Made in Paris: Some great workshops in the city of light

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk about fun workshops in Paris that we've done recently, specifically stone carving and hat making. The guest: Lina Nordin Gee.

The details: Stonemasonry classes are with last week's guest Grégory Philippe in his atelier in the Marais. If you want to find his studio and book one of his stone-carving sessions, you can find it online here (Address: 12 Rue du Prévôt, 75004).

For the hatmaking, seek out MiniMe Land (Address: 25 R. de Turbigo, 75002 Paris)

At the end of the episode, Marie Segura from My Private Paris is in the studio discussing how best to visit Giverny and Auvers-sur-Oise, once home to Monet and Van Gogh, respectively.

In fact, this whole season of The Earful Tower is brought to you by My Private Paris, which is an award-winning travel company creating deluxe itineraries for Paris and beyond. See what they offer here and be sure to let them know that you came from The Earful Tower.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Lena Norden G.
0:01.6	Hello.
0:02.8	Oliver G.
0:03.8	Hello.
0:04.6	This is the Earful Tower podcast.
0:07.2	We're doing an episode about made in Paris, creative in Paris.
0:13.3	Workshops, ateles.
0:14.9	If you're reading my substack newsletter, you'll see that I summarize some of my favorite workshops and ways to get your hands dirty,
0:23.9	get creative in Paris.
0:25.3	We're adding a few more today from things we've done very recently, including one that we did
0:30.1	this very week.
0:32.4	So that's what this episode is going to be about.
0:33.8	But first, if I say getting really creative, Lena, who do you think about?
0:41.5	Is this a trick question? Do you think Monet? Sure. Vengo? Yes. Me too. And that's lucky because
0:48.3	this episode is brought to you by My Private Paris. At the end of the episode, Marie Segura, the co-founder
0:53.4	of the company, is going to be
0:54.8	talking about an excellent day trip, which is to Giovanni and Auversoorois, which is the former
1:02.5	homes of both Monet and Vango. You can go and visit them really easily. She'll talk about both those
1:09.0	places, how you can do it, and book a tour with them.
1:11.7	My Private Paris, they're sponsoring this whole season of the podcast.
1:15.3	More from them at the end.
1:17.0	But back to Paris.
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