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Tag: Mailys Vranken

Art: Never Forget

Posted on September 19, 2021September 22, 2021by JC AgidLeave a comment

Art: Never Forget
English edited by Delphine Schrank

Who could have imagined in March 2001 that when the Taliban gleefully blew up the three giant Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, their appalling act of cultural vandalism was just a prelude to the assassination less than six months later of Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, the country’s iconic resistance leader, and just two days after that, to the attacks of September 11? Silent vigils to the endless vicissitudes of human history, these storied sculptures had survived countless previous attempts to ransack or raid them since their creation sometime between the 4th and the 8th century. 

More recently, Islamic State terrorists, or ISIS, made a central mission of destroying the archaeological sites across Syria and Iraq—art, the collateral victim of anger and stupidity. 

Archaeologists had previously dismembered many of these relics and transported them to major Western museums—art, the collateral victim, or assumed booty, of powerful nations, human vanity, and plunderers too.

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Posted in ART, Byline JC Agid, Covid-19, Culture, New York, Politics, Society
Tagged 58th Carnegie International, 58th Carnegie International and Curator-at-Large at Sculpture Center, 9/11, Armory Show, Bamiyan, Blooming, Camille Corot, Claudia Schmuckli, Corinne Erni, Emile Gallé, Exhibition Blooming, Experience Pommery, Experience#, Fantin Latour, Gauguin, Gustave Navlet, Irina Bokova, Jane Lombard Gallery, JC Agid, Jean-François Fourtou, Jean-François Millet, Jean-Pierre Formica, Keith Tyson, King Ashurnasirpal II, les Glaneuses, Louise Pommery, Mailys Vranken, Michael Rakowitz, Musée d'Orsay, Nathalie Vranken, Parish Art Museum, Paul-François Vranken, Pauline Vranken, Pommery Prize, Room F, Sculpture Center, Sohrab Mohebbi, UNESCO, Virginie Boudoscq, Vranken Pommery America, Vranken-Pommery Monopole

A Midsummer Dream in France

Posted on July 14, 2021July 22, 2021by JC Agid1 Comment

A Midsummer Dream in France
English edited by Delphine Schrank
French Version via Le Petit Journal

For some of us this summer, France is calling, and we may even experience the mysterious sense of a first encounter. Yet for many others, France remains a distant dream and desire, an aching absence after so many months. 

So, allow me to share with you my ideal vacation, the sum of multiple experiences: cultural, artistic, gastronomic, and oenological in historical and natural places. Together these make France one of the most varied, envied, and marveled-at countries in the world. I dream above all of sharing those experiences with family, a family of chosen friends, day after day.

So, come along this epistolary journey: a night in Versailles at Alain Ducasse’s newest hotel, an invitation to deep thought and conversation at the Napoleons in Arles, the magic of music in La Roque d’Anthéron, entertainment at the Festival de Ramatuelle, a breath of oxygen (and greed) atop Chamonix, and a glass of champagne in Reims to toast an exhibition with the seductive title, “Blooming.”

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Posted in Architecture, ART, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Hospitality, Society, Travelogue
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Which Glass Should I Use to Taste Champagne?

Posted on October 11, 2020October 11, 2020by JC AgidLeave a comment

Which glass should I use to taste Champagne?
Excerpts from an interview with Clément Pierlot, Cellar Master of Pommery Champagne.
(This post was edited by Word Factor. Click here for more information)
A French version of this article was published on Le Petit Journal. click here.

It was an unexpected and happy movement. I brushed aside two glasses standing on a coffee table. They were wider in the middle and beveled down, yet their shape did not matter anymore. All that remained on the ground were shards of broken glass.

These two glasses were a gift, two champagne glasses that had nothing in common with the ones I used for my friends: six “tulip” glasses made of crystal, also known as flutes. Thin, elongated, fragile, and unique with reliefs of light on a stand, my flutes have a formal spot in my home.

I therefore could not care less about the two broken glasses, yet I was doubting: “Am I serving champagne with the proper glasses when I use the flutes?” 

I asked the question to the Chef de Cave—the winemaker—of Pommery Champagne, Clément Pierlot, while interviewing him during an online tasting dinner in June 2020 organized by the French Institute-Alliance Française, Tastings and Vranken-Pommery America:

Pierlot’s answer was a resounding ‘no.’

