700 plants in the garden of La Serena, Forte dei Marmi
At Vittoria Apuana, a Sixties building steps into the present as a five-star boutique hotel, its garden filled with citrus, ferns and hydrangeas beneath tall maritime pines It feels like living the golden age of Sixties Forte dei Marmi, carried into the present. A building from that decade, poised between brutalism and modernism yet warm […]
Guerlain Vétiver Fauve: eau de parfum, rewriting a classic ingrédient
With Vétiver Fauve, Guerlain hands perfumer Delphine Jelk a difficult raw material — vetiver root — and asks for something the molecule has rarely produced: lightness Vétiver Fauve is an eau de parfum within Guerlain’s L’Art & La Matière haute parfumerie collection, composed by in-house perfumer Delphine Jelk. The fragrance is built around vetiver root […]
Eau des Princes, L.T. Piver: the Politics of Mint
An aromatic built on nineteenth-century mythology, herb-driven composition, and the question of what "heritage" actually means in fragrance
A Journey Through Contemporary Art and Architecture on the French Riviera
At Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Design Converges with Art and Architecture Saint-Paul-de-Vence: A Historic Village Meets Contemporary Art Situated in the south of France, Fondation CAB opened its second location in Saint-Paul-de-Vence in 2021, in a village known for its artistic history. Narrow stone streets, medieval walls and terraced rooftops have long drawn painters and sculptors, […]