09.12.2016 Shoreditch
The sociological revival of this area may well be striking and spine-tingling but is not without some heartbreak and nostalgia…
The sociological revival of this area may well be striking and spine-tingling but is not without some heartbreak and nostalgia…
The Eureka moment first came when man watched a bird’s wings flapping in the air.
The speculative bubble caused by tulips in 1637 has the experts split in two camps.
The vast history of soap spans several eras, and probably all the continents and all cultures.
Shanghai was China’s first modern cosmopolitan city, its cultural capital and financial heart of Asia but tormented.
It’s likely that no other country than Japan ever created such a traditional art of fragrant smoke.
The rose and its perfume are standing here, just between evocative associations, lost memories and truth.
The image of Opone revives all the excitement of an unknown and fantasised Orient that brought to our shelves strange and sought after riches…
Waltersperger is the last semi-automatic French glass and crystal maker whose work requires highly skilled manual intervention.
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…
Early this summer as a tribute to this literary art, diptyque has accompanied its Eaux Parfumées with a free haiku…
For centuries its unique formula has been kept highly confidential, strongly coveted and extensively imitated…
This stylish house was probably the first building of modern architecture in France, and still remains one of the greatest.
Vanilla – this botanical pod covers history, space, issues, struggles, bankruptcies and shoddy fakes, however vanilla remains associated only with its flavor, its softness or pleasure…
The diptyque Vinaigre de toilette was inspired to the founders during their trip to Russia…
At all times amber was used for religious objects, arts and jewellery.
What exactly is potpourri?
Why would it be feared?
And by the way, who is Mrs. Merwin?
Time flies says the metaphor but there is no time that answers the sense of smell hence, the idea to create an hourglass of scents…
A young sales person gets confused by a prestigious long-term customer about an interpretation of Mozart…
Eau de Lierre was a tribute to long lasting friendships that is at the source of diptyque…
The garden of Les Lilas is at the front of the tall house of Hennequeville from where Marcel Proust would telegraph Paris…
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Directed by Stanly Kubrick, this true masterpiece was entirely and exclusively shot under candlelight…
Today, lighting candles for a birthday, and often as many candles as years of age, has become a tradition shared throughout nearly all the cultures of our world…
Lavoisier (1743-1794), who was a chemist, an economist and a philosopher, came to some key conclusions of his times while watching his candle burn.
The diptyque’s founders would never miss a concert of the Maestro in Paris…