💙🤍❤️ After a 16 year wait the @samaritaineparis enjoyed a graaaand reopening last week! 🍾 which I was delighted to be a part of! ✨✨✨ • Around a year and a half ago I was selected as the artist for the reopening and have worked in collaboration with @auditoire throughout the pandemic (remotely from Copenhagen) creating drawings for an AR-experience (app available on instagram 🤩), newspaper - which included a hyper-detailed drawing of the newly renovated La Samaritaine - and a live drawing which I created last Friday and Saturday 💙🤍❤️ • I was delighted to have been invited back to Paris for what was something of a historic day for the city of Paris! Located right next to Pont-Neuf it’s an absolute hub of history! It is the imagined location of Émile Zola’s 1883 novel ‘Au Bonheur des Dames’, an architectural gem created (and now newly renovated) by Art Nouveau architect Jourdain; and home to the biggest luxury brands in the 🌍🌎🌏 including @louisvuitton with whom we also worked together with as part of my project visit • In the face of so many obstacles I’m delighted we all made it! 🚄🚄🚄a 12 hr train trip and you’re in Paris! • Thank you to my project manager @mathcombo who I’ve been working together with for the past year and a half, @ruthyatlan who originally selected me for the project, the whole team from @auditoire 🎥 Fabien & Caroline pictured, 📸 @sbyconnection & @zaoui_fanny from La Samaritaine, Max who worked on the AR, and @ourmaninparis whom I worked with once agajn at the beginning of this project in Copenhagen • It was wonderful to see so many faces after so long! which included visits by so many children fascinated by the drawing process, the Mayor of Paris’ 1, 2, 3 & 4 arrondissements, Ariel Weil and the fantastic Parisian historian Marc Soléranski and support from lots of friends living in Paris! 💙🤍❤️ and thank you for a grrreeaatt stay in Paris @hoteldusentier 🦚 • 📸📸📸 Stephane Sby Balmy www.sbyconnection.com @sbyconnection • #lasamaritaine #lasamaritaineparis #danielvandernoon #livedrawing #auditoire #parispontneuf #🦚🦚🦚 #detaildrawinv #posca #samaritaine #citydrawing #eiffeltower #seine #parisfashionweek #artnouveau #muralparis (at Samaritaine) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ1C1LNhCnS/?utm_medium=tumblr
