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What if true luxury were silence?
MODE SILENCE brings together what protects your silence, what thinks it through, and what speaks of it well — carefully chosen objects, essential books, chronicles written with rigor.
The Selection
Few objects, but chosen with care. What we recommend, we’ve tested or studied — no filler.
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AirPods Max
Apple’s most accomplished noise cancellation, for those who want silence without compromising on anything else.
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Bose QC Ultra
A long-standing benchmark in active noise cancellation, still hard to match on depth of silence achieved.
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Sony WH-1000XM6
The finest balance between everyday comfort and ambient noise suppression.
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Loop
Discreet, reusable, designed for portable everyday silence rather than total isolation.
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Flare Calmer
A different approach: soften rather than isolate completely, so you stay present while filtering.
The Books
A short library rather than a catalogue. Ten titles worth reading once, then reading again.
/Philosophy of Silence
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Histoire du silence
Alain Corbin
Silence isn’t an emptiness to fill, but a territory to explore. Corbin traces its history back to the Renaissance — scholarly without being dry.
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Point de silence
Nicolas Monseu
A short text that goes straight to the point: what if silence weren’t the opposite of speech, but its other face?
/Contemplative Practices
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Silence
Erling Kagge
A polar explorer who walked alone to the South Pole explains why you can’t sit still for five minutes without a notification.
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Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
Thich Nhat Hanh
The monk who turned silence into a discipline rather than a deprivation.
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A Book of Silence
Sara Maitland
She left a noisy life to settle alone in the Highlands. This book tells what she found there — and it wasn’t the peace she expected.
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The Art of Stillness
Pico Iyer
A globe-trotting journalist makes the case, against his own profession’s grain, for staying still. Short and effective.
/Attention and Solitude
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Solitude: A Return to the Self
Anthony Storr
Solitude isn’t a social failure. It’s a skill — and Storr, a psychiatrist, makes the case with rigor.
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Nos silences : apprendre à les écouter
Laurence Joseph
What our silences leave unsaid often speaks louder than our words.
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Un si grand désir de silence
Anne Le Maître
A literary stroll rather than a treatise. The right book for those who find essays too dry.
Without a Word
Chronicles on silence as posture, as social signal, as tool — never as a wellness concept.
/First article — coming soon
Why Noise Became a Status Symbol
Replying fast, being everywhere, never letting a silence settle in a meeting: what this constant agitation says about us, and why stepping away from it is becoming a luxury.
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