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I am often asked if I have any favourite things when it comes to<br />

designing and decorating, and I always have to stop, take a moment,<br />

and think. This is because there are just too many things that<br />

crowd to the top of my current list!<br />

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Interiors<br />

A Few of My<br />

<strong>Favourites</strong><br />

Favourite Design City?<br />

Paris, hands down<br />

the CIty of WIne Women and sonG has Been one of<br />

the big influences on the world for a long time. It seems that<br />

there is good design everywhere you turn in Paris. This is one of<br />

the nicest cities in the world to walk around in as the older centre<br />

is very human scaled. from the museé des Beaux arts at the<br />

louvre, which is the repository for everything fine, french and<br />

designed, to the marché aux Puces, or flea market, which is the<br />

place where everything else seems to end up, there is no lack of<br />

beautiful things to inspire any space.<br />

Then there is the food, the wine and the style that french<br />

men, and especially women, flaunt with seemingly effortless<br />

ease. It would not be difficult to devote an entire page just to<br />

by Bruce M. Forster<br />

fashion, so I’ll leave that to others and another time. Just suffice<br />

to say that the elegant simplicity that the french bring to<br />

fashion is something that we could all strive towards. no one<br />

replaces their entire wardrobe, but adds a new key element to<br />

bring them up-to-date.<br />

The french have been very good at the wine thing for a long<br />

time as well. I love a place where “table wine” is not looked down<br />

on as something that should stay in a brown paper bag. also,<br />

where on earth would we be without champagne, and all of its<br />

imitators as well? no matter the occasion, it is always better<br />

with something bubbly and sparkling to drink. as they say, vive<br />

la france, and especially vive le Paris!

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