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04.16.2018 Paris, I love you!

4956-parcours-shopping-luxe
Crossed paths

diptyque is opening a new store at 330-332 Rue Saint Honoré, 75001 Paris

04.24.2017 Edo art forms

Carte du Yoshiwara, 1846.
Crossed paths

During an era marked by a repressive political regime, the capital Edo – future Tokyo (1868) – was a place of forbidden art that celebrated idleness and pleasure.

12.02.2016 Art Basel

Ernst Beyeler (© Kurt Wyss)
Crossed paths

Art Basel – the top venue for key movers and shakers in the world of art – has become more global by becoming more local in nature.

11.28.2016 Berlin

Avenue des Tilleuls (Unter den Linden) à Berlin (©LabEx EHNE et Lycée Colbert Paris)
Crossed paths

Berlin, a very large city, a leading metropolis, surprises people by being so serene and for the civility of its inhabitants.

10.28.2016 Dingo diva

Florence Foster Jenkins (©Getty image)
Along the way Was Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944) the inspiration behind Hergé’s Milanese songbird Bianca Castafiore? The latter made readers chuckle but Florence also made her audience fall about laughing – but not in a good way. Cinema immortalises her in the most moving way. And there’s a connection with diptyque’s past too… Florence Foster Jenkins was an eccentric diva whose passionate love of music sadly made her unaware of unability. Voice, tempo,…

04.07.2016 San Francisco

diptyque maiden lane (2)
Crossed paths

San Francisco’s aura sparkles in the global collective unconscious as a city of possibilities…

12.07.2015 Miami

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Crossed paths

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

Une
Crossed paths

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.

11.09.2015 Shanghai

Shanghaï dans les années 30'
Crossed paths

Shanghai was China’s first modern cosmopolitan city, its cultural capital and financial heart of Asia but tormented.

09.21.2015 Mrs. Castaing

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Along the way

Going against all the trends, Madeleine Castaing has been one of these women of the past century whose passion and determination overcame fortresses of conformism: borrowing to all sort of styles, her taste turned upside down the art of decoration.

08.24.2015 Scents hunter

Roman Kaiser 3
Crossed paths

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.

06.11.2015 ¡Madrid!

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Crossed paths

The first diptyque boutique in Spain will open its doors this month in Madrid…

05.18.2015 Fly me to the 34

diptyque bleeker
Along the way

One day in the nineties, in the boutique of the 34 boulevard Saint Germain…

04.02.2015 Pollock’s toy theaters

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Along the way

No wonder the diptyque founders collected Pollock’s theaters and were probably the only ones to sell them in Paris…

03.19.2015 Maubert back in the days

boutique diptyque vitrine
Along the way

In 1961, the neighbourhood of Maubert – Mutualité where diptyque opens its boutique was miles away from the right next door quartier Saint-Germain.

02.05.2015 Merchants of nothing

Gault-Millau
Along the way Gault et Millau, the founders of the famous and influential gastronomic guide, nicknamed diptyque “marchands de rien” meaning sellers of nothing. For decades the diptyque boutique at 34 boulevard Saint-Germain was a very unique place - there was no equal. It was probably the first very chic bazaar. The three founders were curious and intuitive with a refined taste in craftsmanship. As travellers they would go in search of beautiful…

01.26.2015 Who is the conductor?

wolfgang_amadeus_mozart
Along the way

A young sales person gets confused by a prestigious long-term customer about an interpretation of Mozart…

01.12.2015 Candles on Beverly Hills

Diptyque Beverly Hills
Crossed paths

At 312 North Beverly Drive Los Angeles, CA 90210

12.09.2014 Under Haichi’s protection

Stone_dog,_guardian_of_palais de Gyeongbokgung_against_fire,_Korea_c.1900 (POUR LA UNE)
Crossed paths

diptyque opens its first boutique in Corea. Hence it seems timely to honor Haechi, the mythical creature who protects the city of Seoul, its guardian Angel.

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