Jessie Kanelos Weiner
Auteur de Paris in Stride: An Insider's Walking Guide
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Jessie Kanelos Weiner
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Kanelos Weiner, Jessie
- Nom légal
- Kanelos Weiner, Jessie
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Courte biographie
- Jessie Kanelos Weiner is a bilingual artist, illustrator and author living in Paris. Illustrating for a wide range of clients, Jessie's signature watercolor style is commissioned from luxury houses (Cartier, Free People, Atelier Cologne), food brands (Nespresso, Great Jones, Elle à Table) to editorials (Vogue, New Yorker, T MAG). She is currently painting large-scale watercolors and working away on her next book about watercolor with Artisan, to be released in 2025. Jessie is also an ambitious home cook and standup comedian. Her current show “Paris, I Suppose” is at Un Jour Une Illustration gallery Paris until February 24th. She is represented by Lipstick London.
Membres
Critiques
I almost never read a tourist guide book cover to cover. Paris in Stride is an exception. The text is comprised of seven idiosyncratic walks through most of the arrondissement of Paris with stops ranging from wine cellars to artist studios to upscale eateries and the best boulangerie in the city (I’m definitely headed there!). In an age of ubiquitous connectivity, Google maps, and Citymapper, there is no need to burden a guide book with details of how to use the metro or what exactly absolutely everything you will see might be. Instead a guide can and perhaps should be selective, thoughtful, reflecting the writer’s special interests. In this case, it is clear that Sarah Moroz is a fan of “natural wine”, which gets numerous mentions. But so too do many gastronomic hot spots, often smaller and friendlier offshoots of a famous chef’s main restaurant. However, as much as the text entices, it is the charming illustrations by Jessie Kanelos Weiner that make this book the delight that it is.
Recommended.… (plus d'informations)
Recommended.… (plus d'informations)
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 16
- Membres
- 70
- Popularité
- #248,179
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 17
- Langues
- 6
And even though some shops, bars and restaurants may change/close in the next few years, the bulk of the content provides info about historic buildings, architecture, museums, and other long-time classic spots that I know will still be there when I next visit.
The only complaint I had was the misinformation about famous historic book shop Shakespeare and Company. It is well-known that this literary institution was a 1920s expat hangout founded by American Sylvia Beach in 1919 and frequented by writers such as Hemingway, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. It closed in 1941 during the German Occupation in WWII. Author Sarah Moroz only refers to the reopening of the bookstore in 1951 with a new owner. That's not the reason it is a "veritable pilgrimage point for writers and readers." I wanted to dock the review a star for this glaring omission, but the rest of the book makes up for it so I still gave it 5 stars.… (plus d'informations)