« Aliquando et Insanire Iocundum Est »  — it is sometimes good to have a touch of madness.   This maxim, which adorns the façade of the Théâtre de l’Allégria in Le Plessis-Robinson, symbolizes a neo-traditionalist architecture that is taking hold in certain districts of Greater Paris. Between 2021 and 2025, Élise Helm and Édouard Fargues documented these hybrid urban landscapes, where past and present odly meet.   With 120 photographs, an afterword by Charlotte Carles, and an illustration by Aurélie Renault, the book invites readers to contemplate and reflect on the contemporary city and its imagined worlds.
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Il est parfois bon d’avoir un grain de folie |   Élise Helm, Édouard Fargues,  Charlotte Carles et Aurélie Renault.
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128 pages |140    x 230 mm | paperback | sewn softcover with flaps | 200 copies |   ISBN 978-2-9603109-4-8 | Brussels 
Languages French & English