It is probably every girl's fantasy to visit a small dessert shop, buy some cute utensils, place flowers on the table, and the light and shadow of the petals on a cake. ——Yes, the next sentence should be a turning point, the main character appears.

Shou runs a small dessert shop, buying some cute utensils, placing flowers on the table, and the light and shadow of the petals flowing on a piece of cake. This is probably the fantasy of every girl.

- Yes, the next sentence should be a turning point, the main character appears. But I don't want to be so cliche. There are so many dessert shops, not a few of which are beautiful. flowers are breath, cream is emotion, and art is daily life. A dessert shop manager, or let us say, a very good dessert shop manager, she opens up the possibility of life to more beautiful things. I think this is amazing.

After all, a good fantasy has no end. A pearl at the heart of a girl, forever sensual.

"Who doesn't like Paris?"

I met Iko for the first time. She has thin short hair, a plain white shirt, brown boy pants, overlapping gold earrings, and even the cuffs are dripping a little carelessly. Like the amazing weekly girl on Wutong Road, you can't help but guess where she has been, why the temperaments of Kyoto, Paris and Suzhou and Hangzhou appear in her body, and she is going on a purposeless wandering.

And once she spoke, her unexpected innocence was like a spoonful of cake being put into her lips. I suddenly remembered that I saw her writing on Weibo, "Oh, autumn desserts." This "we" is so cute, with chestnut puree, Baileys, and Dirty Coffee, like a cartoon child, whom she sincerely named.

This kind of approachable temperament is very contagious. During the interview, we sat on a seat facing the street and drank coffee. We put away the manuscript several times and chatted pointlessly. gives a gentle high-five at the end of every happy word.

The spoon gently scooped out a piece of cake, and we talked about desserts. iko will start making cakes, which is quite a coincidence. a Browning lit up everyone's hearts. Two months later she opened a studio and gradually became famous.

It is not easy to develop a hobby into a career. On the one hand, has a wild passion for sweets, and on the other hand, it is an arduous trip to France to study baking courses, and finally this "Porte de Paris" was born. Her taste in eating sweets in life is a little more precise.

Porte de Paris is now a benchmark dessert shop in Hangzhou. In recent years, the "French style" of is no longer new. When anyone mentions it, they will say "freedom, laziness, and elegance." Most of them are cookie-cutter shells that can be copied. Everyone took their seats reservedly, played with filters to create a circle of friends, and dispersed after gathering.

But this is different. iko doesn’t like to follow the trend of . In addition to the daily recommended items, limited items will be changed every season, and the drink list will also be adjusted every two months. In spring and summer, there are bright yellow and grass green, and the berries are sweet. In autumn, there are fig tarts, persimmon mousse, sesame-wine dacquoise, and . You never know what "uniquely beautiful" cute desserts will appear on the menu, leaving only one season.

"live in the French way", here, an afternoon tea satisfies my sweet cravings and softens with cream. Don't be a fashionista anymore with , just hold the handle of the coffee cup and and indulge in a daze, curling up relaxedly into the city's afternoon light.

—“Then why is it called the Porte de Paris? Do you like Paris?”

— “Who doesn’t like Paris?” , she held her chin and looked at me.

Soft cream, very much like her. As soon as the sweet breath of being baked is blown, it becomes lingering. Maybe she didn’t pick the cake, but the cake picked her.

As they were slowly stirred, they thought, Oh, it's her.

"It seems like falling in love, but also like making friends"

The decoration of the Porte de Paris is very interesting. has an all-glass appearance. When you walk outside, you will see the acrylic blue reflected in the sky at a glance. Looking out from inside , you can see the stretches of Zhijiang Road . Until six o'clock, you can still see a gentle sunset through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

The second floor was raised, and the light came in, making it very bright. iko made a large installation surface on it, with black geometric prints, and those floating geometric balls in the air, vibrating slightly in the airflow. 嚯, a delicate balancing act.

A screen was erected at the entrance, and the rattan was wrapped with a customized Danish brand KVADRAT fabric. , the world's luxury-grade fabric, exudes a slight luster. "It's so expensive," Iko said seriously, "but the Qiantang River is a little bit fierce, just block it." Well, is not a free-spirited character, so you know the wonderful magic between ingredients.

There is a short bookcase deep in the store. It is an old-school furniture style that is no longer in print. She couldn't buy one, so a good friend made one for her, and they even added copper pipes around the edges, which was very special. There are many rare art books and magazines on the market, all of which are her favorites. There are several books including Holiday and Apartmento.

The part of the painting stands out so much that you can bump into a painting wherever you go. has a painting of Ladies’ Afternoon Tea painted by Long Di, which depicts the scene inside the Porte de Paris. girlfriends talk lively in colorful lines.

iko I have liked Long Di for a long time. I first read Sanlian Weekly, then went to a buyer’s store to see the actual product, and finally asked the editor-in-chief of timeout to hire her. Long Di made many samples for her during the process. She liked this one the most and hung it in the store.

At that time, there was also Hu Qindi’s #circulating bubble exhibition #, bubble fly in the circle. uses the comprehensive use of woodblock, copper plate, cyanotype and other techniques to point to a parallel universe of and that once overlapped.

