Historic salons were places for people to gather and discuss philosophy, art, and politics. We’d like to see that again, as well as discussions about architecture, literature, and theatre. We will go even further to discuss, food, drink, film, television, music, sculpture, astronomy, religion, nature, and really…just about anything that can move the mind or spirit.

“…salons always filled some sort of institutional vacuum at the intersection between public and private life left by the decline of certain cultural, social, or civic institutions and the rise of others that had not yet taken root. Salons did not replace things that had disappeared but invented some of the attributes and functions of things yet to be born. In that sense, they were less transitional institutions than expressions of an era of transitions.”

~Steven Kale, French Salons