Journal
Essais sur l'histoire du textile japonais, l'artisanat et la culture de la soie de cérémonie — accompagnés de guides pour l'entretien et l'utilisation d'objets en soie vintage.
Why Boutique Hotels Are Acquiring Unrepeatable ...
There is a moment hoteliers recognise. A guest checks in, walks to their room, and comes back to the desk. Not because something is wrong. Because something stopped them. They...
Why Boutique Hotels Are Acquiring Unrepeatable ...
There is a moment hoteliers recognise. A guest checks in, walks to their room, and comes back to the desk. Not because something is wrong. Because something stopped them. They...
La soie que nous avions oubliée
Before there were borders or nations, before the word luxury had been invented and quietly ruined, there was a thread. On the five-thousand-year origins of silk and the memory that...
La soie que nous avions oubliée
Before there were borders or nations, before the word luxury had been invented and quietly ruined, there was a thread. On the five-thousand-year origins of silk and the memory that...
L'architecture du silence
There is a quality of silence that belongs only to rooms where nothing is trying too hard. On how Japanese ceremonial silk carries that quality — the weight of occasion,...
L'architecture du silence
There is a quality of silence that belongs only to rooms where nothing is trying too hard. On how Japanese ceremonial silk carries that quality — the weight of occasion,...
Hana-fubuki
Hana-fubuki — flower snowstorm — is the Japanese word for the moment when cherry blossoms fall all at once. An essay on mono no aware, the bittersweet awareness of impermanence,...
Hana-fubuki
Hana-fubuki — flower snowstorm — is the Japanese word for the moment when cherry blossoms fall all at once. An essay on mono no aware, the bittersweet awareness of impermanence,...
La récolte chromatique — Senteurs de la nature
What a European eye notices first in Japanese ceremonial silk is the colour. An indigo that is not quite navy, not quite violet. A gold that has aged away from...
La récolte chromatique — Senteurs de la nature
What a European eye notices first in Japanese ceremonial silk is the colour. An indigo that is not quite navy, not quite violet. A gold that has aged away from...
KOYOMI — Les 72 micro-saisons
The traditional Japanese calendar did not divide the year into four seasons. It divided it into 72: micro-seasons of roughly five days each, each named for a specific natural event....
KOYOMI — Les 72 micro-saisons
The traditional Japanese calendar did not divide the year into four seasons. It divided it into 72: micro-seasons of roughly five days each, each named for a specific natural event....