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.
08.13.2015 Venice
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…
08.03.2015 Flower songs
“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.
07.30.2015 Simon Hantaï
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.
07.27.2015 Lavender
Who knows if in billions of years, long after the bustling of mankind has quietened, the whole universe will not smell lavender?
07.23.2015 John Cage
4’33’’ is a three-movement musical composition by John Cage without a note or even a sound…
07.20.2015 Geranium
In a pot is a geranium…
07.13.2015 Winnie Denker & the sentinel of Paris
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.
07.09.2015 Way of flowers
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…
06.22.2015 perfumed haiku
Early this summer as a tribute to this literary art, diptyque has accompanied its Eaux Parfumées with a free haiku…
06.15.2015 This is not a smiley
Neither a smiley nor any emotion, it’s a poem…
06.08.2015 Gilles Deleuze
“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)
06.04.2015 Eau de Cologne
For centuries its unique formula has been kept highly confidential, strongly coveted and extensively imitated…
06.01.2015 Yves and the theater
Before he attempted the diptyque adventure, Yves Coueslant had been living an extraordinary life with exciting artists for twelve years across Europe…
05.18.2015 Fly me to the 34
One day in the nineties, in the boutique of the 34 boulevard Saint Germain…
05.14.2015 Eadweard Muybridge
He may have been the first to photograph the vast and the wild – his photographs of Yosemite Park are legendary.
04.30.2015 Childhood Memories
The diptyque perfume Florabellio has its scented roots from the memories of Christiane Montadre-Gautrot’s childhood…
04.20.2015 The Villa Noailles
This stylish house was probably the first building of modern architecture in France, and still remains one of the greatest.
04.16.2015 The very first candles
It was only after two years of existence that diptyque created its first perfumed candles in 1963.
04.13.2015 Karl Blossfeldt
Elodie Morel, Sales Director for photographs at Christie’s, reflects on Karl Blossfeldt work…
04.02.2015 Pollock’s toy theaters
No wonder the diptyque founders collected Pollock’s theaters and were probably the only ones to sell them in Paris…
03.26.2015 Scents designer
It was between 1963 and 1964 that the diptyque aromatic saga came to life…
03.19.2015 Maubert back in the days
In 1961, the neighbourhood of Maubert – Mutualité where diptyque opens its boutique was miles away from the right next door quartier Saint-Germain.
03.16.2015 The hourglass in Death in Venice
“It seems that the sand is waiting for the very last moment to seep into the globe underneath…”
02.12.2015 Golf, Cheese and Chess Society
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.
02.09.2015 Le Rose du Bleu
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).
