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  • Crossed paths
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05.18.2018 Oyédo

oyedo
Along the way

Eau Oyédo merges two diptyque favourites: Japan and a bright citrus scent.

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.

12.23.2016 The Japanese gift package according to Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes, Dessin, 14 août 1975 (Département des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
Crossed paths

« … it is precisely a speciality of the Japanese package that the triviality of the thing be disproportionate to the luxury of the envelope. » (Roland Barthes)

11.23.2015 Golden shadow

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) (1886-1965)
Along the way

Shadow is something – it weaves light, it links elements together, its vibrations and variations adorn the volumes of silence surrounded by the bare walls.

11.02.2015 The way of incense

Ichiryusai-HIROSHIGE-1797-1858-landscapes238
Along the way

It’s likely that no other country than Japan ever created such a traditional art of fragrant smoke.

07.09.2015 Way of flowers

meiji-uchiwa-e-courtisane-pratiquant-likebana
Along the way

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

haïku visuel 2
Along the way

Early this summer as a tribute to this literary art, diptyque has accompanied its Eaux Parfumées with a free haiku…

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