Creation of a beautiful boat. Speaking with Marc Vuilliomenet – Charpentier de Marine, MV-Boat

Wooden boat specialized shipyard, MV Boat updates yachting and makes its technical quiet revolution! Showing her electrical Classic Power , aptly named Evolution, MV Boat makes some noise in the world of yachting. Designed and handcrafted by Marc Vuilliomenet, Master Craftsman, this first model of its kind was conceived as a matrix to test alternative energy. … Read more

Smart Cocoon: Prospective Innovation Space at 1,618 Sustainable Luxury Fair

They anticipate things to come and create an exciting future. 1,618 Sustainable Luxury Fair gathered the visionary talents in the “Prospective Innovation Space”. This section of the Parisian event dedicated to sustainable luxury development allows visitors to grasp the planetary challenges ahead, through prospective, inspirational and discovery installations. The By Volta agency, specialized in sensory … Read more

The gaze of artists on water: art exhibition at 1,618 Sustainable Luxury Fair 2012

Every year the 1,618 Sustainable Luxury Fair in Paris dedicates an important space to a contemporary art exhibition that presents art works and artists’ points of view on issues of consumption and sustainable development. After 2 previous editions focused on consumption and urban issues, the art exhibit curated by commissioner Lauranne Germond in cooperation with … Read more

Sustainable floating Island(E)Motion by MCM design studio

Island Paradise Superyacht MCM design studio brought to the 2012 edition of 1,618 Sustainable luxury fair in Paris the ISLAND(E)MOTION concept, a revolutionary yacht based on green technologies, advanced sustainable materials & alternative energy solutions. The sustainable island superyacht is a floating paradise, part luxury yacht, part responsibile vessel of the future designed to have … Read more

From the future in the present. BMW’s sustainable vision of urban mobility at 1,618 Paris

i8 and i3: BMW’s sustainable vision of urban mobility The third edition of 1,618 Sustainable Luxury Fair (March 29th – April 1st, Cite de la Mode et du Design in Paris) was the perfect occasion for BMW to present its innovative, sustainable solutions and visionary mobility embodied by BMW i8 and i3 concepts. With the … Read more

Speaking about luxury with Barbara Coignet – CEO 1.618 Sustainable Luxury

1.618 is a mathematical ratio that defines the divine proportion, a universal key to harmony that originates in nature and provides a formula at the service of aesthetics. It is a definition in symbiosis with the positioning of the event. 1.618 is a unique event, multidisciplinary, pioneering and innovative, at the crossroads of different worlds. … Read more