08.27.2015 Tribute to Chevreul
Tribute to the great 19th century scientist, Michel-Eugène Chevreul born on 31 August 229 years ago… His name is no longer known to the general public but he remains the father of the modern candle.
Tribute to the great 19th century scientist, Michel-Eugène Chevreul born on 31 August 229 years ago… His name is no longer known to the general public but he remains the father of the modern candle.
Venice is a hypnosis. A theatrical city, a floating dream, undulating maze, blurred reflections, blaze of the day in the wave… Poetry drenched with torpor. It was a summer stop for the diptyque founders and friends…
“Mille-fleurs” means “a thousand flowers”, that is the age-old tradition of master perfumers which involves the collection of unsold flowers at the end of a season to compose a perfume.
In the early sixties, Simon Hantaï, of Hungarian origin, did one of the most innovative artistic gestures of the second half of the 20th century.
Who knows if in billions of years, long after the bustling of mankind has quietened, the whole universe will not smell lavender?
4’33’’ is a three-movement musical composition by John Cage without a note or even a sound…
In a pot is a geranium…
Photographer Winnie Denker knows the Eiffel Tower better than anyone. Writer Françoise Sagan hated this iron structure until seeing Winnie’s photographs. She then wrote the text to the photographer’s first book The Sentinel of Paris which was dedicated to the Tower.
Unlike a Western bunch of flowers where beauty is the underlying key, Ikebana’s purpose isn’t decorative but of harmony created by a rigorous balance…
Early this summer as a tribute to this literary art, diptyque has accompanied its Eaux Parfumées with a free haiku…
Neither a smiley nor any emotion, it’s a poem…
“In this abécédaire, with the letter C for Culture, Gilles Deleuze speaks of incredible letters he received from the paper folders’ club after he’d written a book about philosopher Leibniz” (Claire Parnet)
For centuries its unique formula has been kept highly confidential, strongly coveted and extensively imitated…
Before he attempted the diptyque adventure, Yves Coueslant had been living an extraordinary life with exciting artists for twelve years across Europe…
One day in the nineties, in the boutique of the 34 boulevard Saint Germain…
He may have been the first to photograph the vast and the wild – his photographs of Yosemite Park are legendary.
The diptyque perfume Florabellio has its scented roots from the memories of Christiane Montadre-Gautrot’s childhood…
This stylish house was probably the first building of modern architecture in France, and still remains one of the greatest.
It was only after two years of existence that diptyque created its first perfumed candles in 1963.
Elodie Morel, Sales Director for photographs at Christie’s, reflects on Karl Blossfeldt work…
No wonder the diptyque founders collected Pollock’s theaters and were probably the only ones to sell them in Paris…
It was between 1963 and 1964 that the diptyque aromatic saga came to life…
In 1961, the neighbourhood of Maubert – Mutualité where diptyque opens its boutique was miles away from the right next door quartier Saint-Germain.
“It seems that the sand is waiting for the very last moment to seep into the globe underneath…”
The diptyque labels were created by Desmond Knox-Leet who designed their higgledy-piggledy letters – his stay at the mansion in Bletchley Park during World War II could have had something to do with it.
Le Rose du Bleu: specialist of contemporary art at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam gives us a focus on the rose color (or pink) in the work of Yves Klein (1928 – 1962).