Cultural Differences: Talking to Strangers in France
Talking to Strangers in France: Anna says: "Engaging with people is of huge interest to me. My late husband always said of me: "Anna collects people.”
Talking to Strangers in France: Anna says: "Engaging with people is of huge interest to me. My late husband always said of me: "Anna collects people.”
Podcast: This spring Mike Axinn and I went to Paris to see how artisans are able to practice their craft in a vibrant, urban setting. We wanted to discover more about the relevance of traditional skills in a world of 21st-century technologies.
If you love the tiny Parisian shops that make up the mosaic that is Paris read my interview with Paris based creative Sonja Bajic
Michael Cartwright likes drawing, painting, printmaking, working with beautiful red hardwoods and carving marble. He also works with found objects and discarded items, ‘old toys, bits of stick, anything’, and takes them to the local art foundry to get them cast in bronze. Once, he ripped the back off an old truck and used the metal to make a sculpture.
Emmanuel Fillion: Born in Soissons, France, he went to trade school at the age of 16 to learn how to renovate historical monuments by hand, specialising in granite.
Sculptor Nicolas Bertoux, originally from Paris, now living in Tuscany is being interviewed by Materially Speaking's Sarah Monk #2
Rebuilding of Notre Dame: The eyes of the world are watching, but Materially Speaking has a story for our ears - the story of its sound.
Join NZ-based writer & pilgrim Jennifer Andrewes living with early-onset Parkinson’s, as she walks 2,500km (Canterbury to Rome) on the historic Via Francigena route (England, France, Switzerland, and Italy in 110 days - July to October 2024)
The Postcard Exchange: We have come to the end of this very popular project. And what a joyous project this has been.
Learn more about these impressive grand architectural masterpieces. The sound! The most beautiful, the oldest, the converted... Also which films featured Gare du Nord and much more