Our creative director Peter has been in Paris for the past week, working on a couple photoshoots and interviews for Corduroy. But he’s also found some time to visit one of our favorite spots in the city, the Palais de Tokyo — a former 1930s-era art deco palace turned contemporary art museum. The building reopened in 2001 after an overhaul of its interior space by French architects Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal turned it into an expansive concrete-steel-glass hub for some of the most exciting and experimental works today. The  museum is easily one of the most vibrant and creative venues in town, with a rotating collection of exhibits, installations and lectures throughout the year that project a kind of fearless audacity that challenges what “contemporary” art is all about.

We love the museum’s quarterly “PALAIS” magazine, which is handed out near the entrances and serves as part exhibition guide/catalogue and part dossier on the latest happenings in the world of art, writing and design. The museum also has a beautiful bookstore (or “librairie”) which features an extensive selection of books and magazines…including Corduroy.

The Palais de Tokyo is located in the 16th Arrondissement, right next to the Paris Museum of Modern Art. More information online at palaisdetokyo.com.