The City Secrets Travel Series presents its 5th volume, City Secrets Paris: The Essential Insider’s Guide, (2014, clothbound in its hallmark blue, 275 web pages, 4 x 7 inches, ISBN: 978-0-9898612-0-5:$19.95).
With over 150 insider ideas and 18 topographic maps, this long awaited overview to Paris complements the series that includes City Secrets: London, Manhattan, Rome, Venice and Florence.Unique to City Secrets
is the listing of remarkable people as well as expert contributors such as authors, journalists, painters, chroniclers, anthropologists, stars, directors, engineers, playwrights, and also restaurateurs – who reveal, through individual narrative and also understanding, obscure treasures regarding art, food, buying, architecture, as well as cultural and also historical spots. These are topics they may have spent a life time pursuing.
– End your quest for the very best delicious chocolate at La Chocolaterie de Jacques Génin
– Share an enchanting dish at Le Train Bleu, in the Gare de Lyon
– Bypass the crowd in front of the Mona Lisa and also, a few feet away, find an ignored Giorgione masterpiece
– Find a memento at Vernaison, the earliest flea market in Saint-Ouen
– Be amused by an eccentric gallery
– Go back in time at Chez Savy, an authentic Parisian restaurant
– Savor the best Napoleon in Paris!
– Take a daybreak stroll from Saint Germain to the Ile Saint Louis
Robert Kahn, designer as well as editor of the City Secrets collection, is principal and creator of the award winning company Robert Kahn Architect based in New York. A recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome, he has obtained countless honors from the New York phase of the American Institute of Architects.
A section of the profits from the sale of each publication is contributed to a charitable company:
CITY SECRETS PARIS: Médecins Sans Frontière; CITY SECRETS ROME: The American Academy in Rome; CITY SECRETS LONDON: The John Soane Museum, The Museum of London, and Whitechapel Gallery; CITY SECRETS MANHATTAN: The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund; CITY SECRETS FLORENCE & VENICE: Save Venice and the American Academy in Rome.
