Kitchen Clarity Adventures in Kitchen and Bath Design

This picture, featured here at the brilliant  Kitchen and Residential Design (hint, Paul doesn’t like shabby chic) led to the question, (I paraphrase) – do the French hang “Hotel New York” signs in their dining rooms and kitchens?

Since this is rather a pet subject of mine, I decided to take on the challenge, and find out what is written on the walls of Europe.  I haven’t found the elusive “Hotel Washington DC” yet – this was about as close as I came to that, and these letters are actually storage for the bar, not mere sappy decor at all:

Clearly the French are no more immune to stating the obvious in their kitchens than we are:

perhaps their quotations about food and eating are a little more on the intellectual side than our more typical “Live, laugh, eat” variety – certainly they ‘re longer:

but some of the writings I found through my extensive research quick google search reveal a much more disturbing picture

Huh? Would they write that in French, or would it seem completely inane – or crazy? And talking of crazy, a clear warning here:

I’m with this guy:

I’m still on that quest for the “Hotel Los Angeles” decal in a French home – let me know if you find one.  It looks as if this search will take me to stranger and darker corners of the internet than I ever expected.
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