Jean Toutitou's Parisian Apartment | Paris, (FR) | By Lee Fleming

The Parisian abode of A.P.C's founder Jean Toutitou was recently featured on WSJ Magazine (photography by Matthieu Salvaing) and it's a beautiful space, one we're extremely envious of. Located within the 7th arrondissement, close to the border of the 6th, the Toutitou's family apartment is as you'd expect by A.P.C's founder along with his wife Judith who is A.P.C.’s artistic director and his daughters Lily and Haydée. The space blends nordic design with Jean's Tunisian upbringing, leaning more towards a wood-lined Scandinavian cabin within the Beaux-Arts architecture setting of this neighbourly Parisian apartment.

Designed by architect Laurent Deroo who has worked with Touitou for the past 15 years on store design, the interior is dominated by blond elm panelling alongside eyecatching features such as framed 1966 poster for Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour with the Velvet Underground and a woven wall hanging made by La Liste Tunisienne, a homeware line by Jean’s younger sister in Tunis.

To read more check out the full feature check on WSJ Magazine and/or visit the A.P.C website.

Window Seat Please Magazine | Karl Hab | Paris (FRA) | By Lee Fleming

I recently came across Paris-based photographer Karl Hab's Tumblr and was pleased to find his recent self-published magazine "Window Seat Please" is now available. The 44-page magazine is a visual exploration of a decade of travelling, documenting Hab's various nomadic journeys to bustling metropolises such as Hong Kong, Tokyo, London and Los Angeles. Alongside his travel photography Hab is also the house photographer for Parisian store Colette as well as contributing to several magazines including Sneeze Magazine, Obscura Magazine and Hypebeast Magazine.

Purchase a copy of the limited "Window Seat Please" magazine by visiting Karl Hab's website or one of its carefully chosen stockists which includes Colette and Piils Paris.

All You Can Eat Press | Brooklyn, New York (USA) | By Lee Fleming

All You Can Eat Press is a Brooklyn-based independent publishing company that champions everyday good for everyday people. Created and published by Yuki Matsuo, the All You Can Eat maps are designed neither to be a gourmet guide or a critical survey but a honest celebration of the best everyday eats in New York.

Having started with the Doughnut map, Yuki has grown the All You Can Eat series to include burgers, ramen, diner, oysters and croissants in Paris. Beautifully illustrated, each fold-out map is easily digestible and features hard-to-find local food knowledge alongside collaborations with The New York Pizza Project, Julie Qiu of In A Half Shell and Yuriko Yamamoto, a pâtissière and European pastry researcher. The attention to detail with each All You Can Eat map is commendable, printed in New York the white, in coated maps are a manageable size while on the move (7.5" x 3.5" folded; 15" x 21" open). Protected in a wax paper food bag with a rubber stamp sticker seal, the Burger map even includes a wet wipe for greasy fingers.

Highly recommended when visiting New York whether you're a foodie or not, we're just jealous of the painstaking research Yuki had to endure in trialling all the recommendations on the map, especially the doughnuts!

To find out more visit the All You Can Eat Press website.

PARIS 48°49N 2°29E | Ami Sioux | Paris (FRA) | By Lee Fleming

The °Books is a series of exploration photography by Paris-based photographer and singer Ami Sioux. Born in East Berlin in 2003 where Ami has been living for three years, The °Books was an idea brought about by Ami's own experiences of being guided by hand drawn maps, given to her as directions to somewhere as East Berlin was still bring rebuilt.

Starting with REYKJAVIK 64°08N 21°54W, PARIS 48°50N 2°23E is the second in the series where Ami asks fifty city inhabitants to hand draw a map to a place that's significant or important to them personally, for any reason. Ami uses the hand drawn maps to navigate to each location and takes a photograph to represent each location. Designed by Ahohen & Lamberg and published by OFR, the cartography contributors to PARIS 48°50N 2°23E can seen here. Each °Book aims to portray a city as interpreted by those who live and work there daily. Not to be mistaken as a guide, but rather, a unique way of discovering different parts of the city.

To read more about the ° Book series visit Ami's website.

Viction:ary | CITIx60 Art Print Project | Hong Kong (CHN) | By Lee Fleming

Recently released, the CITIx60 Art Print Project is an extension of CITIx60 City Guides, a collaboration created by Hong Kong-based Viction:ary and a handful of acclaimed designers that also includes selected city maps. Founded in 2001 by Victor Cheung, Viction:ary is the publishing arm of design house Viction Workshop Ltd. who specialise in visual arts and design publishing from East and West.

Alongside the publication, their inspirational city guide series highlights 60 venues recommended by a local creative in each location. To complement this, Viction:ary's CITIx60 Art Print Project consists of beautifully illustrated maps of exaggerated details which re-examine the distinctive landscapes of Tokyo, Paris and Berlin. The limited edition maps are produced as high quality art prints, 60 respectively at A1 and A2 formats.

The adventurous illustrations by New Zealand and Japan-based Masako Kubo (Tokyo map), Scottish illustrator and designer Allan Deas (Paris map) and Helsinki-based Vesa Sammalisto (Berlin map) were especially commissioned for this project and can be viewed on the Viction:ary website.

Via Another Something.