Harper's Monthly of April 1889 featured a black & white drawing of the #Absinthe Professors who sit at marble tables, drink absinthe & are invariably “decorated.”As part of our #ArtOfAbsinthe programme, we added colour, motion and fine absinthe. Harper's is now Harpers magazine.
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Possibly the only surviving video of a pre-ban Swiss absinthe distillery? This is the Edouard Pernod distillery in Couvet c.1894.

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#ToulouseLautrec painted “Monsieur Boileau at the Café” in 1893. Boileau was a gossip columnist who drank a lot of #absinthe. We demonstrate here his love of gossip & absinthe. If he had had access to better absinthe, he might have savoured it more and drank less heavily.

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Filmed at the Louvre last week. Good to see the Louvre had better security for my bottle. Maybe the film will help the police catch all the men who stole the jewels … #absinthe #AbsintheInspired

These 3 were seen enjoying clandestine #absinthe in Switzerland c. 1950. Soon after I was born: it could have been me! We imagined the scene in more detail. They may have had to hide the illegal bottles. We then added a bit of colour so you can see bottles of my blanche and green absinthes. Santé!

Paul Gauguin’s “Dans un café à Arles” depicts the cafe Van Gogh painted. The owner has a glass of absinthe, with syphon and sugar cubes. In the background sit Van Gogh’s postman-friend and 3 prostitutes. This #AbsintheInspired (AI) version brings the scene to life!

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It’s 115 years since the #absinthe ban in Switzerland. Now that Swiss absinthe has been legal for over 20 years, we decided to update this historic poster and give it a happier ending for the Green Fairy! This is our version of AI. Or #AbsintheInspirée.”

Great to see the #absinthe selection at Les Caves du Roy in Paris. La Clandestine (Blanche, Intense and Verte) as well as Butterfly. Great photos by Darian who also bought the last bottle of our La Crème! Santé!

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Our favourite Valentine’s Day couple: distillers Claude-Alain and Karine Bugnon. The husband and wife team behind every bottle of #LaClandestine #absinthe. Santé!