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Airdiem
The narghile by Airdiem (also known as a narghileh, argileh, waterpipe, kalian, shisha, ghelyoon, hooka or hubble-bubble) stands as the cosmopolitan centrepiece around which Airdiem fashions a broad line of very high quality smoking-room accessories, such as our mixture boxes, humidors, smoking-room chest, moveable furniture, and more.
Airdiem is a company created by Eric and Emmanuelle Gormand out of their desire to re-invent the smoking room, that special place for sensual pleasure and conviviality.
Airdiem works with fine materials like gold, silver, pewter, Corian, rare exotic woods and precious leathers.
The very name Airdiem suggests precious moments: The &ldquoair&rdquo stands for lightness and reverie, and the &ldquodiem&rdquo comes from the motto of the ancient hedonists, carpe diem.
Highly distinctive designers work with Airdiem, creating narghiles that belong to today. These are visionary artists whose great pleasure is to put themselves into their designs: Nedda El-Asmar, Hilton Mc Connico, Régis Dho, Atelier SZ, TribuDesign.

La Maison du Cadre
La Maison du Cadre is a family framing business set up in 1933 that still uses traditional methods. A beautiful finish and quality craftsmanship are the key words in their workshop. Their artisans have a perfect mastery of traditional techniques (water gilding, patina, production of glazes, use of pigments, etc.). La Maison du Cadre makes both antique and modern frames of all types. They will advise you on the right type of wood, finish and colour to meet your specifications and enhance your decoration. They also clean and restore frames and gilded wood using century-old techniques: gessoing and gilding (white and yellow gold, copper, silver, platinum, etc.) and patinas.

www.lamaisonducadre.com

Bozea
Bozea offers you a unique choice of decorative objects from across the globe collected by designers Martin Gentil and Julien Platel that are both authentic and contemporary and based on a sustainable, fair trade approach with their partners. Each of the items for sale on the website will help you to discover traditions and high-quality expertise being developed thousands of kilometres away. With a catalogue of some 500 items, the aim is to have a broad product and partner base so that customers can continue to discover the history of traditional cultures through objects that conjure up far away places.

www.bozea.com

Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
Duchaufour-Lawrance is both a designer of objects and interior environments. Following in the footsteps of his father, a sculptor, at an early stage he took an artistic orientation. Brought up in a creative atmosphere, he soon defined his own language: using natural shapes, aiming at smooth and organic lines, which remain fluid and structured at the same time. With a dregree in Metal Sculpture from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Art in his pocket, he then entered the Furniture section of the renowned school Les Arts Décoratifs.
Thanks to a rich creative background. Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance explored new boundaries and rapidly became involved in unusual projects: one after the other, they have enabled him to define and create his own aesthetics and style. In 2002, he was artistic director for the Sketch restaurant in Soho, London: his bold interior design soon transformed it into one of the most sought-after venues of the capital. From one project to the next, he is always driven by new possibilities and even if he can't rely, at first sight, on past experience to achieve these new goals, they have always propelled him a step further... Sketch being a prime example.
Thanks to the worldwide recognition this project brouhgt him, he created in 2003 his own creative studio, Neonata, meaning "New Birth". In 2005, he aimed at a dramatic makeover for the high-end gastronomic restaurant Senderens. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious "Créateur de l'Année" prize by Maison&Objets, designed the new interiors of the Maya Bar, Monaco, the Maison Sénéquier, Saint-Tropez, the new visual and architectural identity of Air France's business class lounges.
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance always manages to instil his creations with fluid and airy lines. Finding his inspiration in nature. The furniture pieces he designed for Ceccotti appear as an elegant mix of intertwined curved lines and ramifications. He also designed a light piece for Baccarat and a collection of furniture for Zanotta.
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance continues to aim at his definition of "essentiality" by creating meaningful objects and designing spaces that tell a story. He is putting these aimes into practice in his current project, the design of a new hotel in Marrakech.

Goudji Le Magicien d'or

Both sculptor and goldsmith of Gregorian origins, Goudji was born in 1941 in Borjomi in the country of the Golden Fleece. Since his arrival in Paris in 1974, he exhibits in France as well as around the world. The wonderful bull-headed bowl was his first work in sterling silver. His singular &ldquohollow-beating" technique revived from ancient time reminds the work of extinct civilizations: Scythians, Hittites or Etruscans... In this book you will find over two hundreds pieces reflecting the incredible creativity of Goudji mixing contemporary art and ancient civilizations.

&ldquoGoudji: Le Magicien d&rsquoor&rdquo Text by Jacques Santrot &ndash Ed. Gourcuff Gradenigo &ndash 2007 &ndash 128 p.