True luxury is

Being deeply in my values, new thinking and vision of “ True luxury is ”

True luxury is to surround with people we share the same values and the same vision with respect and mutual love
True luxury is innated and invisible elegance and refinement
True luxury is silence and dream to innovate the quest for harmony and meaning
True luxury is time both ending and never ending, timeless and precious enchantment with care and wisdom
True luxury is to stay consistent, free, sincere and authentic
True luxury is to be happy to make people happy

The Legend of Kintsugi

“ The word Kintsugi comes from the Japanese Kin (gold) and Tsugi (join), and therefore literally means: join with gold. The art of Kintsugi is called Kintsukuroi, meaning “mending with gold”.

This ancient technique, discovered in the fifteenth century in Japan, invites us to repair a broken object by enhancing its scars with real gold powder, instead of trying to hide them. This is a long and extremely accurate repairing process, with many steps, taking several weeks or even months. It is even said that it sometimes takes a whole year to achieve the best Kintsugi…

The Kintsugi technique, step by step : The shards of the broken object are first assembled one by one, then cleaned, and glued with a traditional natural lacquer derived from the tree lacquer tree . The object is set to dry and then sanded. Then its cracks are underlined by successive lacquer layers and, finally, sprinkled with gold, or any other metal powder, which, mingling intimately with the moist lacquer, gives the illusion of flowing metal. Then the gold scars are burnished.

The object can then reveal all its brilliance”.
Dear Friends,
Let us live a new way of life, join with gold… even more precious, sensitive, sense of solidarity and sharing… with the traces of our lived experiences…

Life is ;
Understanding, which gives liberty…
• Getting out of comfort zone, which gives challenges…
• Adapting, which gives empathy…

and then,
• Concentrate to the next steps, which gives innovation…
• Acting intelligently, which gives peace…

Meltem Etcheberry – 05/2020

ME ► WE

During Covid period :

I am thinking of you & family and hope you all are safe & well…
Take good care… Be carefully

For my side, I think this is a major event that has an impact on the whole world. Beyond what is happening on the medical and scientific level, I feel that a new page of history is opening up to us…
It is true that when we do not know, it can be very worrying, overwhelming, even upsetting.
But, at the same time, it is good to think to gether about our future and how to make it more human, more natural, more ecological, more interactive, more sustainable, more exchange, more solidarity… with love and intelligence…
This event has clearly remined us that the world is organic and that the ego has no more reason to exist…
It also showed us that very quickly, the “ME ” must become the “WE”…
This is how we will be able to move forward together for the good of all being and protect the nature of our world…
I also thought that the exchange of ideas, projects, data is more important than ever for living together, for cooperation, innovation and progress in the right direction. Sharing is vital…
Please take care of yourself and your beloved ones… allow, as much as you can, your time for friendly, artistic and digital sharings…
Warmly,
Meltem