Take the Paris Trip Featured on Art & The City
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The Art of Paris
This stay has been designed for a first-time visit to the City of Light.
In the Paris episode of Art & The City, David Keeps sets out to explore Paris not as a museum city, but as a place where artistic expression is woven into everyday life. Fashion, food, history, and bohemian ritual sit side by side here in a way that doesn't happen anywhere else. This package is built around the same highlights, with the difference that you can take your time with each of them. Trips are fully customizable, giving you space to go deeper rather than just tick things off.
Discover Paris's Haute Couture Culture
Paris's fashion houses are not boutiques. They are workshops where clothing is treated as craft, and where the line between design and art has never been particularly clear. Visitors can explore this world through atelier tours, museum collections dedicated to fashion history, and neighbourhoods where couture culture still shapes daily life.
Experience the Craft of Parisian Pastry
In the episode, David frames the Parisian macaron not as a souvenir but as a piece of design, precise in its construction and deliberate in every detail. Patisseries across the city operate with the same logic, where presentation and technique are inseparable. A morning spent moving through some of the city's most respected pastry shops offers a different way into its creative culture.
Explore the Impressionist Legacy
David visits the Musée d'Orsay to see Monet's work up close, and the collection gives good reason to linger. The museum holds one of the most significant Impressionist holdings in the world, and the city's streets, riverbanks, and parks appear again and again in the canvases inside. It's a rare chance to stand in the places that inspired the paintings. Visitors who want to go deeper into Monet's work should also make time for the Musée de l'Orangerie, a short walk away in the Tuileries Garden, where his Water Lilies series fills two purpose-built oval rooms.
The Musée d'Orsay occupies a former railway station on the Seine, its 19th-century facade concealing one of the world's great Impressionist collections.
Find the Hidden Studios and Independent Galleries
The studio David visits in the episode isn't something you can book, but creating a similar experience is achievable, as Paris has a handful of open studio events throughout the year. Portes Ouvertes in Belleville and Montmartre are the most established, where working artists open their spaces to the public over a weekend. Outside of those, the 11th and 20th arrondissements have concentrations of independent galleries and artist-run spaces that operate quietly alongside the major institutions. A walk through either neighbourhood with no particular agenda tends to turn something up.
Explore Le Marais
David also spends time in Le Marais, one of the city's most layered neighbourhoods. It has been the centre of Parisian Jewish life for centuries, and that history is still present along Rue des Rosiers, in its synagogues, and in the delis and bakeries that have been there for generations. The neighbourhood has also become one of the best places in Paris to find contemporary art, with independent galleries tucked into the same streets as centuries-old architecture. Take a full afternoon to explore with no fixed plans.
Le Marais runs deep. Centuries-old architecture, contemporary galleries, and neighbourhood cafes sit within a few streets of each other
Follow the Bohemian Trail
The absinthe ritual David participates in connects directly back to the cafés and artistic circles that defined Montmartre and Saint-Germain in an earlier era. Poets, painters, and writers gathered in these spaces, and the atmosphere they created didn't entirely disappear when they left. Several bars and brasseries in the city still carry that history, and a quiet evening in the right one does a lot to bring it into focus.
Stay at Hotel Bel-Ami
Hotel Bel-Ami sits in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a neighbourhood that has been synonymous with Parisian intellectual and artistic life for decades. The hotel itself is calm and considered, a good base for a trip that moves between galleries, ateliers, and the kind of side streets that don't appear in guidebooks.
Plan Your Own Paris Adventure
This package is inspired by the highlights of David's Art & The City episode and fully customizable to fit your interests and schedule. Click the offer below and start building your Paris trip.
The Art of Paris
This stay has been designed for a first-time visit to the City of Light.
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