04.11.2016 Calvino’s senses
Writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985) planned to write five tales, each dedicated to one of the senses.
04.07.2016 San Francisco
San Francisco’s aura sparkles in the global collective unconscious as a city of possibilities…
03.14.2016 The magic of the moment
This particular experience – the magic of the moment – is based on our sensations: letting the work of the five senses gradually spread their wings.
03.10.2016 “Turn me on”
Kinetic art reached its peak in 1965 when MoMA organised an exhibition that would go down in history: « The responsive eye ». When announced a year earlier in the press, an American journalist coined the phrase Op Art for the first time – a term that would achieve posterity.
01.14.2016 diptyque questionnaire: Olympia Le-Tan
Taking the opportunity of her collaboration with diptyque, fashion designer Olympia Le-Tan answers some questions from the diptyque questionnaire.
01.04.2016 Inside a woman’s bag…
Since the early days of photography, snaps have captured the world like some kind of visual encyclopaedia.
12.17.2015 Tree corpus: Valérie Jouve
Marta Gili, Director of the Jeu de Paume and art critic, shares with us some texts and an interview, from the exhibition “Corps en résistance” catalog on the place of trees in the work of Valérie Jouve.
12.07.2015 Miami
Artistic ultra-intermixing, Miami’s creative antennas react to the planetary quivering and murmurs like a stock-exchange.
12.03.2015 diptyque questionnaire: Julien Colombier
Julien Colombier has decorated the windows of the boutique 34 boulevard Saint-Germain with the same patterns that he has drawn for the cases of the three candles special edition of this winter.
11.30.2015 Ragnar Kjartansson
This agitator of art provokes events rather than the public.
11.26.2015 The trees of Atget
It’s at Saint-Cloud in 1921 that photographer Eugène Atget undertook a series named “Coins du Parc” (Corners of Park) which is about some trees neglected by the gardeners.
11.09.2015 Shanghai
Shanghai was China’s first modern cosmopolitan city, its cultural capital and financial heart of Asia but tormented.
10.26.2015 Benzoin from Laos
The Givaudan Foundation has committed itself to the Phongsaly regions of Laos in cultivating benzoin together with the rural communities.
10.22.2015 Nadia Candet’s Private Choice
Personal initiative integrated into the FIAC official program, Private Choice is an ephemeral collection whose selection is due to the experience of Nadia Candet, curator in contemporary art.
10.15.2015 What is a painting?
One day in 1913 Mr. Marcel Duchamp, a painter, chose to display everyday objects industrially produced as works of art – nothing was ever to be quite the same again.
10.05.2015 Table of waters
Over the course of its history perfume has been classified and when it became a volatile liquid based on alcohol concentrations a nomenclature was slowly settled.
09.24.2015 diptyque questionnaire : Olivier Pescheux
Olivier Pescheux is a perfume writer. A traveller with the heart and soul of a Parisian, his special talent is in the research of the right balance of a fragrance.
09.17.2015 Glass beads
Glass craftsman Vincent Breed has created two candle holders for the collection 34.
09.14.2015 diptyque questionnaire: Fabrice Pellegrin
09.03.2015 diptyque questionnaire: Olivia Giacobetti
Olivia Giacobetti is a French perfumer. Her love of scents first goes to the raw materials, to the reality of our world rather than the abstraction of fashions.
08.24.2015 Scents hunter
For once, Roman Kaiser went on foot to the store at 34 boulevard Saint Germain one day in 2008. It must be said that he often goes to work in a balloon, for example.
08.17.2015 Waltersperger
Waltersperger is the last semi-automatic French glass and crystal maker whose work requires highly skilled manual intervention.
07.02.2015 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Since 2012, diptyque has set up an ephemeral scenography for its opening ceremony. This year, this setting of ambiance which will be arranged in the jardin Campra for the “A Midsummer Night’s Dream » new premiere will be kept in place throughout the Festival.
06.29.2015 diptyque at the festival of Aix-en-Provence
diptyque has been an official partner of the Aix-en-Provence International Festival of Lyric Art since 2011…
06.25.2015 Pierre Gagnaire : The Citrus Fruits
Elected “the greatest starred chef in the world” by his pairs in 2015, Master French Chef Pierre Gagnaire writes on memento about the citrus fruits …
06.18.2015 American icons: Richard Diebenkorn
Who would recognize the city of Berkeley in this painting by Richard Diebenkorn, which dates back to 1955?
06.11.2015 ¡Madrid!
The first diptyque boutique in Spain will open its doors this month in Madrid…