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memento

by diptyque paris

  • Shadow of scents
  • Crossed paths
  • Along the way

01.05.2018 Mystical Turkish delight

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - L'Adoration des mages (504), Musée des Offices, Florence.
Along the way

ould an innocent pistachio loukoum (Turkish delight) conceal the gateway to Divinity?

09.15.2017 American Paris

Le Dingo bar - Rendu célèbre par Ernst Hemingway dans « Paris est une fête »,  au comptoir duquel il rencontra Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
Crossed paths

“The American of Paris is what America does best.” (Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)

07.28.2017 Perfume: the story of a murderer

Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) - Nymphe et satyre, dit aussi Jupiter et Antiope, Musée du Louvre
Crossed paths

“This novel by Patrick Süskind is primarily the story of a Nose called Jean-Baptiste Grenouille” (Julia Kerninon)

02.27.2017 Fahrenheit 451

Couverture annotée par le cinéaste François Truffaut du livre Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury, éditions Denoël – (La Cinémathèque française © Succession François Truffaut)
Along the way

In the fictitious society of Fahrenheit 451, books are outlawed, hunted down and destroyed by fire.

09.02.2016 Slowness

Milan Kundera, écrivain tchécoslovaque né en 1929 et naturalisé français.
Along the way

“The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory ; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetfulness” (Milan Kundera, excerpt from Slowness)

05.09.2016 Voyage around my room

Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852), gravure de Cyprien Jacquemin
Along the way

« So that’s how come I’m learning lessons about philosophy and humanity from my servant and my dog during my voyage. » (Xavier de Maistre)

04.11.2016 Calvino’s senses

Italo Calvino à New York en 1983 (photographie ©Dominique Nabokov)
Crossed paths

Writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985) planned to write five tales, each dedicated to one of the senses.

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.

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