Desillusion Magazine Tome III

The avant-garde French skate and surf publication's hardcover offering spans the streets, beaches and galleries

Though skateboarding and surfing have firm roots in Southern California, the global popularity of skateboarding and surfing continues to desaturate the geographic concentration of each sport’s publishing and design centers. In recent years, this has given way to a greater diversity in the way each sport and the culture around it is portrayed. On the shores of the Atlantic in France’s surf mecca of Hossegor, …

DIY Boards at Biarritz’s Blank Surf Shack

Shape your own stick in the thriving French seaside town

by Jorge Grimberg Known by many surfers as the “French California,” Biarritz is just a 20 minute drive from Spain along France’s Basque coast. The city boasts truly world-class surfing, is home to the European headquarters of majorsurf labels including Quicksilver and Billabong, and plays host to the Quiksilver/Roxy Jam surf tournament each yearso it’s not surprising that surfers flock there in search of the …