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CAA office

Main conference room

Its former home—masterminded by Michael Ovitz—embodied CAA’s rise to prominence. But its new headquarters asserts its superpower status. Here, a first look inside “the Death Star.”

Paris, France

Art need not be a luxury, but luxury can be an art – and few cities accentuate the concept of gracious living and refinement better than Paris. The famous capital of France and fashion, is located in the north of its country on the banks of the River Seine.

Celts and Romans founded Paris; French kings and Emperors expanded and embellished the city; the noted urban designer Baron Haussman transformed its layout and look; and recent republican Presidents have kept it at the leading edge of urbanity with the building of their grands projets. Underpinning the city’s continuing success is its economic base as a centre of government and finance.

Character and creativity are the keynotes of Paris. Legions of great writers, artists and designers have been, and continue to be, inspired by this pioneering city of haute couture and haute cuisine. The city is a place where the cut of a cloth or the beauty of a package is cherished and where the natives really do get animated about philosophy, politics and art.

Collections of some of the world’s greatest art adorn the galleries and museums of the city, ranging from Renaissance masterpieces in the grand and capacious Louvre, to more modern triumphs in the Quai d’Orsay, or touching sculptures in the intimate setting of the Musee Rodin.

The instantly recognizable, classical attractions of Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe and Sacré-Coeur are now supplemented by contemporary, more daring structures like the Grande Arche de La Défense, the Louvre’s Grande Pyramide, Musee d’Orsay and the ‘inside-out’ Pompidou Centre.

Paris’s fine food, whether served in grand restaurant or busy bistro, may be the best in the world: it sets the standard against which others judge themselves. The abundance of charcuteries, patisseries, fromageries and boulangeries elevate the parkland picnic into a gastronomic experience. Join the queues at the Poilâne bakery on rue du Cherche-Midi for the finest loaves in France; delve around the gourmet delights of Fauchon on the Place de la Madeleine; or sit back and relish the city’s fine dining at venerated restaurants like Jamin, Vivarois or L’Arpège.

Angeli Dell’Acqua by Zena Holloway

Zena Holloway, the underwater photographer, is an enthusiast. She enjoys being a photographer, but it is the underwater part which really gets her passions bubbling. To talk with her is like taking part in the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale; you feel that she is doing her best in a dry world but deep down she yearns to be back where a mermaid belongs – under the waves.
She first dived after taking her A-levels and even though the diving course was held in a grim flooded quarry in Petersham she became enchanted, enraptured and captivated by everything to do with being underwater. She abandoned plans to study architecture and took on the humblest job at the diving school, which included cleaning the toilets.
Diving instruction in the Cayman Islands was a step up and it was there that Zena discovered that a job existed of underwater videographer. During a year making souvenir videos of tourists, as they dived through the glamorous waters of the Carribean, Zena made over 900 dives, an average getting on for three a day.
Watching a film crew carrying a latex-tailed mermaid down to the sea shore and illuminating her with lights and reflectors inspired Zena but the route to becoming a photographer involved a full share of clapper-loading, working for a hirer of underwater cameras, and cable-bashing (lifting the train of cables that the camerman trails behind, so that they don’t get snagged as he moves).
The waters where Zena was building up her experience were exotic: Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Uruguay, Zanzibar, with teams working for the Discovery Channel, and the BBC as well as
commercials. She helped film the wreck of the Graf-Spee, sunk in the River Plate during the Second World War, and also the wreck of one of the ships of Nelson’s fleet which was complete with skeletons, musket balls, and gold trinkets like a real-life version of a wreck Walt Disney might have imagined.
A freelance underwater photographer since 1994, Zena now has a very impressive list of clients and a collection of awards. The most recent was a merit in the 19th AOP Awards, but the Royal Photographic Society, The Portugal Film Festival and the Underwater Film Festival, France, have also added to her trophy collection.

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