Monthly Archives: May 2016
A Moroccan night
Jardin de Majorelle in Marrakech
Sunny Miami
Wonderful skies decorated with palm trees in Marrakech
Under the Palm trees
Pop colours in the Tropics
Pink tourmaline
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Tourmaline is an important group of complex gem-quality boron silicate minerals. This fine stone can be found in a multitude of colours : “from black to bluish-black, dark brown, yellow, medium brown, blue to neon blue, lime to dark forest … Continue reading
My favourite recent movies
Blue and pink flowers
Bakelite jewelry
Bakelite is a castable, fire resistant plastic invented by Leo Baekeland in 1909 for industrial purposes. However, jewelry makers used it to create jewels ; it was very popular in the 1930’s and 1940’s.
The jewelry designer Mark Davis uses bakelite for his designs :
Chic in the jungle
Ravishing ruffles
Lapis Lazuli jewelry
Lazurite is a feldspathoid silicate and belongs to sodalite group of minerals. It is a blue stone which can vary from “greenish blue to violetish, from medium to dark and from low to highly saturated”.
This fine stone is found mainly in Afghanistan but is also found in Angola, Argentina, Canada, Chile (North of Santiago), India, Italy, Myanmar (Burma), Pakistan, Russia and the United States (California and Colorado).
Besides, the name “lapis lazuli” comes from the Latin word “lapis” meaning “stone” and from the Arabic and the Persian word “lazaward” (Persian name for lapis stone and the name of the mining location).
The Cannes Film Festival in photos
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Glamour, sparkles and off course cinephilia are there at the Cannes Film Festival. Anna Kendrick : Audrey Tautou : Diane Kruger : Emma Stone : Elle Fanning (member of the Cannes jury in 2019) : Rachel McAdams : Leonardo DiCaprio … Continue reading
Blue topaz jewelry
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Topaz is an aluminium silicate containing fluorine and hydroxyl. Purely, it is colourless (white) ; it is the impurities which cause the variations of colour. “Topaz ranges from colourless to yellow, orange, red-brown, light to dark-blue, pink to red, violet … Continue reading
The dolce vita
Peridot jewelry
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Peridot is a transparent variety of Olivine and belongs to the forsterite-fayalite mineral series. It is an idiochromatic gem (single colour gem) : peridot is only found in green. But there are shades of green depending of the amount of iron … Continue reading
A cloud-like and delicate dress
Among delicate flowers
Tanzanite jewelry
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Tanzanite is a variety of Zoisite (calcium aluminum silicate ) and has a colour varying from blue to violet. This stone is Heat treatments enhance the Tanzanite’s colours. This gemstone is named “Tanzanite” because a deposit was found in 1967 … Continue reading
An Oriental palace
Under the palm trees
An exotic night among palm trees
A spring among cherries
Lemon yellow
Turquoise jewelry
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Turquoise is a hydrated copper and aluminium phosphate. The colour varies from blue to blue-green. Turquoise is often mottled with cream or brown veins. Furthermore, the name “turquoise” comes from a confusion : when Venitian merchants brought this stone in … Continue reading
Delicious strawberries
The vintage Cannes Film Festival in photos
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For more than sixty years, the Cannes Film Festival has celebrated Cinema. Cinephilia, glamour and glitz are featured. It is a major event of the Film industry but also an opportunity for fashion and luxury brands to valorize its image … Continue reading
Pop colours and black and white puzzles
Fleur-de-lis
Amazonite jewelry
The Amazonite (also named Microcline) is a variety of potassium feldspar (like moonstone). The name “Amazonite” comes from the Amazon River in Brazil. The colour varies from green to blue-green. This fine gemstone can be confused with Turquoise and Jade. Amazonite is found mainly in Colorado, Brazil, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibie, Russia and Zimbabwe.
Jacquie Aiche’s charm
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Among colorful birds
Under the lemon trees
Lovely hearts
Jessica Chastain
Jessica Chastain is my favourite current actress. She is very talented, glamour and plays interesting female characters in great movies. I like her particulary in the movies “Miss Sloane”, “Molly’s game” directed by Aaron Sorkin, “Interstellar” directed by Christopher Nolan, “A most violent year” directed by J.C. Chandor, “ Zero Dark Thirty” by Kathryn Bigelow and “The debt” by John Madden.
For more information about Jessica Chastain : http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1567113/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Gemstone flower
A sunny and flowered afternoon at the Parc floral in Paris
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I went to the Parc floral in May and i was enchanted by the colorful and luxurious flowers. I saw an amazing collection of tulips and enormous peonies. The Parc floral is located Route de la Pyramide 75012 Paris.
Sylvia Toledano
The French designer Sylvia Toledano launched her eponym brand in 2007 to sell jewelry and minaudieres. Her jewels are gold and decorated with gemstones (Labradorites, Lapis Lazuli, Carnelian, Tigereye, quartz…). Through her creations, the founder bring us in a bright and colorful universe. I love the Byzantine style, the use of colored gemstones and gold.
The website : http://www.sylviatoledano.com/
Gemstone architecture
Luxurious blue flowers
Among flowers and birds
A gourmet and elegant Tea time near to the Tuileries at Sebastien Gaudard in Paris
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Closed to the Tuileries, there is the wonderful and refined pastry and tea house “Sébastien Gaudard”. We can degust delicious traditional French pastries and savouring tea. Sébastien Godard is one of my favourite pastry chef in Paris. The decoration is … Continue reading
Surrounded by gold birds
Blue and Fuschia flowers
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I drew these flowers few years ago and i created new patterns with photoshop.
Black and white
Black and white flowers
Copenhagen in Denmark
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When i went to Copenhagen, Denmark in 2011, i was charmed and delighted by the colorful houses, the sea breeze, the famous little mermaid and the Royal Palace.
Black and white stripes
Woman with a bird cage
This painting has been realised by József Rippl-Rónai in 1892. I saw it during the exhibition “Masterpieces of Budapest” at the Luxembourg museum in Paris. I was impressed by this paint : the blue and green colours, the graceful woman, the contrast between the pale skin and the dark background and the charming bird in a cage.
Moonstone jewelry
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Moonstone is a fine gemstone belonging to the silicate group and the feldspar family of minerals. Jean Claude Delamétherie discovered this stone in 1801. The moonstone is characterized by the adularescence : an optical phenomenum constiting in “a milky, bluish … Continue reading