LA BULLE - September 2025

A break, a moment to take our minds off things and share our discoveries...

#1 Robert Doisneau - Given Moments

Nearly 400 original prints, a handful of personal items, a few letters, and a selection of rarely seen archives. At the Musée Maillol, Robert Doisneau's stolen moments are presented in a delicate setting, balancing chronology and theme.

Organized around major creative periods, the exhibition traces the career of a photographer who never ceased to capture the poetry of everyday life. From portraits of artists to his escapades through the streets of Paris, each image bears witness to a tender, mischievous, and profoundly human perspective. We encounter Prévert, Picasso, and Giacometti, but above all, a host of anonymous individuals captured in the moment—a discreet tribute to the beauty of simple things.

A meeting to (re)discover a look, an era, a way of loving reality without artificializing it, from April 17 to October 12, 2025 at the Musée Maillol.

#2 Dunhill Powder Compact-Lighter

In the 1930s, Alfred Dunhill designed an object at the crossroads of worlds: a powder compact set with a mirror, housing a powder compartment and a perfectly integrated petrol lighter. A precious silhouette, designed to fit in the palm of the hand, somewhere between a minaudière and a goldsmith's mechanism.

Behind its dual function lies an art of living, that of an era when one lit a cigarette with a careful gesture, between two touch-ups of powder. More than an accessory, a miniature ceremonial, revealing another idea of luxury: that of the unnecessary necessary.

#3 Leisure

Guitars that stretch out like afternoons without a date, a bass that's as round as the end of a summer day. Halfway between soul, funk, and psychedelic pop, the band Leisure creates music of quiet elegance.

Hailing from Auckland, this New Zealand collective cultivates the art of a hushed groove and controlled letting go. Neither calibrated hits nor over-the-top effects, but a succession of textures and rhythms that take their time.

Listen to it on repeat, windows half-open, between a novel that you never finish and a cocktail that you don't drink too quickly.

#4 Floating Second Hand

On the models in the Seconde Française collection , a hand unlike any other catches the eye. Placed on the periphery of the dial, with no visible attachment in its center, the second hand seems to defy the laws of mechanics—suspended, almost weightless. This flying seconds hand is not a complication per se, but a shift in the rotation point of the seconds hand.

To the eye, the effect is almost hypnotic and gives the watch that touch of "je ne sais quoi" that attracts without explaining.

But behind this apparent lightness lies a meticulous technical feat. An ultra-thin disc cut with a die, fixed on a custom-made axis whose dimensions have been expertly calculated to ensure balance and transparency. Then comes the application of pad printing directly onto the disc, requiring perfect control of the paint's viscosity to avoid any deformation.