The literary pharmacy of Arielle Dombasle
Intellectual Parisiennes who like to cultivate their unique look by feeding their minds with beautiful things will appreciate it.
Created by the editor Sophie Wiesenfeld, the literary pharmacy appears as an unidentified poetic object claimed as such by its founder. Each month, a feather or an author (Amanda Sthers, David Foenkinos…) concocts a literary prescription.
A gift that should be reimbursed by social security!
To celebrate Christmas in a gentle way and treat the sores in the soul, it needed the ultimate muse and pop icon to concoct a prescription of joy and good reading. In short: the perfect gift to offer yourself in winter to curl up with chic and style under your duvet or in front of a fireplace.
Arielle Dombasle's soft medicine feels good, it gives EMPIRE, an electro album co-produced with Nicolas Ker, inspired by David Bowie, Jim Morrison and Nick Cave to sign a resolutely cool musical atmosphere and get down to good reading, with a cup Arielle Dombasle's favorite tea by hand.
First there are Fragments of a Love Discourse by Roland Barthes. We can never say it enough: a “necessary” book that questions love and reason, experiments with the relativity of feelings and breaks the coherence of our pre-established thoughts on the feeling of love.
For a touch of cheerfulness and intelligence, Arielle slipped into her box the collection of poems by Man'ha Garreau Dombasle, writer and poet, friend of Paul Claudel, Ray Bradbury, Marx Ernst, Isadora Duncan and Tamara de Lempicka.
The icing on the cake: a bottle of Le Secret d'Ariel by Mauboussin, an exquisite fragrance designed in Grasse based on natural flowers of rose, iris and musk that pays homage to French know-how and the elegance of French haute perfumery .
On sale online or in store: at the Librairie Lamartine, 118 rue de la Pompe, Paris 16th; at Drugstore Publicis, 133 avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris 8th; at the bookstore L'Ecume des Pages, 174 boulevard St Germain, Paris 6th
