THE SAILBOAT IN THE CLOUDS

Take a small sketch drawn on the white page of a notebook, pair it with thousands of panels of transparent glass, then construct it out of glass timber and steel... we adored the behind-the-scenes architectural trail of Frank Gehry's design and construction of The Louis Vuitton Foundation .

Set on a basin, the building was designed like a sailboat or a vessel poetically floating in the clouds above Paris fitting into the natural environment, between woods and garden, playing with light and mirror effects - it had us both entranced all morning.

Dinner was in a new area for us called Odeon which seems to specialise in bookstores and manuscripts. Fittingly, it was the Bistro of poems where we ate, including a delicious pear served with molten chocolate poured over it, yum!

Wow, the most amazing library, great to relax in with specialties in comics and art history (bibliothèque national de France)Read more