Travels

Art, Parfums, Travels, Windows

A WINDOW IN ... Arte Profumo, Udine - Italy

Arte Profumo , Piazza Marconi 6, 33100 Udine, Italy - www.arteprofumo.it

The window display is dedicated to Nuit de Bakélite, according to Olefacto event which took place at Arte Profumo on September 13th, 2017.

Travels

A FEW DAYS IN NORMANDY, France

From "The Haras national du Pin" also named "The Versailles for horses" built by Louis XIV, (King of France & of Navarre) to "D'une Île" - an incredibly charming countryside hotel; Normandy is always green & restful in summer.

Le Haras national du Pin. http://www.haras-national-du-pin.com/

 

Art, Travels, Hotel

LES BAINS 1885 . 1978 . 2015, Paris

FROM 1885 TO 2011... A PLACE AMONG PLACES. 

Opened in 1885, Les Bains Douches, built and operated by the Guerbois family, 
became the first and the most renowned bathhouse of the capital. 
It was a temple; a space sanctified to massages and delights of Japanese, Russian, Turkish and sulphur baths. 
Customers could choose to swim in the pool or take a bath as they would at home. 
Marcel Proust loved to come and take steam baths, while the workers from the nearby Les Halles food market
came at dawn to shower and drink coffee and calvados after their night’s labours.

In 1978, this unique place transformed clubbing into an art and rapidly became a
cultural phenomenon; a temple of the Parisian night. It was a centre of gravity,
the eye of the storm, a crossroads of fashion, media, show business and arts. 
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, Naomi Campbell,
Claudia Schiffer, Bono, Prince, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, etc. The list is endless. 

In 2011, to reinvent and save this icon of Parisian nightlife, La Société des Bains was born under
the leadership of Jean-Pierre Marois... This, then, is the very first page of the new history of Les Bains.

https://www.lesbains-paris.com/en/

Photos by Mr R

Art, Parfums, Travels

ISABELLE DOYEN, Milan

Isabelle Doyen is a graduate from the renowned ISIPCA, Paris. Today, she is a part time teacher there, sharing her extensive knowledge of fine perfumery. Outstanding students Francis Kurkdjian & Mathilde Laurent are graduates of her class. 

The rest of Isabelle’s time is devoted to her perfume creation company Aromatique Majeur. Since the 1980's, Isabelle has been the ‘in house’ perfumer for Annick Goutal where with Annick, she co-signed many of Goutal’s perfumes. With Camille Goutal, Isabelle continues to create for the Goutal brand. 

Isabelle was one of the very first independent master noses, who has gained rare distinguished respect from her fellow peers as a talented artist expressing her creativity through fine perfumery. She considers fragrance compositions as a universal language - deeply personal, intimate & secret. Isabelle is a friend, who Renaud has known & followed for 13 years. Naomi & Renaud had always dreamed of working with Isabelle well before the creation of their premier fragrances. From Isabelle’s side, she viewed Naomi as a source of inspiration. So through a close collaborative vision ‘ Nuit de Bakélite ’ was born.

Photo by Evgeniya Chudakova in Naomi Goodsir Parfums, "Insomnia" suite, in Milan 2017

Art, Exhibitions, Travels

SHAY FRISCH / LUMINOUS CONNECTIONS, Milan

Shay Frisch exhibition "Luminous Connections" - Compo 37586_B / N, just ended at the Galleria San Fedele in Milan. A very interesting work based on the transmission of the energy that creates light. The catalogue of the exhibition - Silvana Editoriale -  is available at the Biblioteca San Fedele.

campo 4011_N, 2010 / electrical components

campo 7346_N, 2016 / electrical components

campo 14009_B, 2012 - 2016 / electrical components. Photos by Mr R

Fashion, Travels

HAT EX MACHINA

Industrial machines from another era & French ancestral savoir faire - still going strong today ...

 
 

Travels

ROME, Italy

"Quand je considère ma vie, je suis épouvanté de la trouver informe. L’existence des héros, celle qu’on nous raconte, est simple ; elle va droit au but comme une flèche. Et la plupart des hommes aiment à résumer leur vie dans une formule, parfois dans une vanterie ou dans une plainte, presque toujours dans une récrimination ; leur mémoire leur fabrique complaisamment une existence explicable et claire. Ma vie a des contours moins fermes. Comme il arrive souvent, c’est ce que je n’ai pas été, peut-être, qui la définit avec le plus de justesse : bon soldat, mais point grand homme de guerre, amateur d’art, mais point cet artiste que Néron crut être à sa mort, capable de crimes, mais point chargé de crimes". 

"Mémoires d'Hadrien" by Marguerite Yourcenar, 1951.