cute poster.
How much: Price on application, although I’m so disappointed it’s already been sold. Hopefully, they’ll source another one on their next buying trip and someone will buy it for me as a gift.
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Rich man, Poor man..."
When it comes to fashion retail, Melbourne, with its warren of tiny city laneways hiding all manner of cool boutiques, seemingly has it all over its brash northern sister, Sydney. A flick through the brand new edition of our LUXE Melbourne guide reveals that it’s not just women who are spoilt for choice however, blokes get a major look-in too. Here then, are three unique, specialist men’s wear stores featured in the guide that’ll have dandies and regular Andys standing out from the galahs.
Sampling the goods in Yarra
Dear hearts, we don’t know about you, but come Friday, there’s only one thing on our mind – why, vino, of course! Wouldn’t it be just peachy to nip down to Melbourne with a side trip to Yarra Valley just an hour east of the city? You’ll find a whole section dedicated to this lovely wine country in our brand new edition of the LUXE Melbourne guide, where we share our fave wineries, gastropubs, and even an art museum and animal sanctuary if you fancy seeing Skippy.
Want more pics from the LUXE team’s travels around the world? Check out this album on our Facebook page.
Come on inn
Art hotels can all too often be a challenge to stay in – where form usurps function, and where comfort plays Madge the bridesmaid to art’s bridezilla. So it’s a relief to find that you can revel in beautiful works and sleep like a beauty at the same time at The Olsen, the new, effortlessly chic Melbourne pied-à-terre filled with works by the revered Aussie artist Dr John Olsen, located on fashion strip Chapel St in the chi-chi inner-city suburb of South Yarra.
Bang for your buck coffee at Dead Man Espresso
In Melbourne, coffee rools, as the Aussies would say. It’s discussed more heatedly than sports, politics and religion put together. Anyone dumb enough to proclaim a place as having the city’s best coffee will spark a riot or be garroted. And if you don’t know your Arabica from your robusta, or your cold drip from your left tit, heaven help you. Brace yourself though, as the quest for caffeine nirvana gets taken up another notch.
Marriage saviour
We know you’re a busy jetsetter, but bring back another last-minute duty free keychain or inflatable Tokyo Tower, and you might have a marriage to save. Luckily, we’ve hunted high and scoured low for five perfectly stylish gifts for you to bring back from afar that put the ooh in souvenir and the aah in ‘darling, I missed you’. They won’t break the bank and they won’t be going out in the garbage along with your belongings…
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