Laura Neilson

Laura Neilson

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    La Pâtisserie des Rêves

    Artful confections at a Parisian gallery-style bakery

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    Read — Food + Drink

    In a city where bakeries are more plentiful than actual berets, pastry maestro Philippe Conticini’s La Pâtisserie des Rêves—a futuristic gallery-like shop in Paris where sweet-toothed visitors ogle spectacular pastries and gâteaux&#8212makes a fresh addition. Conticini opened his pâtisserie in September 2009 after closing his previous pastry-focused enterprise, Exceptions Gourmandes, a year earlier. The author of several cookbooks, including “Sensations Nutella,” a book devoted entirely …

    The Selby is in Your Place

    An interview with the Internet's Peeping Todd

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    If a picture tells a thousand words, then consider Todd Selby a visual raconteur. Since the summer of 2008, the Orange County, CA-born, NYC-based photographer has shown an expanding and eclectic cast of creative characters—artists, musicians, writers, designers and the like—in their private homes on his website The Selby, an online Architectural Digest for the hipster set. With a penchant for exploring real-life spaces and …