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Toulouse Lautrec and the masters of Montmartre

Toulouse Lautrec and the masters of Montmartre

May 10, 2024

Step into the Belle Époque Paris through the art of Toulouse-Lautrec & the Masters of Montmartre. Take a walk through the cobblestone streets of Montmartre with it’s air thick with the scent of artistic fervor and frivolities of the demi-monde.

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Maison Soquet Paris

Maison Soquet Paris

Mar 20, 2024

Maison Souquet is one of the multiple Parisian secrets. Once a pleasure house during the belle époque, today it’s an extraordinary hedonistic palace with a Jacques Garcia décor as indulgent and spirited as the illustrious courtesans it once housed. The 20 rooms ooze romance – guests can privatise the spa and the clandestine cocktail bar is wickedly pleasurable.

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Maxim’s Paris

Maxim’s Paris

Dec 30, 2023

There is a simple yet infallible recipe for winning the heart of a lady… It’s this: a dinner at Maxim’s! The legendary Maxim’s combines opulence, living history, and timeless fun. Opened in 1893, in the midst of the Belle Époque, Maxim’s became and remains the last word for elegance, where kings and dukes, duchesses and courtesans, danced, gossiped, smoked and feasted.

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Erotic luxury watches

Erotic luxury watches

Jul 14, 2023

Nudity and sexuality just happen to be something so hard wired into our species that it cannot help but find expression in art, craft, and technology – indeed, near everything we do. But luxury erotic watches are taking it to another level.

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Charles Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal

Apr 6, 2023

Charles Baudelaire saw beauty in sin, provocative, scandalous, debauched, paradoxical, disturbing but also quiet, tranquil and meditative, benevolent, sober and confessional. Les Fleurs Du Mal is the result of his soul’s searching for a refuge in the world of pleasure and fantasy.

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Bordello by Vee Speers

Bordello by Vee Speers

Mar 27, 2023

She claims: “I don’t like to follow the crowd. I like to seduce, with images that are at once disturbing and beautiful, but leaving a space for the viewer to enter my world. My portraits combine elements which evoke conflicting emotions that can surprise the viewer, telling a story that is somewhere between fantasy and reality, the obvious and the unexpected.”

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