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)
12.19.2016 Christmas pyramids
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
In the diptyque tradition of the present, colors are nothing without folding.
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…