04.11.2016 Calvino’s senses
Writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985) planned to write five tales, each dedicated to one of the senses.
Writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985) planned to write five tales, each dedicated to one of the senses.
San Francisco’s aura sparkles in the global collective unconscious as a city of possibilities…
This particular experience – the magic of the moment – is based on our sensations: letting the work of the five senses gradually spread their wings.
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.
Taking the opportunity of her collaboration with diptyque, fashion designer Olympia Le-Tan answers some questions from the diptyque questionnaire.
Since the early days of photography, snaps have captured the world like some kind of visual encyclopaedia.
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.
Artistic ultra-intermixing, Miami’s creative antennas react to the planetary quivering and murmurs like a stock-exchange.
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.
This agitator of art provokes events rather than the public.
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.
Shanghai was China’s first modern cosmopolitan city, its cultural capital and financial heart of Asia but tormented.
The Givaudan Foundation has committed itself to the Phongsaly regions of Laos in cultivating benzoin together with the rural communities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Glass craftsman Vincent Breed has created two candle holders for the collection 34.
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.
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.
Waltersperger is the last semi-automatic French glass and crystal maker whose work requires highly skilled manual intervention.
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.
diptyque has been an official partner of the Aix-en-Provence International Festival of Lyric Art since 2011…
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 …
Who would recognize the city of Berkeley in this painting by Richard Diebenkorn, which dates back to 1955?
The first diptyque boutique in Spain will open its doors this month in Madrid…