Green Duck also held an exhibition here, "Slightly Realistic Everyday Life". This is one of the paintings that iko bought from her. It is very inspiring.

Sometimes when talking about aesthetics, it is better to talk about a person’s romantic nature. Art has never been judged based on hard work. Iko’s purchase is casual and very relaxed, but it hides the various potentials of visual art. "I knew at first sight that this thing would not work here." is not limited to any type, it just understands its own route. People with the same attributes as will come here and sigh for the beauty together.

Friends around her said she was 100% animalistic, so she spread her hands. "It's like falling in love, but also like making friends." My intuition was far ahead, and I seemed to see the highlight of her senses.

"I don't have a lifestyle, only life."

iko's 24-hour daily life is more boring than we think. Sleep for eight hours and get up at nine o'clock. Go to the gym near the store, do aerobics, and lift weights. Then return to the store to complete some online and offline docking and exhibition arrangements. In the afternoon, I drink three to five cups of coffee, read a book, and try desserts. goes dancing half the night, and the other half, sometimes drinking, sometimes sitting on the sofa watching movies.

is a bit soft and comfortable, not too surprising and not exquisite enough. can hear her dividing the night of the week, coffee, books, desserts, wine, dancing, movies... always feels that the moon on her windowsill seems brighter.

"I have no lifestyle, only life." The romance of creative people reaches the same goal by different paths. The cake must be supported by good utensils, the paintings must be with flowers, the space must be smashed into petals by beauty, and emotions and inspiration must grow inside. Porte de Paris is her afternoon, art is her night, and she is just innocently at the life bar, ordering another glass for "fun".

So I drank some delicious tea while traveling and came back to exchange it. A friend who came to visit asked me to make a new series of bubble cakes to echo her development. The seasons have changed, the holidays are approaching, new products have appeared, and the positions of furniture have also been moved accordingly. Guests who have been coming for a long time will find that it is quietly changing every time they come. It’s no secret that loves to play around.Be free and stay fresh, which is the only rule of Paris Porte.

Since the opening of the store, Porte de Paris has hosted many events and has long since gone beyond the role of a dessert shop. opens the "Secret Language" visual exhibition in the imagination of "lunar eclipse", displays flowers together with Shanghai's fashionable flower shop "Lumos", talks about "JNBY HOME" home furnishings, and the parent-child project of handmade books, "swing HangZhou" The midnight swing... contains so many intense scenes in one space, and it can pull you in at any time and bring you endless happiness.

Green Duck, a young artist who held an exhibition here, wrote this sentence in her exhibition: "The youth of pleasure is almost over, and it is not a bad thing to quickly reach the age of eighty and die soon. Understand, I am just ruined by such scummy words as "romantic". "

iko looked at the painting of the green duck and said, "This little girl is really great." At this time, the light of the setting sun entered uninvited from the long window, like a small group of romantic words, and fell on her face.

Quick Questions and Answers

Q & A

Q: Many girls have small dreams of opening a dessert shop, flower shop or B&B . What kind of mental preparation do you need to make before turning your small dreams into real life?

A: With , I think you have to ask yourself first, do you want to have fun doing it, or is it just a business? Opening a store in is just a choice and a start, not your purpose.

Q: Are there times when you are particularly anxious at work?

A: This must happen, but I don’t want to say it (laughs).

Q: What about a specific thing?

A: Probably for a while, at the same time, the chef resigned, and the dessert and barista had to leave. This pressure is huge.

We work both online and offline. Content presentation, employee management, and customer experience must all be controlled. You also need to care about your emotions, the company of your family and your children. This time division... you don't know how to focus on the right place. This makes it impossible to do things wholeheartedly. This is where the anxiety comes from.

I think everyone is like this. Balancing personal space, work and family is the most difficult thing.

Q: What books have you recommended recently for ?

A: I have read "Volcano Hotel", which is a Japanese novel. The dreams in the book are very fantastic, a bit like Kawakami Hiromi. I am generally willing to read about any interesting field that I have not learned about. A purely emotional romance novel, or a detective part, would be very boring.

Q: ’s favorite artist recently?.

A: I will like the ones that highlight the inspiration of . may be favored by artists who make ceramics or glassware recently. It’s the feeling of handwork and the work of working with materials. By the way, I have a cup that I like very much, let me show it to you.

Q: Tell me a favorite lipstick.

A: usually uses a lot of walk of shame, very daily bean paste. But I have one that I love very much. Ludan’s makeup is surprisingly good.

Q:Your activities are all interesting without exception. How did you do it?

A: Probably before every activity, I will imagine it. Imagine what you expect to see, feel, and play with when invited, and then set up the activity in reverse. See if there are elements that capture the emotions of those attending that day. has to have fun even in business. In addition to the recording part, it has to leave some sincere traces.

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Conclusion

If you play with the name "Porte de Paris" in the palm of your hand, the metaphor of life will unravel. Paris is always somewhere else, but the door is right in front of you. Why not slide into this entrance like the little man in the store logo, get a little leisure, and put it on your sleeve. Then believe -

Hey, tomorrow will be a more interesting and complex roaming.