Our report about the unexpected and rare benefits of Shungite Stone in Russia.

With 156 million entries on the net in a fraction of a second, stones and beauty are a good match. They’re now attending to our health and our well-being. To know them better and keep our heads cool, here is a short history of our beloved gems.

Or How Re-Conquering Her Beauty Involves Quitting

Women were not buying make-up: they were buying freedom, and most importantly, audacity.

"It is through women and sports that the suntan made its entrance into the fashionable set.” Stéphanie Hussonnois-Bouhayati explores our not-so recent passionate relationship with the sun.

Meet Simon, a clumsy young provincial, who has just arrived in Paris in the hope of seducing the most beautiful - and the most difficult? - women in the world: Parisian women.

People have been brushing their teeth for 5,000 years. But the universal chore of scrubbing our gnashers twice a day is based on rather whimsical practices.

Our beauty secrets have led us to the oldest barber in the world... Still active at 102 years old, she shares with us some well kept beauty secrets.

The evil of the century! Within a generation, we believe that handwriting will disappear. The Officine is resisting!A calligraphy class with a renowned teacher, to be followed every week. Here, how to choose the right tools!

The journey to Egypt begins in Paris. The obelisk of the Concorde or the statues of the Châtelet anchor the Orient in a historic Paris. The Seine or the Nile, pyramid of the Louvre or Giza, all merges in unison in a scent of "Retour d'Égypte".  

Soap may have been crowned king of hygiene in the 19th century, but he didn’t always take centre stage in the expert protocol of the bath…

‘Beauty is not that subjective. In today’s world, where people are judged and swiped left based on a single photograph, everyone roughly knows how they rank.’ Fabien Prade

The rest of our tremendous Beauty Adventures in Kalymnos, Greece. Harvested by hand, sea sponges are carefully shaped and cut before joining the wooden shelves of our Officines. Part 2/2

The journalist Mathilde Bertier, exposes the incredible birth of scented candles. Decorative element, they have a special symbolism in Ancient Egypt or the Middle Age. The two epochs easily agree on their distinction and elegance...

Men dive to the depths of the Greek coast to bring back their finest treasures: rare sponges, natural and harvested alive to take care of the skin. Our camera plunges under the waves of the Aegean Sea to accompany our brave men all scuba dressed... 

Never has the sky been so blue, so deep, so fierce with heat.

"How was being in love? Awful. Spectacular. And awful. Especially considering the guy died, and I was 19. He was a lot older than me. It may be because he died that this thing is so beautiful, but anyway it’s very, very beautiful. It’s called pure love. After that, you love differently, you love for specific reasons. You no longer love gratuitously. Loving exists."

A literary saga whose first episode attacks the standardization of appearances. The canons of beauty are dictated by the West and the 9 zeroes Instagram accounts. Faïza Guène signs this paper full of subtleties, humor and great truths.

A walk in Paris, as if you were there. Talking images as meaningful as words.

The evil of the century! Within a generation, we believe that handwriting will disappear. The Officine is resisting!A calligraphy class with a renowned teacher, to be followed every week. Here, how to position your gesture and your quill!