Paris, France – A good old-fashioned ice-cream truck has pulled up onto the posh Place de la Concorde in Paris. The venue, one of the most beautiful in the French capital is […]
Brief Bites: An Ice-cream Idyll from the Crillon
Family Affair: The Marvels of Mauviel
It all began back in 1830 in the Bay of Mount Saint Michel region when Ernest Mauviel founded his kitchen utensil making workshop whose products are known throughout the world today in […]
Perfect Perfumes
Azure. Azure blue, a color that takes its name from the intriguing blue stone the lapis lazuli and which is closely associated with the Mediterranean Sea and in particular the French Riviera, […]
Lasting Lapis Lazuli
The dreamy brilliantly blue gem lapis lazuli has intrigued mankind since Antiquity. It has been known for at least 6,000 years and draws its name from the Persian word lazhward meaning blue […]
Champagne Time With…
Pertois-Lebrun The champagne house of Pertois-Lebrun delightfully brings out only Blanc de Blancs Grand Crus champagnes from its home base in the town of Cramant in the aptly named Côte des Blancs […]
A Moment in Time: Air Time
This is a clock that lives on air. It is a simple mechanism invented by the engineer Jean-Léon Reutter in 1928 and brought out by the Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre in the 1930s. […]
Zenith: Reaching for Stars in the Sky
The Defy Midnight Timepiece from the House of Zenith Photo Courtesy Zenith The Swiss watchmaking house of Zenith is placing women’s watches in the forefront and with its elegant new Defy Midnight […]
Brief Bites: The Caviar Sandwich
Paris, France – Leave it to a Parisian institution to come up with a caviar sandwich, and that on traditional French baguette bread. Prunier is offering a nice French change of pace […]
Another Zenith for Zenith
To dare, to challenge, to throw down the gauntlet, to boldly go beyond, that is what it means to defy and the Defy Inventor from the house of Zenith does just that. […]
A Bauhaus Birthday
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the inception of the Bauhaus, the German art school that was operational from 1919 to 1933, the German watch maker Junghans has brought out its Junghans […]
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