“But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home
To a leaky castle across the sea, -
To lie awake in linen smelling of lavender,
And hear the nightingale, and long for me.”
To a leaky castle across the sea, -
To lie awake in linen smelling of lavender,
And hear the nightingale, and long for me.”
Edna St Vincent Millay
For Foxy any launch
by Bogue Profumo and the bearded Maestro Antonio Gardoni is akin to the
completion of a complex and long awaited art installation or the revelation of
a secret building project. All of which is very fitting given Antonio’s day job
as the creative founder of Studio AG an architecture and design studio in
Brescia, Italy where he grew up and went to university. He is currently London-based
but spends a lot of time back and forth to Brescia where he is still a
professor of industrial and interior design.
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Everything about
Antonio and Bogue is steeped in alchemical charm. He originally came across a
cache of forty vintage perfumery bases and formulations in the basement of an
Italian property thanks to the timely tip off from an antique dealer. These
redolent recipes had assumed a whiff of dank time and darkness. Antonio
patiently and strategically added modern elements, honing and editing the
results to create workable and intriguing olfaction.