(Above: Henry Cotton's' Corso Venezia brass-heavy window)
(Above: an ad for L'espresso with violin-inspired haute couture)
(Above: Swarovsky's "Nabucco", "Tosca" and "Idomeneo" binoculars)
(Above: The head chef of Paris' Hotel Le Meurice talks about the honey that's cultivated on the roof of Paris Opéra: "We even source honey from hives kept on the roof of the Opéra and the Grand Palais -- it is the purest honey you can find because pesticides are completely banned in teh city of Paris." )