Diptyque has this week announced the creation of the Diptyque Foundation.
Faithful to the spirit of its founders, the Diptyque Foundation is driven by the conviction that the Arts and Nature are fertile grounds for prompting the power of imagination, feeding creativity and shaping a better future.
The Diptyque Foundation mission is to encourage and cultivate imagination at the heart of society. It is committed to Nature and the Arts – vectors of positive transformation serving the common good.
The Diptyque Foundation initiates an ambitious five-year plan across three main axes:
– protecting and preserving our botanical heritage and diversity,
– promoting artistic research to inspire change,
– fostering reconnection with nature and the living world.
Among the initial programs, starting in 2025:
The Foundation becomes a benefactor and patron of the Herbier national du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, to help preserve and promote this exceptional scientific heritage.
The Foundation partners with the École nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles to create a new sector dedicated to the art of gardens, aimed at restituting the excellence within the bygone profession of Master Gardener.
The Foundation is committed to supporting and protecting gardens and remarkable botanical spaces, reflecting the poetic and artistic universe of Diptyque:
- It helps restore the Jardin Serre de la Madone in Menton, an Arts and Craftsstyle jewel of the French Riviera.
- It becomes a patron of the gardens of the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici and its heritage landscape combining art and nature, and also co-create a residency dedicated to the art of the garden.
- Through “Les Petits Apprentis du Vivant” (The Little Apprentices of the Living), the Diptyque Foundation is committed to fighting “plant amnesia” by raising public awareness –particularly among younger generations– on the richness of Diptyque’s botanical heritage and the vital importance of biodiversity. The Foundation will collaborate with associations or organisations dedicated to that specific cause.
Laurence Semichon, President of the Diptyque Foundation, said: “Through the Diptyque Foundation, we intend to contribute to a more creative, more human and more sustainable future.
“A catalyst for emotion and reflection, the Foundation invites each and every person to rediscover the beauty of the natural world, where art is in dialogue with nature.”
