PARÍS 21st century furniture and liturgical fashion Rebuilding the cathedral in just five years hasn’t been easy. In November 2024, its eight bells, two of which had been dam-aged by the heat of the flames, began ringing again. The cathe-dral’s 8,000-pipe organ, which wasn’t affected by the fire, was cleaned and restored and the new spire with a rooster on its tip was installed a month before the opening ceremony. The liturgical furniture is also new: baptistery, altar and pulpit in bronze and stone by the artist Guillaume Bardet. But what has attracted the most attention are the 1,500 solid oak and brass chairs designed by Ionna Vautrin and produced by Bosc, an artisan firm more than 60 years old. “It’s an unas-suming, timeless chair that leaves the cathedral’s liturgical furniture and architecture to take the spotlight” they say. The priests’ vestments, featuring more colourful robes, have been designed by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, who has worked as creative director for Benetton and collaborated with Andy Warhol. A wealth of 21st century details for a church that up until the fire, welcomed over 12 million visitors a year, more than other iconic Paris monuments like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. It’s now expected to exceed that figure by three mil-lion, not only because of curiosity about the restoration work, but also because of its historic legacy, which no fire could ever take away. As Victor Hugo says in his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) centred on the character of Quasimodo: “Time is the architect, the nation the builder”. PARÍS Parte del clero con las nuevas túnicas diseñadas por Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. // Some of the clergy with the new vestments designed by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. ©Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Las nuevas sillas de Bosc. // The new Bosc chairs. © Ludovic Marin//AFP via Getty Images PARÍS Vuelos // Flights: París es la ciudad del amor, pero también de la cultura. Conocerla aún más es posible gracias a los tres vuelos a la semana que programa Air Europa con Madrid. // Paris is the city of love, but also of culture. You can get to know it even better thanks to the three flights a week scheduled by Air Europa with Madrid. www.aireuropa.com