Jakob + MacFarlane’s new 260-square-foot Frédéric Malle perfume boutique in Paris’s Marais district reflects an ambience that is as majestic as it is aromatic.
Although she’s scarcely 30 years of age, Gaia Repossi has been revamping her family’s century-old jewelry house, founded in Turin, since becoming creative director in 2007.
Rumor has it that the quaint town inspired the architecture in Disney’s animated film Beauty and the Beast. But in a recent renovation of the city’s Musée Unterlinden, Herzog & de Meuron made a conscious effort to avoid the preciousness of a Disney film.
It's not often that art, architecture, and wine-making come together as a cultural statement. Unless, of course it occurs in France, which prides itself on its own special savoir vivre. Ironically, the person behind this sensual conjunction at Chateau La Coste in Provence, where a winery has been enlivened with works of architecture and sculpture, is an Irishman, Patrick (Paddy) McKillen.