05.18.2018 Oyédo
Eau Oyédo merges two diptyque favourites: Japan and a bright citrus scent.
04.24.2017 Edo art forms
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
« … 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
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
It’s likely that no other country than Japan ever created such a traditional art of fragrant smoke.
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…