The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | yesterday
Is the Carrousel du Louvre getting a Wok n’ Roll and Spencer Gifts, too? A month after McDonald’s announced plans to besmirch the Carrousel du Louvre, the “upscale shopping mall” became home to France’s first Apple Store. Much like a chubby bunch of yanks outside a Walmart on Black Friday, throngs of French shoppers lined up [...]
übergizmo (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apple stores always look classy and expensive, but you can’t probably get classier than Apple’s latest store in the Carrousel du Louvre, beneath the great glass pyramid at the Louvre Museum. This is also the first Apple store in Paris and also in France, so it’s certainly something special. In case you couldn’t find the time to check out the place, you can check out pictures...
The Modern Historian (Free subscription) | yesterday
On 8th November 1793, as the Reign of Terror began in Revolutionary France the Palais du Louvre (Louvre Palace) first opened in its new role housing a national museum. The palace started life as a twelfth-century fortress, which successive generations of French monarchs altered and expanded. In the mid-eighteenth-century, King Louis XV accepted a proposal to use part of the palace as a gallery in which...
Urban Sketchers (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Ming Pei Pyramid and Pool, The Louvre (from the Café Marly ) pencil and a little coloured pencil in Moleskine Sketchbook copyright Katherine Tyrrell I was able to sketch in the Louvre Museum on my recent trip to Paris. The sketch above was done while having lunch after a mammoth walk around the Denon and Richelieu wings looking at the paintings. It's very easy to get fit walking around the...
HardMac.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
That's it we finally went out of the first Apple Store to open in France. In order to preserve security, people can only come in when others are laving the store. The authorities were estimating this morning about 6,000 people queuing in front of the Apple Store. In other words, while we are leaving, some might not even be able to enter the store before hours. Below are some photos taken just before...
HardMac.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
While we thought we will be the first, there was already 200 people queueing , and a large number of new comers are arriving. First Mac users were already there at midnight!
Versailles and more (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thanks to Ellen at Eighteenth Century Worlds for bringing to our attention an article in the New York Review of Books on Dominique Vivant Denon. It is quite interesting in spite of a few errors (the painter Jacques-Louis David did not enjoy "an excellent standing with the Jacobins", he was one of the foremost Jacobins himself, and the Rosetta Stone did not head for London after the second...
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
There's a price for everything, even in the Louvre: Tomorrow, Apple will be opening up their very first Parisian Apple Store, and it'll sit in the concourse right below I.M. Pei's glass pyramid. According to Bloomberg, this'll be Apple's 277th store, worldwide. It's set to be slightly smaller than the one on Oxford Circus in London. But it's not tiny: The bilevel store will employ 150 people. You...
Hypetrak (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Featuring a bold geometric pattern inspired by the Louvre Pyramid, this collection from Incase was designed and created for the November 2009 opening of the Apple Store, Carrousel du Louvre, in Paris, France. The limited-edition collection, available exclusively at the Apple Store, Carrousel du Louvre, includes a Messenger Bag, 13″ MacBook Pro Sleeve and iPhone [...]
MacDailyNews (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Paris's Louvre museum on Thursday launched an application giving Apple iPhone and iPod touch users...
ifoAppleStore (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Thousands of visitors from several countries visited the new Carrousel du Louvre (Paris) store on Saturday, including a hearty band of 22 who began the wait outside the famous Louvre Museum in 40-degree temperatures and rain. There were at least 500 in line at 10 a.m. to examine the country’s first Apple store, which also [...]
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | yesterday
Aztec emperor Montezuma welcomed Hernán Cortes into Tenochtitlán with a great celebration in 1519. That worked out well for him, didn't it? The Bodleian Library opened to the public in 1602. The Louvre was opened to the public as a museum in 1793. Wilhelm Röntgen discovered x-rays in 1895 and the death penalty was abolished in the UK in 1965. Born today: Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476),...
ArchitectureChicago PLUS (Free subscription) | yesterday
. Microsoft Cafe opens at 47 Boulevard Sebastopol. Apple Store opens at Carousel du Louvre , beneath the famous museum and in clear sight of I.M. Pei's iconic glass pyramid. The acolytes gather, en masse .
Connected Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Steve Jobs Name CEO Of Decade Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs as the CEO Of The Decade. The magazine has stated that not only did Steve succeed in the personal computer business but he also succeeded in selling music, movies and mobile phones. So while being successful at one business is quite enough for most, [...] Related posts: Apple Vs Apple Legal Battle AT&T Drags Verizon To Court For...
I Am Joe's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Experiencing the new Apple Store at the Louvre. Oh, the crowds! Oh, the shiny gadgets! #
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komal111 | 07/08/2009
LG GC990 Louvre 12.1MP touchscreen featurephone unveiled LG’s latest super-snapper cellphone has broken cover, and from the spec-sheet at least you’d think this was the handset to quash all point-and-shoot digicams. The LG GC990 Louvre is tipped (despite LG’s own denials; see after the cut) to launch later on in 2009, taking the place of the existing LG GC900 (aka the Viewty II), and brings with it
mitalpatel1212@gmail | 06/15/2009
Samsung B7610 Cell Phone Product Details And price Review Samsung, the South Korean electronic giant officially does not provide any details but it seems that the new Samsung B7610 Louvre is expected to become available on the market as soon as July 2009. That seems a likely proposition, but we will need to wait for an official announcement from Samsung before we know for certain. Read More From Orginal
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