Invisible Paris

About Invisible Paris

Placed on January 28th, 2009 by Lisa

located in Paris

"A celebration of the parts of Paris that would be refused entry to the ville musée if they tried to get in today, and musings on invisibility in general."

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posted on
March 19th, 2013
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Invisible Paris
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A Walk On the Waterfront

A building transformed into a giant paint pot might seem surprising, but it is only one of several curiosities on the quixotic Quai d'Austerlitz.

Take the lines 5 or 6 of the Metro as they f ...

posted on
March 11th, 2013
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Invisible Paris
based in
Paris

Searching for Somewhere on the Road to Nowhere

One of the first posts I wrote on this blog back in 2008 was about a mysterious bricked-up passageway in the 9th arrondissement. Thanks to the recent intervention of a reader who happens to live ab ...

posted on
March 2nd, 2013
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Invisible Paris
based in
Paris

A Musical Map of Paris

An interactive online map highlights the musical geography of Paris, but what does it tell us about the city?

The map, originally created to accompany an exhibition held last year in Paris, ...

posted on
February 23rd, 2013
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Invisible Paris
based in
Paris

The Invisible Dossiers: A Room with a View

What links a vintage postcard, a forgotten novel and a lost film? The answer - a small room in a Paris left-bank hotel.

Since I began posting on Invisible Paris it has always been clear to ...

posted on
February 17th, 2013
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Invisible Paris
based in
Paris

The Densest Building in Paris

In what is already Europe's most crowded capital city, it is perhaps an unenviable honour to be labelled the densest building in Paris. Though undoubtedly hefty and imposing, the building that clai ...