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Van Cleef & Arpels High Jewelry Collection, No.22 Place Vendôme, Paris, France

Van Cleef & Arpels is a French luxury jewelry company. It was founded in 1896 by the Dutch diamond-cutter Alfred Van Cleef and his father-in-law Salomon Arpels in Paris. Van Cleef & Arpels embodies the excellence in the high jewellery and watch making and is recognized by everyone as the…

Van Cleef & Arpels High Jewelry Collection, No.22 Place Vendôme, Paris, France

Guide Tour of the Place-Vendôme district, Paris, France

The Quartier of Place-Vendôme is the 4th administrative district of Paris, located in the 1st arrondissement. This district takes its name from Place Vendôme. The district is order and beauty, luxury, calm and pleasure, full of prestigious jewelers, restaurants, cafes, bars, and many traders. The square is made up of…

Guide Tour of the Place-Vendôme district, Paris, France

Brand story and Brief presentation of Chaumet Jewelry collection 2010s-2020s

Chaumet is a French jewelry, jewelery and watchmaking house founded in 1780 by Marie-Étienne Nitot. Fourteen artisans ply their trade in the workshop on Place Vendôme under the direction of foreman Pascal Bourdariat. Official supplier to Empress Josephine and jeweler to sovereigns, Chaumet was also the first jewelry house to…

Brand story and Brief presentation of Chaumet Jewelry collection 2010s-2020s

Look back of Sirha Europain 2020-2022, Paris, France

Sirha Europain celebrates French style bakery-pastry. All the knowledge, French heritage, know-how and skill is experienced and exported at Sirha Europain, the event of reference for the bakery-pastry sector. Suppliers of raw materials, designers of precision machinery, artisans, and entrepreneurs come together to exchange around an approach to bakery-pastry that…

Look back of Sirha Europain 2020-2022, Paris, France

Look back of Paris Pastry Fair 2019, France

As a big meeting place for French pastry in Paris, the 2nd edition of Paris Pastry Fair (French: Salon de la Pâtisserie) was held from June 14 to 17, 2019, in Hall 5.1 of Paris Expo at Porte de Versailles. A pillar of French cultural heritage, a buoyant economic sector,…

Look back of Paris Pastry Fair 2019, France

Guide Tour of Gobelins Manufactory, Paris, France

The Gobelins Manufactory is a historic tapestry factory in Paris, France. It is located at 42 avenue des Gobelins, near Les Gobelins métro station in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. It is best known as a royal factory supplying the court of the French monarchs since Louis XIV, and it…

Guide Tour of Gobelins Manufactory, Paris, France

Guide Tour of the Saint-Ouen flea market, Paris, France

The Saint-Ouen flea market designates both a district and a set of markets in the city of Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, on the edge of Paris. The various markets bring together nearly 2,000 merchants and extend over 7 hectares. The Paris Saint-Ouen flea market is located at a northern gate of Paris opposite…

Guide Tour of the Saint-Ouen flea market, Paris, France

Homo Faber, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

“Homo sapiens Faber” is a permanent exhibition occupying a 350 m2 section of the basement of the mNACTEC, showing the evolution of science and technology from the first great technological revolution of humanity, the Stone Age revolution, up to early industrialisation, focusing in particular on the Catalan context. Mankind has,…

Homo Faber, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

Gradation art

Gradation in art is a visual technique of gradually transitioning from one colour hue to another, or from one shade to another, or one texture to another. Space, distance, atmosphere, volume, and curved or rounded forms are some of the visual effects created with gradation. Artists use a variety of…

Gradation art

Gilding

Gilding is any decorative technique for applying a very thin coating of gold to solid surfaces such as metal (most common), wood, porcelain, or stone. Gilding gives an object a gold appearance at a fraction of the cost of creating a solid gold object. A solid gold piece would often…

Gilding

Froissage

Froissage is a method of collage developed by Czech artist Ladislav Novák in which the lines made by crumpling up a piece of paper are used to create a drawing. One major exponent of the art of froissage is Jiří Kolář. Froissage is a unique art in which the contours…

Froissage

Flocking in texture

Flocking is the process of depositing many small fiber particles (called flock) onto a surface. It can also refer to the texture produced by the process, or to any material used primarily for its flocked surface. Flocking of an article can be performed for the purpose of increasing its value…

Flocking in texture

Flipped image

A flipped image or reversed image, is a static or moving image that is generated by a mirror-reversal of an original across a horizontal axis (a flopped image is mirrored across the vertical axis). Many printmaking techniques produce images where the printed copy is reversed from the image made on…

Flipped image

Faux painting

Faux painting or faux finishing are terms used to describe decorative paint finishes that replicate the appearance of materials such as marble, wood or stone. The term comes from the French word faux, meaning false, as these techniques started as a form of replicating materials such as marble and wood…

Faux painting

Engraving

The engraving is an artistic discipline in which the artist uses different techniques printing, they have in common the draw an image on a rigid surface, called matrix, leaving a trail after staying ink to be transferred by pressure to another surface such as paper or fabric, which allows to…

Engraving

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