Next Show: Paris Paper February @ Espace Champerret

The boxes are back from LA and sorted out as I repack and take some of that material with me to Paris for the Paper Show next week. Once again at Espace Champerret, however in an abbreviated, more humane version running from the 14th to the 18th. I'll be arriving on the 12th and at the venue on and off throughout the duration of the show and departing Paris on the 20th. Let me know if you're there or in the city and would like to get together for drinks. Show details here.

I will be "standless" shopping and carpet-bagging my way around the show in countless rotations. The "vieux papier" shows continue a slow decline and the venue of late gloomy with all the bad economic news. Nonetheless many of the dealers create excellent displays of their best material helping to make this one of my favorite shows in one of my favorite cities.

Above: a bright spot from the Oct '12 paper show when some of the lovely strippers from the Pink Paradise Club showed up at cocktail time. Sante demoiselles!

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Brenot artwork for the Folies Bergere

Other salons, events and happenings in Paris: the 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Raw Visions magazine at the Halle Saint Pierre; the Paris premiere on the 19th of Jim Jarmuschs' latest film Only Lovers Left Alive a meditation on life, love, death and desire ~ arguably his best film ever; Robert Wilson (Einstein on the Beach) Living Rooms exhibition at the Louvre (run to that it closes on the 17th); at the Pompidou a huge, must see exhibition Plural Modernities 1905 ~ 1970 plus two other exhibitions of note: surrealisme and Frida Kahlo; the Musee d'Art Decoratif examines the career of designer Philippe Apeloig in Typorama as well as artist's books from Take Five Editions in the Ceci est un Livre exhibition which closes on the 15th.

Fete du Livre Poster 2012 designed by Philippe Apeloig

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Next Fair: Paris Paper Show October @ Espace Champerret

Back to Paris for the paper show, once again at Espace Champerret. Arriving on the 22nd, l'll be at the venue from the start of the fair on the 25th and off and on through the 30th. Let me know if you're there or in the city and would like to get together for drinks. 

Once again I will be "standless", shopping and carpetbagging my way, in countless rotations around the show. The "vieux papier" scene is certainly on the decline and the room somewhat gloomy with all the bad economic news. Nonetheless, many of the dealers create excellent displays of their best material. It remains one of my favorite shows in one of my favorite cities.

Other salons, events and happenings: the annual FIAC at the Grande Palais (worth the hefty admission price just to be inside and roam the marvelous steel girders of the 1890s crystal palace); the first Paris Outsider Art Fair; the 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Raw Visions magazine at the Halle Saint Pierre, the Show-Off near the FIAC across the Champs Elysee and a highly anticipated exhibition of corsets, undergarments and lingerie at the Louvre design center, Les Arts Decoratifs.  Plus the new show on the male nude at the Musee d'Orsay.


FIAC  2012

Paris Magazine, Sex-Appeal, Paravent, Parasol, Regal, Beaute et cie

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Next Show: Paris Postcard Fair Cartexpo May 2012

After an absence from the Paris Postcard Show I will be returning as a stand holder in May. Click here for details Cartexpo Paris Postcard Show  May 11 and 12th; Espace Champerret, Porte Champerret. This new venue for the show is also the perennial location for the fall paper show.


As always I will be featuring a wide selection of nudes, erotica and risque postcards as well as an excellent selection of advertising, propaganda, avant-garde, mechanical and illustrated postcards. I hope to see you at the show.

Above: Spiritism, ghost photography. German, circa 1905.

 Italian merchant marine, circa 1900.

 German Health & Hygiene Expo, 1911.

 Italian hotel adverting, 1905

 Italian advertising, circa 1930.

 German advertising, circa 1927.

 Futuriste design by Tato; Italian propaganda circa 1930.

 Futuriste design; Eolo legend, circa 1925.

 Italian aviation academy graduation card; circa 1927.

 Futuriste Italian military propaganda, circa 1930.

 PAX. Circa 1916 Italian anti-war, Christmas greetings. Artwork by Nanni.

Italian naval academy graduation card, 1933.

Italian political propaganda, circa 1940s.

German propaganda UBoat War, circa 1916.

"Vote Yes!" Worker's rights, circa 1920s.

German inflation explained using postage stamps, circa 1920s.

Progress showing Italy the way to the future, circa 1920s.

"God Save England!" German propaganda, circa 1916.

Italian aviation propaganda, circa 1930s.

German planes attack British fleet. Italian propaganda, circa 1940.

10th Anniversary of the Italian Air Force Academy, 1930s.

Germany flying prize, 1925. Illustration by Ludwig Hohlwein.

Anniversary of the first Italian trans-Atlantic flight, 1930s.

New York City skyline. Photo by Lewis Hine, circa 1930.

Czech steam locomotive. Dyed emulsion, circa 1930.

Photomontage Fritz Arys, performer; German circa 1920s.
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