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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)

12.19.2016 Christmas pyramids

"Weihnachtspyramide" (pyramide de Noël)
Along the way

The German Christmas pyramid or « weihnachtspyramide » appeared during the XIXth century in the mountains between Saxony and Bohemia.

12.14.2015 The tones of a gift

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Along the way

In the diptyque tradition of the present, colors are nothing without folding.

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

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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

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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…

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