Victorine Vien's ActiveRain Blog

When I was younger, I dreamt of visiting Japan to see the cherry blossoms blooming. I learned about Japanese art history. I loved the aesthetic concepts of "wabi-sabi" and "mono no aware", which related art to the concept of imperfection and impermanence of life. Wabi-sabi referred to the beauty ...

The ongoing Cannes Film Festival got me thinking about my trip to Cannes recently. It was so interesting to see pictures of stars on the red carpet, near the streets that I walked in Cannes! It’s one of the most magical things about traveling the world—the feeling that the world becomes smaller s...

I was in Europe recently and stayed at the cutest French flat in the South of France. It made me so happy that I started to think about what I wanted my future home to have. German WindowsOne of the things I loved most while staying in Germany was how they designed homes with windows that pull do...