Favorite Diversion: Cooking lessons may be taken at the celebrated Cordon Bleu School, 129 rue du Faubourg St-Honore.
For your children Paris offers lots of attractions. Toy sailboats are a favorite diversion in the fountain basins of the Tuileries and the Luxem¬bourg Gardens; marionette shows may be found in the Luxembourg Gar¬dens and the park-like east portion of the Champs-Elysees; and two fa¬mous circuses are Cirque Medrano and the Cirque d'Hiver.
Active Façades : A New Medium?
Building façades and walls are changing before our eyes, reacting with apparent intelligence to the news, the weather-even our physical proximity to the structures.
Some announce the activities they contain or the building's use and occupancy ("open to the public," for example, or "home team plays tonight"), in ways both transcendent and trite.
Others play games literally with the outside world, tricking the eyes of passersby or treating invited parties to both dialogue and diversion.See Also Favorite Subject:Cape Guardafui, known as Ras Asir in Arabic, was formerly called the Cape of Spices. The origin of the name Guardafui is uncertain. The seas around the promontory are sometimes haz¬ardous because of fogs.
GUARDI, gwar'de, Francesco (1712-1793), Ital¬ian painter. His favorite subject was the city of Venice, either in exact views or in imaginary visions, and he is rivaled only by Canaletto in this field.
His paintings, which have a pro¬found serenity, show the countryside around Fon-tainebleau, the Auvergne, and the Nivernaise. His favorite subject was the banks of the Allier at dusk and in 1861 his Edge of a Wood Beside the Allier attracted considerable attention in ftiris. His landscapes are skillfully drawn and mthentically colored, many of them with a pre-iuminantly silvery cast. Harpignies died at St.-Prive, Yonne, on Aug. 29, 1916.
On The Other Hand See A Favorite Motif:Once the box is constructed, you can decide on the most appropriate form of decoration. First, choose a background color and then perhaps add a motif, such as your child's favorite cartoon character, or use a stencilled design or even cut-outs from magazines or comics pasted down and then varnished to protect them.
The chief glory of Scythian art is its splendid animal style, combining vigorous repre¬sentation with decorative stylization. A favorite motif was the stag, probably revered as the bearer of souls to the underworld, and gold stags frequently decorated the shields of warriors. Great chieftains were buried with amulets, torques, and rings, many with colored inlay, and their costume was ornamented with gold plaques sewn to the material.
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