Culture

Screentime: Padma Lakshmi’s Mission to Elevate Food & Culture Across Screens Padma Lakshmi, Host & Executive Producer, Taste the Nation discusses the importance of elevating food and food culture across screens and why she’s set out to create a new type of reality food show bringing immigrants and indigenous communities into focus with Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde, Anchor, Bloomberg Television at Bloomberg Screentime in Los Angeles. Genre: Business, Food, Culture Duration: 00:11:34 Rights: Inflight & Transportation – Worldwide, TV/VOD – EMEA For all licensing enquiries and screeners, please contact us HERE This website contains material which is owned by or licensed ...

Chenonceau: Royals of the River In the heart of France, an extraordinary building has been standing for five centuries: The Château de Chenonceau, the only castle in the world to achieve the architectural feat of spanning a river thanks to an iconic bridge. From the building technique of the bridge’s columns to the symmetric and finely decorated façades, to the ingenious spiral staircases, the stunning luminosity, and the gallery connecting the two riverbanks, these flamboyant elements are testaments to the skill level of the visionary engineers who built the Château de Chenonceau as eras went by. Initially a fortified mill, ...

Chartres Cathedral: Story of a Masterpiece Some 80 kilometers from Paris stands Chartres Cathedral, a building that’s over 800 years old and the secrets of which are only starting to be unveiled by today’s experts. It’s a medieval superstructure, one of the first Gothic cathedrals in history, wider and taller than Notre-Dame de Paris. At the time it was erected, it was the highest building in the world after the Pyramids. In Chartres, everything is out of the ordinary: The dimensions, for one, but also the speed of construction. How could such a colossal undertaking be completed in less than ...