After falling in love with Paris’s art, architecture and style, David Coggins and his family have been heading there for their winter holidays since the mid-1990s. The Minneapolis-based artist and writer’s bright watercolour vignettes of city life have now been collected into an expanded edition of the illustrated memoir he first published in 2015. “Paris is special in winter because there are fewer tourists and the city is more intimate, more itself,” he says. “Dinners are elaborate. And Parisian fashion is at its height – people wear beautiful layered clothes.” In addition to his wife, Wendy, and their children David and Sarah, Coggins enjoys painting “the witty, romantic life of Parisians. A waiter in a long white apron having a smoke break, a dog sporting a Chanel sweater, a woman wearing an umbrella hat.”
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