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Posted in Byline JC Agid, Culture, Uncategorized
Tagged Champagne, Clément Pierlot, Cuvée Louise, Dom Pérignon, Krug Grande Cuvée, Lifestyle, Louis Pommery, Louise Pommery, Mailys Vranken, Marquise de Pompadour, Vranken Pommery, Vranken Pommery America, Well Being

At Your Home Without Me: The Obstacle Race of Olivier Cassegrain

Posted on May 19, 2020June 16, 2020by JC Agid2 Comments

At Your Home Without Me: The Obstacle Race of Olivier Cassegrain

A jockey smoking a pipe on a galloping horse. In a single blue stroke of pencil, Marion Naufal’s watercolor sums up the challenges of a race, a style, a brand—Longchamp—and of the family Cassegrain whose history has been attached to America right from the start.

Comfortably seated on his New York terrace, the grandson of the Longchamp’s founder, Olivier Cassegrain, is meticulously watching over the American destiny of the family business.

While retail sales in Texas are slowly picking up again, the original Madison Avenue boutique is still closed along with all the other luxury brands in Manhattan. In Soho, the Maison Longchamp remains as empty as the Hudson Yards Vessel where, until a few weeks ago, tourists, business travelers and New Yorkers flocked. “The stairs of the Vessel are with those of the Soho boutique the most famous in New York,” says Cassegrain. They are both the work of the same English architect. “I would be quite happy to see more people on these stairs soon,” adds the Vice-President of Longchamp United States with a smile, “at least a little more on those in SoHo than on those of Hudson Yards.” Filling these stairs is just an additional challenge for the man who loves nothing more than overcoming obstacles with a cigar on his lips.

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Posted in Byline JC Agid, Covid-19, Culture, Fashion, Fire Chat With, Marion Naufal, New York, Not At Home With
Tagged 404 Faubourg Saint Honoré, Alexandra Morris, Burberry, CHanel, David Yurman, Elvis Presley, Eva Mendes, Graceland Museum, H&M, Hudson Yards, Jean Cassegrain, Kate Moss, Kendall Jenner, Longchamp, Lucy Liu, Mailys Vranken, Maison Longchamp, Maison Longchamp Soho, Marion Naufal, Michele Cassegrain, NATO, Olivier Cassegrain, Orly Airport, Philippe Cassegrain, Pipes, Pliage, Pliage Club, Pliage Longchamp, Pliage Origami, Pommery, Smoking Pipes, Susan Sarandon, Tastings, The Vessel, Thomas Heatherwick, Uma Thurman, Vranken Pommery, Vranken Pommery America

Bubbles and Bouquets, with a French Flair in Times of COVID-19

Posted on April 8, 2020April 12, 2020by JC AgidLeave a comment

Bubbles and Bouquets, with a French Flair

A dinner delivered to your home by Alexandra Morris‘ catering company, accompanied by rosé wines and French champagnes imported by Mailys Vranken; a breakfast or a quiche, those found at Michèle Saint Laurent and Aksana Ivaniuk‘s Chez Les Frenchies next door to the Lycée Français of New York; a bouquet of flowers prepared by the floral artist Agnès de Villarson; or cooking the recipes offered by Mirjam Lavabre: not only is it possible, but ordering from these women entrepreneurs is also insuring the existence of their businesses and supporting  the creative and collaborative Francophone women’s leadership in New York.

As for so many other small businesses, the year 2020 had started perfectly for the American subsidiary of Vranken-Pommery group and for Tastings, one of New York’s most famous caterers and owner of two restaurants in East Harlem.

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Miami, New York, Women Empowerment, Women Entrepreneurs
Tagged Agnes de Villarson, Aksana Ivaniuk, Alexandra Morris, Chapelle Gordonne, Chez Les Frenchies, City Harvest, Covid-19, Cuis'In, Cuvée Louise, Gaudir, LFNY, Louis Pommery, Mailys Vranken, Michele Saint Laurent, Mirjam Lavabre, Moutain Bird, Pommery, Surf Club Four Seasons, Tastings, Vranken, Vranken Pommery, Vranken Pommery America

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