10.13.2017 The gift
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” (Albert Camus, in The Rebel)
10.09.2017 Murano
Murano glassware excelled as a result of its exploratory techniques, including milleflori (murrine), lattimo and glass objects with gold thread…
10.06.2017 Agate odyssey
«The patterns on agate or jasper are not in the stones themselves but within the imagination that puts them there » (Roger Caillois)
09.01.2017 Hot wheels!
With the pedal to the metal, yesterday’s set of wheels is driving at breakneck speed into a wall.
08.25.2017 Return to Kep
“The scent of jasmine and roses whisks me back to the riverbanks at Kep” (Soko Phay)
08.21.2017 The line in drawing
The drawing captures the essence of an action, even if the subject matter is immobile.
08.18.2017 Dreams of Do Son
The Eau de toilette Do Son finds its balance by associating humidity with freshness.
08.14.2017 What is artification?
“Painting and sculpture have not always been considered art.” (Nathalie Heinich)
08.04.2017 The hand of the soul
Drawing is an art of the sign that reveals the unknown.
07.24.2017 Perfume in the modern age (III)
Perfume becomes a luxury item within the reach of all.
07.21.2017 The Beautiful
It may well be that there are laws of harmony…
07.17.2017 Perfume in the modern age (II)
The juice was designed to last on the skin as well as for years.
07.10.2017 Perfume in the modern age (I)
It is the invention of synthetics that slowly triggered the Modern perfume, by the end of the 19th century.
07.07.2017 The morality of perfume
In France, in the XIXth century, perfume continued to be tarred by the centuries-old idea of indolence and idleness, the mother of all vices.
06.19.2017 Goethe in full colour
The universal poet with an immeasurable knowledge bank devoted twenty years to the study of colours.
06.05.2017 Bachelard: the candle and the hourglass
“Time is a reality curled up in the instant, and suspended between two voids.” (Gaston Bachelard, The Intuition of the Instant)
05.29.2017 The Clock
“Impassive clock! Terrifying, sinister god,”
05.22.2017 Josef Albers’ colours
German-born Josef Albers, professeur at the Bauhaus, a visual arts educator and the author of a theory of colours, had a great impact on post war contemporary American art.
05.19.2017 The Age
The Age is a poem from Ossip Emilievitch Mandelstam (1891-1938), a Rusian poet and essayist, who was born in Warsaw and died at Vladivostok, in a Goulag camp.
05.15.2017 The time of Albert Einstein
To consider that the duration of time between two events can vary depending on how fast one is moving goes against logic.
05.12.2017 Marey’s motionless progress
By using a machine instead of biology to sequence time via images, Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) kick-started a change that would herald the future.
05.08.2017 Memory of hourglasses
The hourglass is a mysterious, ingenious and crucial invention which perfection prevents any advancement.
05.01.2017 Gardens of Bomarzo
Here the paths dotted with thirty monstrous sculptures seem to be reminiscent of a journey into the mysteries of antiquity…
04.17.2017 The English garden
The English garden presents a bucolic landscape that carries the gaze forwards and outwards, takes the walker by surprise and has the mind dreaming…
04.14.2017 Ryōan-ji
“There is another world but it is in this one” (Paul Eluard)
04.10.2017 A true garden
The only word in this tale that is clear, certain and luminous is garden, which also names it.
04.03.2017 The gardens of Piet Oudolf
Piet Oudolf’s long and creative career expanded the conceptual framework of the New Perennial Mouvement to ecological considerations and an arrangement of plants that was more natural and adapted to the local biotope.